Colin Jack

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Colin Jack.

https://bsky.app/profile/literarycolin.bsky.social
https://www.goodreads.com/literarycolin

Strange Buildings
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
To the Lighthouse
Colin Jack is currently reading
Reading for the 2nd time
read in July 2024
Rate this book
Clear rating

Colin Jack Colin Jack said: " Virginia Woolf captures something almost impossible here. The way time passes inside a mind. The way love, resentment, grief, and longing can coexist. The way a single afternoon can feel infinite, while ten years can vanish in a sentence.

To the Light
...more "

progress: 
 
  (90%)
Jul 18, 2024 12:45PM

 
The Good Soldier:...
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (25%)
Jan 03, 2026 04:08PM

 
See all 8 books that Colin Jack is reading…
Loading...
“I know people would have liked me to say: You’re not going to die, I’ll save you. And not because I would have actually saved them, done my job, done the necessary, sent rescue. Not because I’d done what you’re meant to do. They wanted me to have said it, at least to have said it, just to have said the words. That was what the investigator was waiting for anxiously, for everyone to hear, to hear their own voice in mine in these recordings. The voice of each of us saying I will save you. Each one in my place. The voice of the whole of humanity reassured to hear itself saying, uttering the words: I will save you; you will not die – not actually saving, no one cares about that, not acting, not even helping. But at least saying it, because to fail to say those words is to be less than human. In the end, whether they drowned or not didn’t matter; what mattered were my words. What mattered was not that they were saved; it was that I should be saved, and the whole world with me, through these words. Saved by my own words, not condemned by them.”
Vincent Delecroix, Small Boat

“Some men are happiest when they don't have to move an inch from their hearths. But for some of us, to sit still is to feel the weight of six feet of earth on our chests.”
Deepa Anappara, The Last of Earth

“...the sea was always with me. There it lay, the entire length of my journey, on my right, poisoned. There were the terns and the gulls, the greyness, the pallid light, the sea with its guts glutted with women and children. Sometimes, despite the fatigue of the night shift, I had to stop on the way, park the car by the roadside and walk to the edge of the cliff to look at it: the progression of cargo ships, their hypnotic slowness, and it, at my feet, in front of me, lifeless, enormous, malign. Universal and monstrous. It’s the one thing that never sleeps.”
Vincent Delecroix, Small Boat

“…I’ll say: Hey, jerk, see that guy sleeping in a cardboard box at the foot of your building? He’s rowing across the tarmac, he’s sinking too. But he’s not dozens of kilometres out at sea, at dead of night, he is quite easy to geolocate, he’s just in front of your feet. So are you going to send him help or is that my job again?”
Vincent Delecroix, Small Boat

“...the air we breathe in is another’s dying breath.”
Vincent Delecroix, Small Boat

967 Apocalypse Whenever — 14049 members — last activity 5 minutes ago
The most active group for apocalyptic and dystopian stories! Join a monthly book discussion, get recommendations, or just tell us if you like canned p ...more
220 Goodreads Librarians Group — 331708 members — last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
1202278 Red Scare Book Club — 701 members — last activity 3 hours, 39 min ago
r/rsbookclub
596 Audiobooks — 16705 members — last activity 3 hours, 11 min ago
Audio & audiobooks are getting more and more popular for commuters & those wanting to squeeze in another book or two a month while doing other activit ...more
93888 NetGalley Readers — 6656 members — last activity 2 hours, 49 min ago
This is a group for those who participate in NetGalley.com to discuss the books that they have been reading from the website, share helpful hints, and ...more
More of Colin Jack’s groups…
year in books
Arielle
2,349 books | 107 friends

Chris Via
4,038 books | 1,453 friends

Luke Pete
4,205 books | 107 friends

Everett
209 books | 8 friends

Matthew...
2,163 books | 585 friends

Gregory
1,010 books | 124 friends

DSV
DSV
268 books | 38 friends

Ramblin...
2,073 books | 263 friends

More friends…
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Best Books Ever
78,990 books — 294,133 voters




Polls voted on by Colin Jack

Lists liked by Colin Jack