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…
Book cover for In Memoriam
Morphine made the vast sweep of history more logical to him than the chaotic present, which had not yet shaped itself into meaning. In his mind, he saw empires rise and fall like the swelling and abating of the tide, perpetual, each society ...more
Loading...
Bernard M. Baruch
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
Bernard M. Baruch

Cormac McCarthy
“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.”
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

Rainer Maria Rilke
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Italo Calvino
“If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.”
Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

967 Apocalypse Whenever — 14049 members — last activity 11 hours, 40 min 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 — 331684 members — last activity 2 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 0 minutes ago
r/rsbookclub
596 Audiobooks — 16704 members — last activity 14 hours, 4 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 — 6655 members — last activity 1 hour, 46 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
78,989 books — 294,126 voters




Polls voted on by Colin Jack

Lists liked by Colin Jack