Pat Norman

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Pat.

https://www.goodreads.com/patnorman

The Power of Geog...
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 118 of 352)
4 hours, 55 min ago

 
The Wisdom of Tea...
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 9 of 352)
Apr 27, 2026 04:46AM

 
Where the Light G...
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 41 of 344)
Apr 27, 2026 04:45AM

 
See all 7 books that Pat is reading…
Loading...
Arundhati Roy
“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.

That is their mystery and their magic.”
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy
“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

Jostein Gaarder
“There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time.”
Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

Jostein Gaarder
“A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.”
Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

Germaine Greer
“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
Germaine Greer

689129 The Dank Street Depot Great Books Course — 5 members — last activity Jul 23, 2018 07:55PM
For people following along the Dank Street Depot Great Books course, started by Pat and Way.
year in books
Emma Gerts
1,067 books | 33 friends

Michele...
594 books | 58 friends

Lady Erin
532 books | 17 friends

Jaime Chew
425 books | 11 friends

David T...
17 books | 34 friends

Julie
832 books | 28 friends

Jen Sonter
125 books | 54 friends

Donherr...
868 books | 211 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Pat

Lists liked by Pat