1985 ratings (3.22 avg)
147 reviews

Diana

https://www.goodreads.com/diananoblefolk

Diana’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (95)
currently-reading‎ (3)
read‎ (2065)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
partly-read‎ (25)
murder-mysteries‎ (400)
fantasy‎ (264)
books-i-own‎ (213)

historical-fiction‎ (196)
non-fiction‎ (159)
romance‎ (149)
science-fiction‎ (113)
retold-tales‎ (90)
other-fiction‎ (62)
graphic-novels‎ (59)
short-stories‎ (59)

junior‎ (43)
gutenberg‎ (37)
young-adult‎ (29)
to-re-read‎ (25)
to-borrow-ppl‎ (19)
poetry‎ (17)
multicultural‎ (16)
education‎ (12)

to-buy‎ (12)
mcls‎ (9)
on-my-headboard‎ (8)
on-cd-at-ppl‎ (7)
out-of-print‎ (4)

Stats | More…

Diana is Currently Reading

Diana is currently reading

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

by Oliver Sacks

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Mar 26, 2026 02:11PM

Diana is currently reading

A Ghastly Catastrophe (Veronica Speedwell, #10)

by Deanna Raybourn (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, historical-fiction, murder-mysteries

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Mar 14, 2026 07:50PM

Diana is currently reading

The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1)

by Agatha Christie

bookshelves: currently-reading, murder-mysteries

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Jan 25, 2026 04:24PM

“The first thing they would do would be to open my mouth and extract the soggy ball of my handkerchief, and as they spread it out flat on the table beside my white remains, an orange stamp—a stamp belonging to the King—would flutter to the floor: It was like something right out of Agatha Christie.”
― Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

tags: humorous, irony

0 likes

“I have never been among those who think that it is better to be dead than to leave Rome. In fact, I have fled Rome many times in order to preserve my life.”
― John Maddox Roberts, The Temple of the Muses

tags: first-lines, fleeing, humorous, opening-line-of-the-novel, opening-lines, rome, witty

1 likes

“The chanting droned loudly and was not constant, shifting from an almost Gregorian invocation to a twisted yodel, as if someone were driving a steamroller over a crowd of Swiss musicians.”
― Daniel O'Malley, The Rook

tags: humor, simile

0 likes

“My uncle, he used to say there was two Bibles," he said. "Or one, but it been split in half. He said half’s in the book, on paper. But the other half is inside people. You born with it, but it’s up to you to find out. You gotta learn to see it for yourself. That’s the only way.”
― Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead

tags: religion, wisdom

0 likes