214 ratings (3.46 avg)
69 reviews

Leslie

Add friend

http://lesliekeyna.wordpress.com

https://www.goodreads.com/lesliekeyna

Leslie’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (42)
currently-reading‎ (8)

read‎ (214)
couldn-t-finish‎ (2)

set-aside‎ (1)

Stats | More…

Leslie is Currently Reading

Leslie is currently reading

The First Book: Hunter-Gatherers, God and Spirituality (The Philosophy of Order)

by Eloheem Ali

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

Apr 25, 2024 08:52AM

Leslie is currently reading

The Goldfinch

by Donna Tartt

bookshelves: currently-reading, couldn-t-finish

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

progress:

(page 0 of 771)
— Dec 28, 2014 08:41PM

Jul 17, 2023 10:09AM

Leslie is currently reading

Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

by Elizabeth Lesser (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, set-aside

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

Jul 17, 2023 10:11AM

See all 8 books that Leslie is reading…

Leslie’s Quotes

“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

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

130246 likes

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

128961 likes

“Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

1261 likes

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein

64687 likes

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

44332 likes

More of Leslie’s quotes…

Downtown Book Club — 76 members — last activity Jun 15, 2020 07:21AM
Book Club in the Kansas City, Mo., area (based in Downtown Lee's Summit), which began in January 2004. Meet once a month and discuss two books from al ...more

The Nexus — 1103 members — last activity Jan 17, 2026 01:51PM
Book Group - All Genre's: Action and Adventure,Chick Lit,Fiction, Contemporary,Crime,Fantasy,Horror,Humour,Women's Fictions,Literary Fiction,Mystery,R ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22561 members — last activity 9 hours, 34 min ago
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

Making Connections — 14805 members — last activity Feb 09, 2026 01:04AM
Read, Review, and Make Connections

Colorful Chick Lit Challenge — 566 members — last activity Jul 26, 2023 02:54PM
This group's goal is to read chick lit that features women of color. ...more

More of Leslie’s groups…