Alison Brady

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


Life: A User's Ma...
Alison Brady is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
How We Read: Tale...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Book cover for The Sea Close By
What man who cherishes the sea and loneliness will ever stop himself from loving these obstinate madmen who, clinging to planks and tossed by the mane of immense oceans, chase after islands long adrift?
Loading...
James Joyce
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”
James Joyce

Jean-Paul Sartre
“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
Jean-Paul Sartre

Italo Calvino
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

Charles Margrave Taylor
“We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for instance—and they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live.”
Charles Taylor, Multiculturalism

Nikos Kazantzakis
“Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself to an idea, to a race, to God? Or does it mean that the higher the model the longer the tether of our slavery? Then we can enjoy ourselves and frolic in a more spacious arena and die without having come to the end of the tether. Is that, then, what we call liberty?”
Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

189072 EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club — 28223 members — last activity 3 hours, 21 min ago
Click HERE for the latest group announcements. "It reminded me of ____ but in space." "I read ____ in high school, and actually liked it." "It's ...more
year in books
Lisa
2,107 books | 1,184 friends

Irene
720 books | 15 friends

Zita
253 books | 16 friends

shakesp...
2,102 books | 854 friends

Carolin...
821 books | 26 friends

Heather...
133 books | 33 friends

Esther
165 books | 57 friends

Gráinne...
14 books | 16 friends

More friends…
The Stranger by Albert CamusThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde1984 by George OrwellOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Best Books Ever
76,217 books — 283,419 voters




Polls voted on by Alison

Lists liked by Alison