Julia

Julia’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (675)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (839)
partially-read‎ (87)
not-interested‎ (18)
reference‎ (14)
ongoing-reading‎ (6)
maybe-someday‎ (5)
owned‎ (394)
kids-library‎ (321)
novels‎ (126)
series‎ (66)

mysteries‎ (52)
wheaton‎ (42)
kids‎ (40)
tintin‎ (28)
apologetics‎ (22)
brain-candy‎ (21)
sentimental‎ (20)
philosophy‎ (14)
cornerstone_fellows‎ (12)
discipleship‎ (12)
gifts‎ (12)
babies-library‎ (11)

cook-books‎ (10)
author‎ (8)
bibles‎ (8)
parenting‎ (7)
kindle-owned‎ (6)
language‎ (6)
web_development‎ (6)
self_help‎ (5)
fiction‎ (4)
health‎ (4)
nature‎ (4)
coffee_table_book‎ (3)

cornerstone_book_club‎ (3)
newberry‎ (3)
psychology‎ (3)
relationships‎ (3)
wishlist‎ (3)
dickens‎ (2)
guides‎ (2)
library-copy-on-hold‎ (2)
lw_bookclub‎ (2)
piano_lessons‎ (2)
sounds_interesting‎ (2)
travel‎ (2)

Stats | More…

“Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

tags: books, character-development, growth, reading

253 likes

“And so liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner, for the slight fog it diffused in his brain.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

6 likes

“Darya Alexandrovna made no reply. She suddenly felt that she had got far away from Anna; that there lay between them a barrier of questions on which they could never agree, and about which it was better not to speak.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: friendship, worldview

3 likes

“This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.”
― William Blake

191 likes

“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

tags: books, reading, understanding

815 likes

More of Julia’s quotes…