Tara Turner

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


Keeping Faith
Tara Turner is currently reading
by Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 181 of 422)
May 25, 2014 01:05PM

 
The Book: On the ...
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (75%)
May 13, 2020 11:21AM

 
See all 18 books that Tara is reading…
Book cover for Liar's Poker
The best decisions he has made in his life, he said, were completely unexpected, the ones that cut against convention.
Loading...
Christopher  Ryan
“many of us have been convinced that we carry the darkness within us, in our selfish genes. “It is simply human nature,” we’re told, “to rape and kill and enslave—and anyone who thinks otherwise is a foolish romantic.” This messaging not only offends our decency and dignity, it insults our intelligence. The depiction of human nature embedded in the NPP isn’t science; it’s a marketing campaign for the status quo.”
Christopher Ryan, Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity

Robyn Davidson
“In different places, survival requires different things, based on the environment. Capacity for survival may be the ability to be changed by environment.”
Robyn Davidson, Tracks: One Woman's Journey Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback

Robyn Davidson
“And so I pushed it all down into the dim recesses of my mind, there to fester and grow like botulism.”
Robyn Davidson, Tracks: One Woman's Journey Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback

Christopher  Ryan
“The NPP insists that we venerate the crooks, rapists, and pillagers credulous historians have repackaged as “founders,” “conquerors,” and “civilizers.” We erect statues and consecrate tombs to commemorate their difference-making. But in fact, most of these monuments memorialize the dark deeds of unhinged lunatics driven by rampant ego and raving greed.”
Christopher Ryan, Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity

Christopher  Ryan
“Upon his first encounters with the native people he “discovered” in the West Indies, Columbus was struck by their kindness, generosity, and physical beauty. In a letter to the king and queen of Spain, he explained: “They are very simple and honest and exceedingly liberal with all they have, none of them refusing anything he may possess when he is asked for it. They exhibit great love toward all others in preference to themselves.” In his own journals, he was even more complimentary: “They are the best people in the world and above all the gentlest—without knowledge of what is evil—nor do they murder or steal… they love their neighbors as themselves and they have the sweetest talk in the world… always laughing.” A few pages on, in one of the most chilling pivots in recorded history, Columbus wrote: “They would make fine servants. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.”
Christopher Ryan, Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity

year in books
betty
0 books | 107 friends

Nick Tu...
1 book | 32 friends

James C...
1 book | 30 friends

Tygan M...
27 books | 84 friends

Heidi S...
11 books | 155 friends

Jestin ...
58 books | 20 friends

Amber O...
64 books | 105 friends

Heidi
32 books | 44 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Tara

Lists liked by Tara