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“Ugh! Men!” she groans. “No emotional vocabulary. I can’t believe our ancestors survived centuries of wars and plagues and genocide just to wind up with your sorry ass.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

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“People on the streets are dehumanized the same way settlers dehumanized the Indigenous, to steal the land of abundance at gunpoint, to tax the land to the fullest.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

tags: indigenous, streets

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“The desire to trot it out as one of our greatest literary achievements does not preclude the fact that Bram Stoker was gay as the day is long, and that Dracula is essentially a work of queer erotica. If anything, that makes the book even more important!”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

tags: dracula, gay, vampires

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“I wish I was a viscount," June says. "I could have my sex waifs deal with my emails.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

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“In the tales, she has no name, like too many women in stories of old.”
― Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night

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¡ POETRY ! — 22560 members — last activity Feb 10, 2026 08:48PM
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

Victorians! — 3779 members — last activity 46 minutes ago
Some of the best books in the world were written and published in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901. What's not to love? Dickens, the Brontes, Co ...more

The Life of a Book Addict — 12133 members — last activity Feb 14, 2026 09:36AM
We now read at "On the Same Page." ...more

Ink in My Veins — 182 members — last activity Jun 28, 2011 09:48AM
This group is for everyone who has ink running through their veins, who wouldn't be able to live without writing or reading. Anyone is welcome to join ...more

Jane Austen — 5342 members — last activity 3 hours, 27 min ago
Established July 2007. Readers of Jane, gather here to discuss anything from Frank Churchill's secrets to Lady Catherine's whims. What finally "persua ...more

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