Monte Desai

Monte’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (0)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (559)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
my-recommendations-books‎ (494)
my-favorite-horrors‎ (151)
my-favorite-life-changing-books‎ (146)
my-favorite-thrillers‎ (133)

my-favorite-mythology-books‎ (112)
100-books-to-read-before-dying‎ (101)
my-favorite-sci-fi-books‎ (101)
my-favorite-fiction-books‎ (90)
my-favorite-religious-books‎ (87)
my-favorite-classics‎ (56)
my-favorite-adventure-books‎ (47)
my-favorite-crime-fiction-books‎ (43)

my-favorite-scariest-books‎ (41)
my-favorite-historical-fictions‎ (26)
my-favorite-creature-books‎ (20)
my-most-boring-books‎ (20)
the-great-american-read‎ (17)
my-favorite-non-fiction-books‎ (10)
my-favorite-short-story-collection‎ (9)
my-favorite-western-books‎ (7)

my-favorite-graphic-books‎ (6)
my-favorite-history-books‎ (6)
my-favorite-romance-books‎ (6)
my-favorite-time-traveling-books‎ (4)
my-favorite-biographies‎ (3)
my-favorite-poem-like-books‎ (2)
my-favorite-fairy-tale-books‎ (0)

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“پێشکەشە بەو شۆخەی کە پێی گوتم:
چوار ساڵە خۆشم دەوێیت‌و دەتدوێنم‌و لیم تێناگەی
پێم گوت: منیش چوار ساڵە خۆشم دەوێیت‌و ناوێرم پێت بڵێم...
و سوپاسی ئازایەتیت دەکەم کە تۆ وێرایت پێم بڵێی...
تکا دەکەم لە گوناحی ئەم چوار ساڵەم ببوورە”
― Latif Halmatt

5 likes

“She discovered how distant pity was from hate, how very far it was from love.”
― Robert Cormier, We All Fall Down

tags: teenage-loss

18 likes

“ڕەنگی مەرگ
دوا ڕەنگی ئەم ڕەنگدانە و
ڕەنگەکانی تەماشای من

..لە نادیارا ڕەنگێک چاوەڕێی من ئەکا
ڕەنگێ تێکەڵ لە ڕەنگی گڵ و
...سەراب و بیرچوونەوە و نەهێنیی خوا”
― Sherko Bekas, شێرکۆ بێکەس

7 likes

“It was the worst--the bleakest, the most physically exhausting, the most emotionally enervating--writing experience I'd had...I felt, and feared, that the book was controlling me, somehow, as if I'd somehow become possessed by it.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

tags: writing, writing-process, writing-quotes

8 likes

“I’m no cactus expert, but I know a prick when I see one.”
― Mark A. Cooper, Royal Decree

tags: funny, humor, prick, rude-quote, schoolboy-quote, witty-comebacks

410 likes

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