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Monte Desai

Monte’s Bookshelves

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currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (493)
my-recommendations-books‎ (431)
my-favorite-horrors‎ (133)
my-favorite-thrillers‎ (123)
my-favorite-life-changing-books‎ (115)
my-favorite-mythology-books‎ (95)

my-favorite-sci-fi-books‎ (94)
my-favorite-fiction-books‎ (83)
100-books-to-read-before-dying‎ (71)
my-favorite-religious-books‎ (70)
my-favorite-crime-fiction-books‎ (43)
my-favorite-classics‎ (40)
my-favorite-adventure-books‎ (38)
my-favorite-scariest-books‎ (33)

my-favorite-historical-fictions‎ (25)
my-most-boring-books‎ (20)
the-great-american-read‎ (16)
my-favorite-creature-books‎ (15)
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 (5)
my-favorite-biographies‎ (3)
my-favorite-time-traveling-books‎ (3)
my-favorite-poem-like-books‎ (2)
my-favorite-fairy-tale-books‎ (0)

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Monte’s Quotes

“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

412 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

“...we should never grow so old, or change so much, that we cannot find room in our hearts for the wisdom of children's books.”
― Judith Viorst, What the Dormouse Said: Lessons for Grown-ups from Children's Books

21 likes