473 ratings (4.04 avg)
60 reviews

Maria

Add friend

https://www.goodreads.com/andyet

Maria’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (597)
currently-reading‎ (1)
read‎ (503)

did-not-finish‎ (0)
women‎ (53)
work‎ (27)

food-lit‎ (24)
favorites‎ (15)
2025-to-read‎ (1)

the-writing-life‎ (0)

Stats | More…

Maria is Currently Reading

Maria is currently reading

Fifty Sounds

by Polly Barton

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Jul 25, 2021 01:16PM

“She is the wanderer, bum, émigré, refugee, deportee, rambler, strolling player. Sometimes she would like to be a settler, but curiosity, grief, and disaffection forbid it.”
― Deborah Levy, Swallowing Geography

tags: flâneur

6 likes

“Portugal was the beginning, where I began to notice the things that were missing from the average American dining experience. The large groups of people who ate together. The family element. The seemingly casual cruelty that comes with living close to your food. The fierce resistance to change – if change comes at the expense of traditionally valued dishes. I’d see this again and again, in other countries far from Portugal.”
― Anthony Bourdain

6 likes

“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

tags: travel

429 likes

“As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.”
― Eavan Boland

954 likes

“I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me. Perhaps it was these desperate, bitter men in the West Stand at Arsenal who taught me how to get angry in this way; and perhaps it is why I earn some of my living as a critic – maybe it’s those voices I can hear when I write. ‘You’re a WANKER, X.’ ‘The Booker Prize? THE BOOKER PRIZE? They should give that to me for having to read you.”
― Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch

15 likes

More of Maria’s quotes…