Melody

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Melody’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (191)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1007)
did-not-finish‎ (21)
audio‎ (52)
2025‎ (28)
2011‎ (114)
book-club‎ (108)
classics‎ (102)

2012‎ (93)
2015‎ (85)
2013‎ (76)
2016‎ (71)
2014‎ (66)
2010‎ (60)
2018‎ (54)
2017‎ (52)
2009‎ (51)

2019‎ (43)
history-worth-reading‎ (43)
2008‎ (31)
arc‎ (28)
modern-favorites‎ (28)
2024‎ (21)
2023‎ (18)
that-vintage-vibe‎ (18)
2020‎ (17)

2022‎ (17)
ireland‎ (16)
2007‎ (12)
2021‎ (12)
2026‎ (12)
in-the-mountains‎ (9)

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Melody’s Quotes

“I always found Dickens very coarse. I don't want to read about people who drop their aitches.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale

tags: humor

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“All the stories go with you, Franny thought, closing her eyes. All the things I didn't listen to, won't remember, never got right, wasn't around for. All the ways to get to Torrance.”
― Ann Patchett, Commonwealth

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“She had so painfully reared three sons to be Christian gentlemen that one of them had become an Omaha bartender, one a professor of Greek, and one, Cyrus N. Bogart, a boy of fourteen who was still at home, the most brazen member of the toughest gang in Boytown.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

tags: humor

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“Sometimes you can love something not because you instinctively connect with it but because another person does, and keeping their things in your heart takes you back to them.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

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“I left out certain details, but while these were important to me, they would have been to no one else: they were those moments, those parts of life, which are so purely personal and private that you can no more share them than you can share your heart or brain: in all of us there is that small and unsurrenderable core that...well, that in the end determines everything.”
― Edwin O'Connor

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Melody’s Groups

2011 Indie Lit Awards: Fiction Panel — 5 members — last activity Mar 10, 2012 11:21AM
A private group for the members of the 2011 Indie Lit Awards Fiction Panel to discuss the awards.

The Classics Club — 240 members — last activity Jul 02, 2023 12:46PM
This group is made up of members of the Classics Book Club. Members who happen to be part of Goodreads can meet here to share links, post reviews, etc ...more

Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge — 27046 members — last activity 8 hours, 45 min ago
An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more

Book Bloggers — 43 members — last activity Mar 23, 2012 06:34AM
This group is reserved for book bloggers who are interested in the business side of blogging. Here we will share ideas and have conversations about bo ...more