Sign in with Facebook
850 books
—
1,261 voters
Melissa
https://www.goodreads.com/mabsmith
to-read
(577)
currently-reading (1)
read (1177)
did-not-finish (0)
audiobooks (311)
nonfiction-real-real (145)
favorites (87)
did-not-finish-or-dont-recommend (72)
angst-city (59)
fairy-tales-myths-legends-oh-my (56)
currently-reading (1)
read (1177)
did-not-finish (0)
audiobooks (311)
nonfiction-real-real (145)
favorites (87)
did-not-finish-or-dont-recommend (72)
angst-city (59)
fairy-tales-myths-legends-oh-my (56)
rated-nc-17
(51)
high-five-sci-fi (50)
psych-out-psychology-and-selfhelp (44)
laugh-out-loud-funny (39)
graphic-novels-comics (32)
for-my-maybe-someday-offspring (27)
twin-book-club (27)
fave-audio-performances (22)
my-kind-of-leading-man (22)
lets-talk-about-parenting (17)
high-five-sci-fi (50)
psych-out-psychology-and-selfhelp (44)
laugh-out-loud-funny (39)
graphic-novels-comics (32)
for-my-maybe-someday-offspring (27)
twin-book-club (27)
fave-audio-performances (22)
my-kind-of-leading-man (22)
lets-talk-about-parenting (17)
you’ve been told since you learned to talk, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” Now all of a sudden it’s your job to say it. You’ve got to undo a lifetime of training. Management is hard.
“Whether true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on their destinies, as what they do.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.”
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.”
―
―
“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
― Fahrenheit 451
It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
― Fahrenheit 451
Forever Interns Reading Alliance
— 3 members
— last activity Sep 02, 2015 07:02AM
(The name can be changed, haha.) Quarterly-or so book club of awesome, which is actually really an excuse to keep in touch, but also talk about books ...more
Melissa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Melissa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
364 books
|
27 friends
10,470 books
|
1,662 friends
807 books
|
4,797 friends
6,182 books
|
1,615 friends
3,882 books
|
124 friends
17,697 books
|
2,361 friends
2,622 books
|
4,536 friends
628 books
|
74 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Melissa
Lists liked by Melissa
