Alethea

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Alethea.

http://www.aletheajoy.com
https://www.goodreads.com/aletheajoy

Knick Knack Paddy...
Alethea is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Stalin's Empire o...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Ukrainians: U...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 5 books that Alethea is reading…
Loading...
C.S. Lewis
“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
C.S. Lewis

F. Scott Fitzgerald
“There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless.”
Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

Christopher  Morley
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”
Christopher Morley

John Green
“Yeah, about the test...

The test will measure whether you are an informed, engaged, and productive citizen of the world, and it will take place in schools and bars and hospitals and dorm rooms and in places of worship. You will be tested on first dates, in job interviews, while watching football, and while scrolling through your Twitter feed. The test will judge your ability to think about things other than celebrity marriages, whether you’ll be easily persuaded by empty political rhetoric, and whether you’ll be able to place your life and your community in a broader context. The test will last your entire life, and it will be comprised of the millions of decisions that, when taken together, will make your life yours. And everything, everything, will be on it.

...I know, right?”
John Green

F. Scott Fitzgerald
“the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humour. Then more details are required and one paints a second portrait, and a third – before long the best lines cancel out – and the secret is exposed at last; the planes of the pictures have intermingled and given us away, and though we paint and paint we can no longer sell a picture. We must be satisfied with hoping that such fatuous accounts of ourselves as we make to our wives and children and business associates are accepted as true”
F Scott Fitzgerald

year in books
Autumn ...
1,189 books | 87 friends

Brenna
967 books | 124 friends

FJohn R...
604 books | 140 friends

Brittany
70 books | 44 friends

Matt
74 books | 34 friends

Pete
188 books | 11 friends

Stefanie
71 books | 13 friends

Natalie
492 books | 8 friends

More friends…


Polls voted on by Alethea

Lists liked by Alethea