Lydia

Lydia’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (697)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1350)
did-not-finish‎ (1)
non-fiction‎ (228)
biography-autobiography-memoir‎ (207)
literary-fiction‎ (164)
blacklivesmatter‎ (122)
audiobook-version‎ (115)

young-adult-fiction‎ (58)
historical-fiction‎ (45)
my-favorites‎ (45)
books-about-florida‎ (30)
pulitzer-prize-winners-finalists‎ (27)
asian-american-writers‎ (18)
didn-t-finish-it-dont-plan-to‎ (18)
books-about-horses‎ (16)
historical-fantasy‎ (14)

romance-fiction‎ (13)
books-set-in-india‎ (9)
magical-realism‎ (9)
passion-project‎ (9)
books-about-chicago‎ (8)
health‎ (8)
hispanic-american-writers‎ (8)
speculative-fiction‎ (8)
biography-autobiography‎ (6)

books-set-in-nigeria‎ (6)
poetry-collection‎ (6)
books-set-in-the-middle-east‎ (3)
books-about-detroit‎ (2)
books-set-in-ghana‎ (2)
short-stories‎ (2)
books-set-in-liberia‎ (1)
childrens-book‎ (1)

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Lydia’s Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

tags: books, humor, television

6846 likes

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135889 likes

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

tags: poetry

447 likes

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

tags: life, unfairness

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