Philip Hu

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


Foundation and Em...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Hidden Life o...
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (50%)
Apr 22, 2026 05:57PM

 
Honeysuckle
Philip Hu is currently reading
by Bar Fridman-Tell (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (30%)
Apr 22, 2026 09:04AM

 
See all 79 books that Philip is reading…
Loading...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Muriel Barbery
“I have finally concluded, maybe that's what life is about: there's a lot of despair, but also the odd moment of beauty, where time is no longer the same. It's as if those strains of music created a sort of interlude in time, something suspended, an elsewhere that had come to us, an always within never. Yes, that's it, an always within never.”
Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Annie Dillard
“It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.”
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Italo Calvino
“I speak and speak,” Marco says, “but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. The description of the world to which you lend a benevolent ear is one thing; the description that will go the rounds of the groups of stevedores and gondoliers on the street outside my house the day of my return is another; and yet another, that which I might dictate late in life, if I were taken prisoner by Genoese pirates and put in irons in the same cell with a writer of adventure stories. It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.”
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

Wallace Stegner
“One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.”
Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water

152441 Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge — 26938 members — last activity 2 minutes 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
152458 Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge — 42978 members — last activity 1 hour, 7 min ago
This group is for people participating in the Popsugar reading challenge for 2026 (or any other year). The Popsugar website posted a reading challenge ...more
year in books
Orsodim...
2,515 books | 4,346 friends

Lauree ...
647 books | 99 friends

Gordon
586 books | 55 friends

Chris G...
1,406 books | 68 friends

Chris
231 books | 198 friends

Rachel
448 books | 33 friends

Alison
1,673 books | 105 friends

Adam
729 books | 38 friends

More friends…


Polls voted on by Philip

Lists liked by Philip