Anna

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


First Love and Ot...
Anna is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
CivilWarLand in B...
Anna is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Chalk: The Art an...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 7 books that Anna is reading…
Loading...
Anne Carson
“he stood against the wind and let it peel him
clean”
Anne Carson

Leo Tolstoy
“He thought of nothing, wished for nothing, but not to be left behind the peasants, and to do his work as well as possible. He heard nothing but the swish of scythes, and saw before him Tit's upright figure mowing away, the crescent-shaped curve of the cut grass, the grass and flower heads slowly and rhythmically falling before the blade of his scythe, and ahead of him the end of the row, where would come the rest.

Suddenly, in the midst of his toil, without understanding what it was or whence it came, he felt a pleasant sensation of chill on his hot, moist shoulders. He glanced at the sky in the interval for whetting the scythes. A heavy, lowering storm cloud had blown up, and big raindrops were falling. Some of the peasants went to their coats and put them on; others--just like Levin himself--merely shrugged their shoulders, enjoying the pleasant coolness of it.

Another row, and yet another row, followed--long rows and short rows, with good grass and with poor grass. Levin lost all sense of time, and could not have told whether it was late or early now. A change began to come over his work, which gave him immense satisfaction. In the midst of his toil there were moments during which he forgot what he was doing, and it came all easy to him, and at those same moments his row was almost as smooth and well cut as Tit's. But so soon as he recollected what he was doing, and began trying to do better, he was at once conscious of all the difficulty of his task, and the row was badly mown.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
tags: levin

Barbara Kingsolver
“The seat of human emotion should be the liver," Doc Homer said. "That would be an appropriate metaphor: we don't hold love in our hearts, we hold it in our livers."
I understood exactly. Once in ER I saw a woman who'd been stabbed everywhere, most severely in the liver. It's an organ with the consistency of layer upon layer of wet Kleenex. Every attempt at repair just opens new holes that tear and bleed. You try to close the wound with fresh wounds, and you try and you try and you don't give up until there's nothing left.”
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Italo Calvino
“Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's gaze, answer, gesture is enough; it is enough for someone to do something for the sheer pleasure of doing it, and for his pleasure to become the pleasure of others: at that moment, all spaces change, all heights, distances; the city is transfigured, becomes crystalline, transparent as a dragonfly.”
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
tags: art

Jane Austen
“What are men compared to rocks and trees?”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

176349 All The Books In Our Wheelhouse — 19 members — last activity Jan 17, 2016 08:58PM
Because all books should be up for discussion and we should all have a common place to talk about a common book. The idea: One book a month to talk ...more
year in books
Emma
655 books | 129 friends

Mieke
422 books | 126 friends

Rachel
3,633 books | 127 friends

Glenn Sumi
1,332 books | 1,382 friends

Matt Gotta
65 books | 45 friends

Victoria
324 books | 254 friends

Josh Ro...
497 books | 6,485 friends

Peter J...
824 books | 53 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Anna

Lists liked by Anna