Anna

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


Growth of the Soil
Anna is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
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

 
See all 8 books that Anna is reading…
Loading...
Anne Carson
“he stood against the wind and let it peel him
clean”
Anne Carson

T.H. White
“He was standing in the Inner Court, shouting for his enemy. When Guenever saw him, and he saw her, the electric message went between their eyes before they spoke a word. It was as if Elaine and the whole Quest for the Grail had never been. So far as we can make it out, she had accepted her defeat. He must have seen in her eyes that she had given in to him, that she was prepared to leave him to be himself-to love God, and to do whatever he pleased-so long as he was only Lancelot. she was serene and sane again. she had renounced her possessive madness and was joyful to see him living, whatever he did. They were young creatures-the same creatures whose eyes had met with the almost forgotten click of magnets in the smoky Hall of Camelot so long ago. And, in truly yielding, she had won the battle by mistake.”
T.H. White, The Once and Future King

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

George Eliot
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

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

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
Victoria
444 books | 254 friends

Glenn Sumi
1,334 books | 1,386 friends

Megan P...
114 books | 87 friends

Emma
678 books | 128 friends

Mieke
427 books | 126 friends

Lauren ...
23 books | 144 friends

Rachel
3,696 books | 127 friends

Shelby
226 books | 200 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Anna

Lists liked by Anna