Maurya

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


Book cover for The Uncommon Reader
Norman took not much notice, feeling himself under no such obligation and reading purely for pleasure, not enlightenment, though part of the pleasure was the enlightenment, he could see that.
Loading...
Gabrielle Zevin
“A question I've thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.”
Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin
“When she told me it was her favorite, it suggested to me strange and wonderful things about her character that I had not guessed, dark places that I might like to visit. People tell boring lies about politics, God, and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?”
Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin
“The words you can't find, you borrow.”
Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin
“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where they shouldn't be—basically, gimmicks of any kind. I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful—nonfiction only, please. I do not like genre mash-ups à la the literary detective novel or the literary fantasy. Literary should be literary, and genre should be genre, and crossbreeding rarely results in anything satisfying. I do not like children's books, especially ones with orphans, and I prefer not to clutter my shelves with young adult. I do not like anything over four hundred pages or under one hundred fifty pages. I am repulsed by ghostwritten novels by reality television stars, celebrity picture books, sports memoirs, movie tie-in editions, novelty items, and—I imagine this goes without saying—vampires.”
Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin
Infinite Jest is a masterpiece,” Harvey had said.

Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life,” A.J. had countered. “Style, no substance, my friend.”
Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

year in books
Tushara...
710 books | 99 friends

Vrinda ...
213 books | 273 friends

Flavio
355 books | 15 friends

Danny G...
2,178 books | 36 friends

Barsha ...
499 books | 162 friends

Karthik...
30 books | 78 friends

Gautam ...
10 books | 56 friends

Sreejit...
4 books | 223 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Maurya

Lists liked by Maurya