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Laura Noggle

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Laura is Currently Reading

Laura Noggle is currently reading

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander

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Notes of a Native Son

by James Baldwin

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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

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Laura’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Summer Frost (Forward Collection, #2)

Summer Frost (Forward Collection, #2) by Blake Crouch

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How does anyone know at the moment of discovery where their work will ultimately lead? Should we let that uncertainty stop forward momentum, or do we roll the dice and let the chips fall where they may?

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Laura’s Quotes

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: oprah-s-thank-you-game, people

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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

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

tags: books, humor

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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

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The History Book Club — 25905 members — last activity 23 hours, 41 min ago
"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more

Life Off the Label — 18 members — last activity May 06, 2020 08:23PM
Transform your "normal" into healthy by joining a community of like-minded individuals on the quest for sustainable wellness. Colleen Kachmann hosts t ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22561 members — last activity Jan 26, 2026 02:43PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

Historical Fiction Readers — 1585 members — last activity Jan 30, 2026 12:11PM
This group is for readers of Historical Fiction and History from across all genres, eras, and time periods.

Stephen King Fans — 20176 members — last activity 16 hours, 59 min ago
A place for all Stephen King fans to gather and discuss his work. Welcome Constant Readers!! EST 2007

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