John

John’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (142)
currently-reading‎ (1)
read‎ (511)
fiction‎ (344)
fantasy‎ (129)
classic‎ (83)
children-s-lit‎ (73)
non-fiction‎ (66)

graphic-novel‎ (47)
young-adult‎ (41)
history‎ (30)
sci-fi‎ (27)
newbery-medal‎ (25)
picture-book‎ (25)
horror‎ (24)
western‎ (22)

political‎ (20)
biography‎ (18)
manga‎ (12)
pulitzer-prize‎ (11)
comedy‎ (10)
mystery‎ (7)
caldecott-medal-and-honor‎ (6)
memoir‎ (6)

short-story‎ (5)
sports‎ (5)
newbery-honor‎ (4)
printz-award-honor‎ (4)
beat‎ (1)
steampunk‎ (1)
true-crime‎ (1)

Stats | More…

John is Currently Reading

John is currently reading

Aeschylus | Sophocles | Euripides | Aristophanes (Great Books of the Western World, #5)

by Aeschylus

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Aug 10, 2021 05:40AM

“At sundown, our world comes alive, all nature feeds upon itself. The algae gets eaten by the mullet, the mullet get eaten by the redfish, the redfish get eaten by the pelicans, the pelicans get eaten by the chipmunks. No, I'm only kidding; I don't know what eats the pelicans.”
― Sean Dietrich, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: A Memoir of Learning to Believe You’re Gonna Be Okay

2 likes

“One day, while walking through the frozen aisle at the grocery story, I saw a bunch of packages with clear labeling: brussels sprouts. I went up to the store manage, whom I knew. "Brussels sprouts offend me!" I told him. "Don't I deserve the right to come into a store and not see a product that offends me?"
He thought about it.
Then he said, "Nobody comes to the grocery store because it doesn't have what they don't want." He paused. "Some people like brussels sprouts."
It's the same with a library.”
― James LaRue, On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the US

tags: censorship, libraries

0 likes

“I scrubbed in the water while Ellie Mae chased a jackrabbit that was wandering on the shore. She nearly caught the rabbit, but the rabbit called for reinforcements. Soon nearly eighty rabbits emerged from the brush and began chasing my dog across the Texas plains. These were not rabbits like we have in Florida. Some of these were carrying tomahawks, and a few were on horseback.”
― Sean Dietrich , Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: A Memoir of Learning to Believe You’re Gonna Be Okay

tags: dogs, rabbits, texas

2 likes

“The first thing I did was eat barbecue. I have always found that barbecue helps the human body work better. The cholesterol lubricates the mental passages.”
― Sean Dietrich, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: A Memoir of Learning to Believe You’re Gonna Be Okay

tags: barbecue, bbq, cholesterol

2 likes

“For some people, the transition to adulthood happens almost overnight. It certainly did with me. I’ve met other orphans. We are kids who can’t even pinpoint when this change happened. We have felt like old people since our fathers died.
Our mothers looked to us for big decisions. They relied on us. Before we ever went out on our first date, we were already acting like a retired father of four. All our paychecks went toward rent. All our spare time went toward helping to keep a home fire burning.
We got so good at pretending we were older than our age that we started to believe it. We begin to hate our own reflections because they betray how we see ourselves. The mirror portrays us too young. We are not children; we are ancient. We’re fifty years old thirty-five years before our fiftieth birthday.”
― Sean Dietrich, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: A Memoir of Learning to Believe You’re Gonna Be Okay

tags: adulthood, orphans

2 likes

More of John’s quotes…