Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
this disregard of Africans for flowers, the indifference of the abundantly blessed (or psychologically battered—the chronic self-loather who can’t accept, even with evidence, that anything native to him, occurring in abundance, in excess,
...more
“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“One must respect black, nothing prostitutes it. It does not please the eye and it awakens no sensuality. It is the agent of the mind far more than the most beautiful color to the palette or prism”
―
―
“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
―
―
“Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Yo’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Yo’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,406 books
|
12 friends
7,565 books
|
1,212 friends
395 books
|
14 friends
12 books
|
1 friend
72 books
|
1 friend
194 books
|
3 friends
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Yo
Lists liked by Yo