Fiona

https://www.goodreads.com/fi-b

Fiona’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (23)
currently-reading‎ (2)
read‎ (642)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
author-american‎ (121)
author-british‎ (118)
author-australian‎ (73)
non-fiction‎ (52)
historical-fiction‎ (43)
short-stories‎ (32)
new-zealand‎ (31)
memoir‎ (29)

love-them-to-bits‎ (28)
audiobook‎ (27)
poetry‎ (26)
fantasy‎ (24)
favourites‎ (21)
queer‎ (20)
author-french‎ (19)
crime‎ (18)
author-canadian‎ (17)
magic-realism‎ (17)
true-crime‎ (17)
classics‎ (16)

author-indian‎ (14)
author-japanese‎ (14)
dystopian‎ (14)
essays‎ (13)
history‎ (13)
novella‎ (13)
author-irish‎ (11)
read-in-2011‎ (11)
ghost-stories‎ (10)
political-essays‎ (10)
religion‎ (10)
russia‎ (10)

mental-illness‎ (9)
social-non-fiction‎ (9)
author-russian‎ (8)
plays‎ (8)
political-non-fiction‎ (8)
2014-reading-challenge‎ (7)
folklore‎ (7)
january-12th-rocks‎ (7)
philosophy‎ (7)
supernatural‎ (7)
women-are-dark-and-strange‎ (7)
author-indigenous-australian‎ (6)

Stats | More…

Fiona is Currently Reading

Fiona is currently reading

The Wax Child

by Olga Ravn

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

progress:

(page 77 of 184)
— 4 hours, 1 min ago

Apr 18, 2026 01:14AM

Fiona is currently reading

The Monk

by Matthew Gregory Lewis

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

progress:

(77%)
— Apr 18, 2026 06:41PM

Mar 31, 2026 07:41PM

Fiona’s Quotes

“What hath night to do with sleep?”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: night, paradise-lost, sleep

1889 likes

“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
― Simone de Beauvoir , La vieillesse

tags: ageing, inifinity, life, old-age

2040 likes

“If ever a place had a karma of damnation, it's Rottnest. And all those slick galleries selling Aboriginal art were eroding away my will to live. It's as if Germans built a Jewish food hall over Buchenwald.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

tags: aboriginal, australia, rottnest-island

6 likes

“I am a tiny seashell
that has secretly drifted ashore
and carries the sound of the ocean
surging through its body.”
― Edward Hirsch

1276 likes

“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”
― Franz Kafka

450 likes

More of Fiona’s quotes…