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The Storyteller

by Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)

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The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About

by Mel Robbins

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The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life

by Suleika Jaouad

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Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump--and Democrats from Themselves by Rick Wilson

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She’s a happy warrior, praised for her political skills and the subject of endless glowing media profiles.

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Jill’s Quotes

“Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

tags: family, home

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“Focus on faith and grow your roots strong and deep so no one can make you believe in something that is not good for your soul.”
― Molly Friedenfeld

tags: faith, focus, growth-life, inspiration, lessons, life, roots, soul, strong

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“She said: “We all spend our twenties and thirties trying so hard to be perfect, because we’re so worried about what people will think of us. Then we get into our forties and fifties, and we finally start to be free, because we decide that we don’t give a damn what anyone thinks of us. But you won’t be completely free until you reach your sixties and seventies, when you finally realize this liberating truth—nobody was ever thinking about you, anyhow.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

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“as soon as you notice you’re suffering you automatically embrace yourself with compassion.”
― Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind

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“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

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Jewish Book Carnival — 1597 members — last activity Nov 30, 2025 09:22AM
This is the GoodReads group for the Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly forum for sharing links and information on Jewish books and the blogs that cover t ...more

The Spiritual Memoir Group — 118 members — last activity Oct 02, 2023 10:37AM
This group is for persons interested in the genre of the spiritual memoir. Think Augustine, Thomas Merton, Anne Lamott, and Kathleen Norris to name a ...more

The Modern Library 100 Best Novels Challenge — 392 members — last activity May 06, 2021 11:01AM
If you are working at reading your way through the Modern Library's Top 100 novels, join us! We will read one-two books per month together (depending ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22606 members — last activity Dec 08, 2025 06:21AM
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