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Buried Deep and Other Stories

by Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)

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Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)

by Rebecca Yarros (Goodreads Author)

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Julie’s Quotes

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein

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“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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“Certainly the past doesn't exist anywhere outside our own heads. I have never touched, kicked, or felt the past.”
― Matthew Johnson, Archaeological Theory

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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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Outlander Book Club — 241 members — last activity Mar 28, 2018 05:36AM
a place to discuss the Outlander Series of novels written by Diana Gabaldon

Ask Rhys Bowen, Deborah Crombie, and Charles Todd! — 434 members — last activity Nov 14, 2019 09:49PM
Join us on Wednesday, February 19th for a special discussion with authors Rhys Bowen, Deborah Crombie, and Charles Todd! The authors will be answering ...more

Shadow of Night — 13 members — last activity Mar 08, 2013 05:17PM
by Deborah Harkness It is the second novel about Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch, and the handsome geneticist and vampire Matthew Cl ...more

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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