Sign in with Facebook
progress:
On page 47.
"For the time being this has been taken by my hubby! I need a new book until then."
—
Jan 17, 2019 09:00AM
progress:
(page 102 of 384)
"There was an interesting passage I read, how the humans are cultured to prey on negative feeds. Nothing new, but I rather mention it.
The excerpt:
"We cant fight it: evil is more powerful and more plentiful than good. We are more sensitive to negative than to positive things."
Sales/marketers employee this tactic." — Jan 10, 2020 03:18AM
"There was an interesting passage I read, how the humans are cultured to prey on negative feeds. Nothing new, but I rather mention it.
The excerpt:
"We cant fight it: evil is more powerful and more plentiful than good. We are more sensitive to negative than to positive things."
Sales/marketers employee this tactic." — Jan 10, 2020 03:18AM
Masuma
is currently reading
progress:
(page 50 of 272)
"So far - enjoying. true stuff. I generally enjoy how ideas are presented..so lets see." — Jun 23, 2021 05:09AM
"So far - enjoying. true stuff. I generally enjoy how ideas are presented..so lets see." — Jun 23, 2021 05:09AM
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
―
―
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
―
―
“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
― Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
Masuma’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Masuma’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
8,513 books
|
285 friends
98 books
|
23 friends
43 books
|
33 friends
130 books
|
110 friends
101 books
|
37 friends
68 books
|
65 friends
101 books
|
58 friends
3 books
|
11 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Children's, Cookbooks, History, Non-fiction, Psychology, Religion, Science, Self help, Travel, and parenting
Polls voted on by Masuma
Lists liked by Masuma