Monica

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Monica.


Piranesi
Monica is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Hunchback of ...
Monica is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
A Perfect Spy
Monica is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 6 books that Monica is reading…
Book cover for I Who Have Never Known Men
How strange! It suggests that people were not avid to learn, and that you had to apologise for wanting to convey your knowledge.
Loading...
Charlotte Brontë
“I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth.  I hold myself supremely blest—blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine.  No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh.  I know no weariness of my Edward’s society: he knows none of mine, any more than we each do of the pulsation of the”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Cormac McCarthy
“La notte calò lenta e fredda sulla foresta intorno a lui, e scese una quiete spettrale. Come se qualcosa stesse per accadere, grilli e uccelli notturni tacquero spaventati. Lui accelerò il passo. Nel buio ormai completato si ritrovò smarrito in una foresta paludosa, si dibatté nei pantani risucchianti e si mise quasi a correre [...]. Quando piombò fragorosamente nella radura in mezzo al pioppeto, cadde lungo disteso e rimase per terra con la guancia appoggiata al suolo. E mentre giaceva così un lampo remoto percorse il cielo con la sua luce azzurra, e, in una primordiale visione del mondo dall'occhio fessurato di un embrione d'uccello, scorrendo atroce e istantaneo da buio a buio, gli regalò infine lo spettacolo della cavità e dell'informe plasma bianco che si dibatteva sul muschio rigoglioso e iniziatico, come una magra lepre di palude. Lo avrebbe preso per un fratello senz'ossa della paura stessa che si sentiva in cuore, se il bambino non avesse gridato.
Il bambino urlava la sua maledizione al mondo tenebroso e maleodorante in cui era nato, piangendo e piangendo, mentre l'uomo giaceva a terra farfugliando con le mascelle paralizzate, e con le mani respingeva la notte come un folle paracleto assediato dalle suppliche dell'intero limbo.”
Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark

Cormac McCarthy
“It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gibbering with palsied jawhasps, his hands putting back the night like some witless Paraclete beleaguered with all limbo's clamor.”
Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark

Cormac McCarthy
“The tinker in his burial tree was a wonder to the birds. The vultures that came by day to nose with their hooked beaks among his buttons and pockets like outrageous pets soon left him naked of his rags and flesh alike. Black mandrake sprang beneath the tree as it will where the seed of the hanged falls and in spring a new branch pierced his breast and flowered in a green boutonnière perennial beneath his yellow grin. He took the sparse winter snows upon what thatch of hair still clung to his dried skull and hunters that passed that way never chanced to see him brooding among his barren limbs. Until wind had tolled the thinker's bones and seasons loosed them one by one to the ground below and his bleached and weathered brisket hung in that lonesome wood like a bone birdcage.”
Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark

Cormac McCarthy
“But what is your life? Can you see it? It vanishes at its own appearance. Moment by moment. Until it vanishes to appear no more. When you look at the world is there a point in time when the seen becomes the remembered? How are they separate? It is that which we have no way o show. It is that which is missing from our map and from the picture that it makes. And yet is all we have.”
Cormac McCarthy

970 Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die — 21944 members — last activity 41 minutes ago
For those attempting the crazy feat of reading all 1001 books! For discerning bibliophiles and readers who enjoy unforgettable classic literature, 10 ...more
189072 EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club — 28353 members — last activity 39 minutes ago
Click HERE for the latest group announcements. "It reminded me of ____ but in space." "I read ____ in high school, and actually liked it." "It's ...more
11081 CORMAC MCCARTHY THE MASTER OF WORDS — 206 members — last activity Jun 19, 2023 04:35AM
A group dedicated to the enjoyment of great writing, not to analysis, not to eloquence, but to the joy of reading words well put on paper
77598 101 Books to Read Before You Die — 277 members — last activity Jan 19, 2026 07:58AM
This is a group where we meet online to discuss books from the 101 books to read before you die list. We read one book from the list per month. To com ...more
102372 Literary Award Winners Fiction Book Club — 1122 members — last activity Jan 07, 2026 07:20AM
Literary Award Winners Fiction Book Club is dedicated to reading award winning adult fiction books published in English from the four major awards org ...more
More of Monica’s groups…
year in books
Georgia...
607 books | 1,706 friends

Tom Ste...
110 books | 2,130 friends

Nadine ...
5,643 books | 337 friends

J. Dhopte
57 books | 2,932 friends

Roryitsme
1,873 books | 129 friends

Sean Perry
775 books | 33 friends

Mattia ...
278 books | 63 friends

Lapo
364 books | 179 friends

More friends…
In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteEast of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom WolfeBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,899 books — 49,787 voters
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,214 books — 11,334 voters

More…



Polls voted on by Monica

Lists liked by Monica