Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”
―
―
“No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.”
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
― The Braindead Megaphone
― The Braindead Megaphone
“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.”
―
―
“To know the vintage and quality of a wine one need not drink the whole cask. It must be perfectly easy in half an hour to say whether a book is worth anything or worth nothing. Ten minutes are really sufficient, if one has the instinct for form. Who wants to wade through a dull volume? One tastes it, and that is quite enough – more than enough, I should imagine.”
― Intentions
― Intentions
What's the Name of That Book???
— 122162 members
— last activity 2 hours, 43 min ago
Can't remember the title of a book you read? Come search our bookshelves and discussion posts. If you don’t find it there, post a description on our U ...more
Erin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Erin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
520 books
|
78 friends
2,014 books
|
42 friends
1,024 books
|
70 friends
762 books
|
102 friends
1,634 books
|
133 friends
538 books
|
114 friends
641 books
|
225 friends
3,146 books
|
166 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by Erin
Lists liked by Erin