Benny Wilkinson

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

http://www.bennywilkinson.com
https://www.goodreads.com/bennymcboom

The Glamourist
Benny Wilkinson is currently reading
by Luanne G. Smith (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (10%)
11 hours, 46 min ago

 
Book cover for A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
Such is the quandary when it comes to magic, that it is not an issue of strength but of balance. For too little power, and we become weak. Too much, and we become something else entirely.
Loading...
Nora Ephron
“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
Nora Ephron

Terry Pratchett
“Why does the third of the three brothers, who shares his food with the old woman in the wood, go on to become king of the country? Why does James Bond manage to disarm the nuclear bomb a few seconds before it goes off rather than, as it were, a few seconds afterwards? Because a universe where that did not happen would be a dark and hostile place. Let there be goblin hordes, let there be terrible environmental threats, let there be giant mutated slugs if you really must, but let there also be hope. It may be a grim, thin hope, an Arthurian sword at sunset, but let us know that we do not live in vain.”
Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction

Claire North
“Sophia was silent a while, thinking it through. Then, “Go with it.” She said the unfamiliar words carefully, and, grinning, tried them again. “Go with it. You talk about decent people living decent lives as if that doesn’t mean anything, like it’s not a big deal. But you listen–this ‘decent’, it is the only thing that matters. I don’t care if you theorise, Mr Scientist, a machine that makes all men kind and all women beautiful if, while making your machine, you don’t stop to help the old mother cross the street, you know? I don’t care if you cure ageing, or stop starvation or end nuclear wars, if you forget this–” she rapped her knuckles against my forehead “–or this–” pressed her palm against my chest “–because even then if you save everyone else, you’ll be dead inside. Men must be decent first and brilliant later, otherwise you’re not helping people, just servicing the machine.”
Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Emmeline Pankhurst
“I do not remember a time when I could not read, nor any time when reading was not a joy and a solace.”
Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story

Louise Glück
“Even before you touched me, I belonged to you; all you had to do was look at me.”
Louise Glück

year in books

Benny hasn't connected with his friends on Goodreads, yet.


On Stranger Tides by Tim PowersThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanTreasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Pirates!
660 books — 785 voters



Polls voted on by Benny

Lists liked by Benny