Joana Barroca

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Joana’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (71)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (615)
did-not-finish‎ (18)
year-on-goodreads‎ (6)
owned‎ (281)
romance‎ (215)
kindle‎ (202)
fantasy‎ (137)

contemporary‎ (106)
favorites‎ (103)
mystery-thriller‎ (98)
2020‎ (75)
graphic-novel-manga‎ (75)
2019‎ (71)
2025‎ (66)
2018‎ (65)
2024‎ (62)

2026‎ (58)
2022‎ (55)
2023‎ (50)
2017‎ (47)
2021‎ (45)
historical-fiction‎ (17)
sci-fi‎ (16)
fiction‎ (13)
poetry‎ (11)

christmas‎ (10)
dystopia‎ (10)
non-fiction‎ (10)
netgalley‎ (9)
short-stories‎ (9)
classics‎ (7)

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Joana’s Quotes

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: books, reading

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“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
― Epictetus

tags: anxiety, mankind

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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

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“I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.”
― Woody Allen

tags: indifference, misanthrope, social-anxiety

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“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: music, poetry

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Joana’s Groups

Share your Blogs! — 4285 members — last activity Sep 25, 2026 07:23PM
Do you have a blog that you would like more people to visit? Well post the link and tell us about it! The purpose of this group is to check out each ...more

Buzzwordathon — 6249 members — last activity Sep 30, 2026 06:44PM
The Buzzword Readathon (#buzzwordathon) is a monthly readathon, running the first week of each month (1st through 7th). Each month will have a designa ...more

Tome Topple Readathon — 2969 members — last activity Sep 10, 2023 03:39PM
The next round of the Tome Topple Readathon will take place from midnight in your time zone on February 7th to 11:59pm in your time zone on February 2 ...more

Duodecathon — 562 members — last activity Dec 28, 2019 12:56PM
12 weeks, 12 challenges! This event is usually at the end of every month! There will be reading challenges to complete during the read-a-thons. Twit ...more

Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge — 43069 members — last activity 1 hour, 21 min ago
*** IMPORTANT NOTE: There is never any fee charged to participate in this challenge or in this group. If you received a note asking for money, that is ...more

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