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The Key Trilogy (The Key Trilogy #1-3)

by Nora Roberts (Goodreads Author)

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Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

by Annie Spence (Goodreads Author)

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The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth from the Medicine

by Jennifer Gunter

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“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain

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“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

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“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom

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“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
― Mark Twain

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¡ POETRY ! — 22526 members — last activity May 04, 2026 06:38PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon — 4435 members — last activity May 07, 2026 10:27PM
Our next readathon will be July 10-11, 2026. We'll start reading at 8pm Eastern Time on Friday April 10th, and end Saturday July 11th at 8pm EDT. ...more