Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book

j

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


Deep Waters: A Me...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Black Wolf
j is currently reading
by Louise Penny (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Men Explain Thing...
j is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 11 books that j is reading…
Book cover for Under the Skin
I imagined a kind of trickle-down effect from the health information our magazine provided:
j
Interesting Correlation
Loading...
Hernan Diaz
“Denial is always a form of confirmation.”
Hernan Diaz, Trust

Hernan Diaz
“Whatever the past may have handed on to us, it is up to each one of us to chisel our present out of the shapeless block of the future.”
Hernan Diaz, Trust

Sy Montgomery
“If people had more understanding of geologic time, we’d be less selfish and greedy, and think about the future.” It almost seems as if Cris is living in a different time-world than the rest of us. The rest of us humans, that is. At the moment of the world’s most urgent extinction crises, he radiates calm. Amid a culture of hurry and hunger, he remains contented. He holds, at once, the in-the-moment present and the far-off future, and faces them both with composed persistence. He is living in turtle time. Turtle people are not your ordinary, run-of-the mill humans. Matt and I are staying at the TSA’s intern guesthouse, an immaculate mobile home on a site where the former occupant raised rats for a living (and whose trailer was eventually relocated”
Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell

Sy Montgomery
“understanding of geologic time, we’d be less selfish and greedy, and think about the future.”
Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell

Tommy Orange
“And don’t make the mistake of calling us resilient. To not have been destroyed, to not have given up, to have survived, is no badge of honor. Would you call an attempted murder victim resilient?”
Tommy Orange, There There

year in books
Laura (...
4,998 books | 2,496 friends

Mystery...
105 books | 9 friends

Karen Grew
1,576 books | 56 friends

Kaylee ...
0 books | 6 friends





Polls voted on by j

Lists liked by j