Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
―
―
“It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret.”
―
―
“Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back. There's just emptiness all around, and you in it, like singing up from the bottom of a well, like nothing else, until you harm yourself, until you are a mad dog biting yourself for sympathy. Because there is no relenting.”
― The Bingo Palace
― The Bingo Palace
“I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?”
― The Round House
― The Round House
“How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood.”
― Love Medicine
― Love Medicine
Beth’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Beth’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,184 books
|
72 friends
2,922 books
|
112 friends
1,759 books
|
148 friends
871 books
|
80 friends
613 books
|
19 friends
5,504 books
|
148 friends
340 books
|
138 friends
2,785 books
|
8 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Art, Children's, Christian, Classics, Ebooks, Gay and Lesbian, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Spirituality, and Young-adult
Polls voted on by Beth
Lists liked by Beth