Sign in with Facebook
4,425 books
—
7,426 voters
Katie
https://www.goodreads.com/mess425
to-read
(513)
currently-reading (26)
read (572)
read-with-the-boys (15)
just-couldn-t-finish (5)
memoir (99)
human-behavior (84)
good-writing (75)
underrepresented-voices (65)
i-expected-so-much-more-from-you (42)
funny (41)
war (39)
currently-reading (26)
read (572)
read-with-the-boys (15)
just-couldn-t-finish (5)
memoir (99)
human-behavior (84)
good-writing (75)
underrepresented-voices (65)
i-expected-so-much-more-from-you (42)
funny (41)
war (39)
women
(39)
crime (38)
book-club (35)
new-york (34)
clever (29)
never-trust-popular-opinion (29)
history (26)
she-blinded-me-with-science (24)
essays (23)
asia-india-middle-east (22)
historical-fiction (22)
social-justice (22)
crime (38)
book-club (35)
new-york (34)
clever (29)
never-trust-popular-opinion (29)
history (26)
she-blinded-me-with-science (24)
essays (23)
asia-india-middle-east (22)
historical-fiction (22)
social-justice (22)
The planet was dying while people fought over things like who was most American—or who was American at all.
“The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.”
―
―
“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.”
―
―
“First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.”
―
―
“When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows. You laugh hard every day. You think about the future and read about global warming. You realize how nice it feels to care about someone else more than yourself. And gradually, through this heart-heavy openness and these fresh eyes, you start to see the world a little more. Maybe you start to care a teeny tiny bit more about what happens to everyone in it.”
― Yes Please
― Yes Please
Rule #1: The First Rule of Book Club is You Never Talk About Book Club.
— 12 members
— last activity Nov 20, 2009 06:58PM
Project Mayhem
Beantown Bookworms
— 422 members
— last activity Jul 30, 2018 08:17PM
For goodreads members living in & around Boston, MA. General discussion about topics including - but not limited to - favorite bookstores & libraries, ...more
Katie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Katie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,169 books
|
102 friends
1,814 books
|
84 friends
1,098 books
|
18 friends
1,623 books
|
78 friends
504 books
|
26 friends
1,487 books
|
185 friends
2,459 books
|
240 friends
836 books
|
119 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Katie
Lists liked by Katie
