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Jennifer is Currently Reading

Jennifer is currently reading

Lincoln in the Bardo

by George Saunders

bookshelves: read-again-and-again, pantheon, american-lit, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

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Jennifer said: " Heartbreaking and heartwarming and transcendent. "

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"Second reading, this time the audiobook voiced by 166 people!! Including David Sedaris, Nick Offerman, Susan Sarandon, Bill Hader, Megan Mullaly! On listening it’s striking me that I love GS’s work like I love Beckett’s. The humour in despair, the voices that ring so true." — Feb 09, 2026 01:47AM

Aug 28, 2023 01:12PM · see review

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The Language of Remembering

by Patrick Holloway

bookshelves: currently-reading, irish-lit, novels

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— Jan 24, 2026 12:53PM

Jan 15, 2026 01:03PM

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The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life

by Suleika Jaouad

bookshelves: currently-reading, writing-practice

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Sep 27, 2025 12:52PM

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Read a book from each country — 985 members — last activity Jan 22, 2026 07:54PM
I thought this would be a good place to collect recommendations for books from various countries. I don't have a formal goal to read a book from each ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22560 members — last activity 15 hours, 33 min ago
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