Mark Desrosiers

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

http://www.facebook.com/desrosiers

Loading...
Gordon Donaldson
“Americans, though apparently impressed by ghastly sentimentality and outrageous hypocrisy, are by nature much more politically cynical than Canadians. In their longer history they have had much more to be cynical about. They demand a vulgar show, enjoy it, guffaw, and forget it the next morning. When a new U.S. President takes office all bets are off and his campaign platform is dismantled and stored away. ”
Gordon Donaldson, Eighteen Men : The Prime Ministers of Canada

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”
James D. Nicoll

“I can't help it either, the laughing: solemn gatherings, slow
ballads, pompous orations, any person or occasion that assumes I'll
offer my unreserved respect: I tend to find them all hysterical in the
end. Especially if someone similar is there to set me off. They don't
have to do much: I recognize what it looks like when somebody's
composure starts to strip itself away. They'll maybe cross their arms
with that twitchy, shaky, tension, or they'll grab down little wheezes
of embarrassed air, or they'll simply hood their faces under their
palm, trying to hide how fast they're slipping, how fast *we're*
slipping, because I'll be weakening with them by then, I'll be just as
lost, pulled equally tight against the moment when we both stop caring
and let it disgrace us -- when we laugh.”
A.L. Kennedy, Indelible Acts

Kingsley Amis
“You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescence, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people besides yourself. A discovery like that can't help knocking you off balance for a time.”
Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

Gary Brecher
“I love that name. A country named Chad. Sounds like somebody who lived next door to the Brady Bunch. But if Chad actually lived next door to the Bradys, Greg would be roasting over a slow fire and Marcia would be standing naked on an auction block, because Chad is one of the hungriest, craziest, most desperate places on the planet.”
Gary Brecher, War Nerd

220 Goodreads Librarians Group — 320566 members — last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
3917 Minnesota Bibliophage Continuum — 43 members — last activity Mar 19, 2014 11:23PM
This is a group for current and former Minnesotans who prefer to gnaw, chew, and devour (maybe even regurgitate) books. "Minnesota Nice" is allowed, b ...more
13452 Art Squared Publishing — 17 members — last activity Apr 23, 2009 05:41PM
Art Squared Publishing is an art book publishing company centered around the idea that some art is for artists and non artists alike; pure, fun, and e ...more
25x33 Humor is My Genre — 170 members — last activity Feb 28, 2023 07:18AM
Novels that entertain, bring a smile or a laugh to the reader. They can be any genre, mystery, history, gothic, etc or any theme, but the books must h ...more
1350 Balconeers — 44 members — last activity May 30, 2010 03:44PM
Hey, there's a Balcony in the Goodreads library where we can all talk – movie books, books into movies, movies into books, books about going to the mo ...more
More of Mark’s groups…
year in books
Heather
29,401 books | 3,158 friends

Eric Byrd
3,095 books | 1,800 friends

Mike
7,664 books | 1,350 friends

Scott
1,161 books | 32 friends

Sarah
2,774 books | 627 friends

Adrianna
1,370 books | 111 friends

Manny
4,304 books | 4,950 friends

Kaethe
14,353 books | 900 friends

More friends…
The Mind of the South by W.J. CashPart of Our Time by Murray KemptonThe Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.The Metaphysical Club  by Louis MenandOverthrow by Stephen Kinzer
Best American History Books
2,202 books — 2,585 voters
A People's History of the Supreme Court by Peter IronsThe Nine by Jeffrey ToobinThe Forgotten Memoir of John Knox by John Frush KnoxThe Partisan by John A. Jenkins
Supreme Court fanatics
77 books — 26 voters

More…


Polls voted on by Mark

Lists liked by Mark