James Barker

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

http://www.artbank.org.uk

The Complete Scre...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Manifest Now
James Barker is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
I Used to Live He...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 14 books that James is reading…
Loading...
William Faulkner
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
William Faulkner

Charles Nodier
“A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.”
Charles Nodier

Jane Bowles
“True enough,” said Mrs. Copperfield, bringing her fist down on the table and looking very mean. “I have gone to pieces, which is a thing I’ve wanted to do for years. I know I am as guilty as I can be, but I have my happiness, which I guard like a wolf, and I have authority now and a certain amount of daring, which, if you remember correctly, I never had before.”
Jane Bowles, Two Serious Ladies

Michael Ondaatje
“For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are songlike in their refrains and rhymes, making up a single monologue. We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell.”
Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero
tags: life

Beryl Bainbridge
“A man bears the weight of his own body without knowing it, but he soon feels the weight of any other object. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that a man cannot forget- but not himself.”
Beryl Bainbridge, Every Man for Himself

2281 Magic Realism — 1030 members — last activity Jul 04, 2025 11:47AM
Magic realism is a global and varied mode of literature, from the early twentieth century European works which made the everyday seem magical, to the ...more
132506 Just Literature — 333 members — last activity May 04, 2020 02:38AM
I feel there is the need for a forum where we can discuss literature. Not just rate books and say how much we like them, but anything to do with liter ...more
171965 The GR Mixtape exchange service — 168 members — last activity Nov 27, 2020 04:55PM
For those of you who wonder, as I do, if similar taste in books can translate to similar taste in music... This group is for posting mixtapes in a mo ...more
97302 The BURIED Book Club — 935 members — last activity Oct 09, 2025 06:06PM
TODAY BOOKS ARE NOT BURNED. THEY ARE BURIED. WE SHALL UNEARTH THEM.
15807 Queereaders — 20977 members — last activity 2 hours, 20 min ago
A group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and supporters interested in fun and stimulating conversation about books, movies, art, ...more
More of James’s groups…
year in books
Alan
3,380 books | 327 friends

Diane
7,141 books | 870 friends

Susan
7,045 books | 761 friends

Yolanda
391 books | 30 friends

zed
1,442 books | 443 friends

Jonfaith
3,774 books | 536 friends

Kinga
14,374 books | 677 friends

Melki
15,298 books | 3,057 friends

More friends…
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean RhysWide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys
4 books — 2 voters
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregorThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David  MitchellThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodOn Chesil Beach by Ian McEwanThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Non-Winners of the Man Booker
274 books — 244 voters

More…



Polls voted on by James

Lists liked by James