Ellen

http://lennisblog.blogspot.com

https://www.goodreads.com/lenni

Ellen’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (661)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1333)
did-not-finish‎ (55)
non-fiction‎ (693)
memoir-biography-autobiography‎ (239)
kindle‎ (188)
movie-too‎ (161)
forestry-nature‎ (138)
latin-america‎ (136)
children-s-ya‎ (120)

book-club‎ (115)
asia‎ (96)
africa‎ (83)
city-planning-place‎ (76)
movie-to-see‎ (76)
europe‎ (57)
development‎ (46)
indigenous-list‎ (46)
owned‎ (43)
classics‎ (41)
aroundworldin40books‎ (40)

audiobook‎ (34)
stop-trump-list‎ (32)
will-read-again‎ (27)
religion‎ (26)
middle-east‎ (21)
little-books-list‎ (20)
grad-school‎ (16)
first-reads‎ (11)
graphic-novel‎ (11)
mayor-s-list‎ (11)
suggested-by-open-veins-lat-am‎ (11)

education‎ (10)
dad_recommended‎ (9)
en-espanol‎ (9)
books-about-books‎ (8)
running‎ (5)
wishlist‎ (4)
poetry‎ (3)
en-francais‎ (1)

Stats | More…

Ellen’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

2 highlights

There are many challenges to long-distance running, but one of the greatest is the question of where to put one’s house keys.

See Ellen’s 38 books with notes and highlights…

“If this book accomplishes anything it will be to have exposed a number of myths about the American dream, to have disabused readers of the notion that upward mobility is a function of the founders’ ingenious plan, or that Jacksonian democracy was liberating, or that the Confederacy was about states’ rights rather than preserving class and racial distinctions.”
― Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

17 likes

“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul

5697 likes

“It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

20 likes

“To be a black male is to be always at war, and no flight to the county can save us, because even there we are met by the assupmtion of violence, by the specter of who we might turn on next.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood

tags: african-americans, race-relations

6 likes

“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.”
― Louis de Bernières, Corelli’s Mandolin

732 likes

More of Ellen’s quotes…