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Our Preseason (Ice League #2)

by S.C. Kate (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 03, 2025 06:09PM

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Gaston (Happily Never After #2)

by Lorie Langdon (Goodreads Author)

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Samhain: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for Halloween (Llewellyn's Sabbat Essentials, 6)

by Diana Rajchel (Goodreads Author)

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Alicia’s Quotes

“Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.”
― Ralph Blum

tags: beginning, destiny, future, hardship, hope, obstacles

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“Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.”
― Siobhan Vivian, Same Difference

tags: autumn, color, fall, nature, winter

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“The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

tags: affection, attention, beauty, color, compassion, detail, interest, irony, mystery

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“Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don't even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving.”
― Jayleigh Cape

tags: challenge, hardship, jayleigh-cape, life, overcome, perseverance

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“I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.”
― Pierre-Auguste Renoir

tags: art, black, color, inspirational

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Diversity is Lit Book Club — 248 members — last activity Jan 02, 2026 09:57AM
❤Expanding our bookshelves and minds❤ In this book club, we vote in a poll and choose from 5 books by BIPOC authors mid-month, then read the highest v ...more

Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge — 26833 members — last activity 7 hours, 47 min ago
An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more

Our Shared Shelf — 223225 members — last activity 5 hours, 9 min ago
OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22582 members — last activity Dec 24, 2025 01:37PM
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

♥!The Young Adult Book Club!♥ — 15590 members — last activity 1 hour, 17 min ago
“You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.” ― Paul Sweeney Welcome to The Young Ad ...more

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