Gary Lee

https://www.goodreads.com/wellread_wellfed

Gary’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (72)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1900)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
genre-stuff‎ (1176)
comics‎ (1012)
fun-reads‎ (958)
marvel-comics‎ (440)
literatti‎ (399)
gayish-lit‎ (279)
read-in-2024‎ (171)
horrorific‎ (167)

read-in-2025‎ (149)
brit-lit‎ (136)
non-fiction‎ (131)
valiant-comics‎ (121)
read-in-2023‎ (117)
short-stories‎ (108)
five-stars‎ (95)
poetry‎ (92)
space-opera‎ (81)
overlooked-classics‎ (75)
japanese-moderns‎ (73)
not-quite-5-stars‎ (69)

in-translation‎ (60)
read-in-2026‎ (60)
repeat-offenders‎ (57)
fucking-terrible‎ (56)
essays-or-some-shit‎ (46)
musique‎ (40)
spooktober‎ (40)
bookstore-challenge-2021‎ (39)
artsy-fartsy‎ (36)
critique‎ (33)
e-reads‎ (30)
my-novel-life‎ (29)

bookstore-challenge-2022‎ (28)
baby-talk‎ (27)
bizarro‎ (24)
catalyst-prime‎ (20)
books-on-film‎ (19)
bookstore-challenge-2023‎ (18)
fraunch-lit‎ (18)
massive-verse‎ (17)
photography‎ (16)
true-crime‎ (8)
garbaugust-2025‎ (6)
drama‎ (5)

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Gary’s Quotes

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: writing

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“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.”
― Virginia Woolf

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“Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal. ”
― Hart Crane

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“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.”
― Charles Bukowski

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Gary’s Groups

the BBC — 12 members — last activity Jan 22, 2010 02:33PM
the Bad Book Club -- a private group for friends and co-workers to (intentionally) read and discuss shitty books

Powell's City of Books fan club — 130 members — last activity Jul 10, 2014 01:44PM
I realized how often I fill in 'recommended by' with "Powell's sale table," "Powell's employee pick," "Powell's reading schedule". Though I am sadly f ...more

Portland Readers — 271 members — last activity Feb 18, 2019 04:18PM
People who like to read books* in Portland, OR and surrounding areas. * = books that are vegan, yes?