Andrea’s Profile

Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Andrea.

http://littleredelf.com
http://www.goodreads.com/littleredelf




Drown
Andrea rated a book 4 of 5 stars
bookshelves: currently-reading
read in May, 2013

progress: 
 
  (page 131 of 208)
May 01, 2013 05:37pm

 
Glaciers
Andrea is currently reading:
by Alexis M. Smith (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading

progress: 
 
  (page 29 of 174)
Apr 16, 2013 08:24am

 

Andrea's Recent Updates

Andrea marked as to-read:
Butterfly People by Robin Lim
Andrea marked as to-read:
Free Ride by Robert Levine
Andrea marked as to-read:
The Shallows by Nicholas G. Carr
Andrea marked as to-read:
Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier
Andrea marked as to-read:
You are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier
Andrea rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Drown by Junot Díaz
Drown
by Junot Díaz
read in May, 2013
Andrea is now following Christopher Moore's reviews
Andrea is on page 131 of 208 of Drown
Drown
Drown
by Junot Díaz
progress: 
 
More of Andrea's books…
Neal Stephenson
“The difference between stupid and intelligent people -- and this is true whether or not they are well-educated -- is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambigous or even contradictory situations -- in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.”
Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age

Patton Oswalt
“Roddy the assistant manager lived in the theater. He'd emptied out one of the supply closets. He'd installed an inflatable mattress, a Shower Anywhere portable shower, and a wee television. He slept amid the powdered-butter fumes and empty drink-syrup tanks. He had grub-white skin and Goth circles under his eyes that, unlike those of Goths, came from really, truly existing half in the world of the dead. He smelled like carpeting, Scotch tape, and steak sauce. He was almost forty but had one of those half mustaches that thirteen-year-olds have. He was the closest thing to a zombie I've yet encountered in this world.”
Patton Oswalt, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland: A Book by Patton Oswalt

“Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.”
Natalie Angier

Annie Dillard
“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

Neal Stephenson
“The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and time.”
Neal Stephenson, Anathem

unamused (Select)
1 chapters   —   updated Oct 02, 2010 04:14pm
Description: i have muses, sure enough. guides. voices. faeries. things that keep me up at nite or prod me on in the middle of the day, with something loud and clear to say. often in the shower, sometimes i hear it right in my head or chest, a booming, filling voice. sometimes it is in my own voice. sometimes, it's not. it is my Greek Chorus, my accompanying soundtrack, the movie voice over. the blathering other. it’s ok – i’m no stranger to odd voices and old muses. sometimes i see (channel) writing and i have a few special guest stars who visit and stand in and they have very distinct voices. what i've learned is that, for me, it's an exercise, it's a voice (or several) that like any good relationship, need cultivation and conversation to keep them active and accessible and "flowing." as in "real life," there are some friends for whom, if you don't call for awhile, get offended. but when the voice(s) go dead on the line, i write stuff like this, just to address the situation . . . sometimes i write when i think i have nothing to write.
song bird (Poetry)
1 chapters   —   updated Oct 01, 2010 04:19pm
Description: Winner of the Goodreads Poetry Contest, October 2010
233 ¡ POETRY ! — 10455 members — last activity 4 minutes ago
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...more

The Cha...
2,024 books | 5,000 friends
Friend details

Asails F
4,449 books | 1,638 friends

Jennife...
436 books | 20 friends

Malbadeen
822 books | 169 friends

Anton Roe
449 books | 322 friends

Sarah
429 books | 71 friends

P.S.
277 books | 790 friends

Neil
32 books | 5,610 friends

More friends…

Quizzes and Trivia

questions answered:
1 (0.0%)

correct:
1 (100.0%)

skipped:
0 (0.0%)

913040 out of 1746645

streak:
1

best streak:
1

questions added:
0



Polls voted on by this member