2,288 books
—
6,051 voters
Amanda's Profile
Amanda's Recent Updates
|
Amanda
is currently reading:
|
My rating:
|
|
Amanda
is currently reading:
|
My rating:
|
|
Amanda
gave
 to:
|
My rating:
|
"This conversation, you will not be surprised to know, was the impetus for their breakup, given that it caused her to realize the emotion that she had thought was her not liking him very much was, in fact, her not liking him at all. Because despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put."
—
Eleanor Brown
|
|
|
"She remembered one of her boyfriends asking, offhandedly, how many books she read in a year. "A few hundred," she said.
"How do you have the time?" he asked, gobsmacked. She narrowed her eyes and considered the array of potential answers in front of her. Because I don't spend hours flipping through cable complaining there's nothing on? Because my entire Sunday is not eaten up with pre-game, in-game, and post-game talking heads? Because I do not spend every night drinking overpriced beer and engaging in dick-swinging contests with the other financirati? Because when I am waiting in line, at the gym, on the train, eating lunch, I am not complaining about the wait/staring into space/admiring myself in reflective surfaces? I am reading! "I don't know," she said, shrugging." — Eleanor Brown |
|
|
Amanda
gave
to:
|
My rating:
|
|
Amanda
is on page 175 of 394 of Winter Garden
|
My rating:
|
|
Amanda
marked as to-read:
|
My rating:
|
|
Amanda
marked as to-read:
|
My rating:
|
"I put it on my library hold list. It may take a while to get it."
|
|
“This conversation, you will not be surprised to know, was the impetus for their breakup, given that it caused her to realize the emotion that she had thought was her not liking him very much was, in fact, her not liking him at all. Because despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put.”
― Eleanor Brown, The Weird Sisters
― Eleanor Brown, The Weird Sisters
“We knew we were doomed. The kiss was a warm acceptance of years of bickering, years of me consuming foods that I found barely edible and Henry tidying up after someone who already thought she had tidied up. When I kissed Henry I wasn't imagining Ex-boyfriend #13; I was picturing Husband #1.”
― Lisa Lutz, The Spellmans Strike Again
― Lisa Lutz, The Spellmans Strike Again
“He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
“Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
1,097 books
|
31 friends
95 books
|
16 friends
231 books
|
50 friends
765 books
|
38 friends
163 books
|
20 friends
132 books
|
39 friends
353 books
|
25 friends
23 books
|
755 friends
More friends…
Quizzes and Trivia
questions answered:
2929 (2.5%)
correct:
1708 (58.3%)
skipped:
306 (9.5%)
3993 out of 872557
streak:
19
best streak:
20
questions added:
0
polls voted on by this member
