Ben

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Ben.


Washington: A Life
Ben is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Iron Flame
Ben is currently reading
by Rebecca Yarros (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Second Coming
Ben is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 13 books that Ben is reading…
Loading...
Colson Whitehead
“And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are.”
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

Emily St. John Mandel
“A fragment for my friend--
If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you
Silent, my starship suspended in night”
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

Anthony Doerr
“You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.”
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr
“We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother’s birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.”
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

Paul Kalanithi
“I don’t believe in the wisdom of children, nor in the wisdom of the old. There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in the moment.”
Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

8565 Pick-a-Shelf — 2443 members — last activity 9 hours, 6 min ago
The purpose to this group is to challenge all you avid readers out there to expand your reading beyond your preferred genres. Who knows you may find s ...more
142309 Underground Knowledge — A discussion group — 25070 members — last activity 2 hours, 11 min ago
This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underreported issues of our era. All you need is an enquiring ...more
415557 2019 Reading Group — 12 members — last activity Feb 02, 2019 09:47AM
Pretty self explanatory
3183 Tournament of Books — 2361 members — last activity 6 hours, 42 min ago
This book group was established for those interested in participating in The Morning News's Tournament of Books. Please do not feel the need to finish ...more
year in books
April D...
243 books | 73 friends

elena ☾
606 books | 279 friends

David
804 books | 2,846 friends

Allison
2,478 books | 62 friends

Sara (s...
1,029 books | 4,997 friends

Kathryn...
233 books | 87 friends

Olivia ...
462 books | 107 friends

Daniel
1,621 books | 254 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Ben

Lists liked by Ben