304 ratings (3.83 avg)
2 reviews

Emma

Add friend

https://www.goodreads.com/stitchingupfreaks

Emma’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (202)
currently-reading‎ (3)

read‎ (321)
did-not-finish‎ (0)

owned‎ (350)
graded-unit‎ (10)

favorites‎ (4)

Stats | More…

Emma is Currently Reading

Emma is currently reading

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

bookshelves: owned, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in September 2014

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

progress:

(page 21 of 464)
— Jan 29, 2026 12:42PM

Jan 29, 2026 12:42PM

Emma is currently reading

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

by Cormac McCarthy

bookshelves: owned, currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Oct 29, 2025 09:45AM

Emma is currently reading

The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900

by T.M. Devine

bookshelves: owned, currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Sep 25, 2025 04:15AM

Emma’s Quotes

“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
― Nora Ephron

2323 likes

“The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.”
― Jean Shepherd

1288 likes

“I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”
― Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

1182 likes

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

2726 likes

“Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.”
― William Allingham

1238 likes

More of Emma’s quotes…

The Next Best Book Club — 26067 members — last activity 7 hours, 10 min ago
Are you searching for the NEXT best book? Are you willing to kiss all your spare cash goodbye? Are you easily distracted by independent bookshops, bi ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22549 members — last activity Mar 04, 2026 01:17PM
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

Our Shared Shelf — 222891 members — last activity 8 hours, 43 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