Sign in with Facebook
858 books
—
981 voters
to-read
(21)
currently-reading (2)
read (693)
did-not-finish (0)
to-review (529)
graphic-novel (279)
fantasy (271)
science-fiction (200)
young-adult (195)
historical-fiction (114)
romance (111)
currently-reading (2)
read (693)
did-not-finish (0)
to-review (529)
graphic-novel (279)
fantasy (271)
science-fiction (200)
young-adult (195)
historical-fiction (114)
romance (111)
manga
(98)
dystopian (85)
post-apocalyptic (70)
non-fiction (63)
fairy-tales (54)
regency (53)
favorites (51)
horror (50)
steampunk (42)
urban-fantasy (40)
adventure (37)
dystopian (85)
post-apocalyptic (70)
non-fiction (63)
fairy-tales (54)
regency (53)
favorites (51)
horror (50)
steampunk (42)
urban-fantasy (40)
adventure (37)
“No matter how bad things get, you can always see the beauty in them. The worse things get, the more you have to make yourself see the magic in order to survive.”
― Pink Smog
― Pink Smog
“I am as silent as death. Do this: Go to your bedroom. Your nice, safe, warm bedroom that is not a glass coffin behind a morgue door. Lie down on your bed not made of ice. Stick your fingers in your ears. Do you hear that? The pulse of life from your heart, the slow in-and-out from your lungs? Even when you are silent, even when you block out all noise, your body is still a cacophony of life. Mine is not. It is the silence that drives me mad. The silence that drives the nightmares to me. Because what if I am dead? How can someone without a beating heart, without breathing lungs live like I do? I must be dead. And this is my greatest fear: After 301 years, when they pull my glass coffin from this morgue, and they let my body thaw like chicken meat on the kitchen counter, I will be just like I am now. I will spend all of eternity trapped in my dead body. There is nothing beyond this. I will be locked within myself forever. And I want to scream. I want to throw open my eyes wake up and not be alone with myself anymore, but I can't. I can't.”
― Across the Universe
― Across the Universe
“Pimps make the best librarians. Psycho killers, the worst. Ditto conmen. Gangsters, gun runners, bank robbers – adept at crowd control, at collaborating with a small staff, at planning with deliberation and executing with contained fury – all possess the librarian’s basic skill set. Scalpers and loan sharks certainly have a role to play. But even they lack that something, the je ne sais quoi, the elusive it. What would a pimp call it? Yes: the love.”
― Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
― Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
“In times of struggle, there are as many reasons not to read as there are to breathe. Don’t you have bigger things to do? Reading, let alone re-reading, is the terrain of milquetoasts and mopey spinsters. At life’s ugliest junctures the very act of opening a book can smack of cowardly escapism. Who chooses to read when there’s work to be done?
Call me a coward if you will, but when the line between duty and sanity blurs, you can usually find me curled up with a battered book, reading as if my mental health depended on it. And it does, for inside the books I love I find food, respite, escape, and perspective.”
― The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder
Call me a coward if you will, but when the line between duty and sanity blurs, you can usually find me curled up with a battered book, reading as if my mental health depended on it. And it does, for inside the books I love I find food, respite, escape, and perspective.”
― The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder
“He was shockingly easy to follow. The pressure of his hand, the step of his foot, the angle of his frame... it was like reading his mind. When he leaned right, they turned in perfect unison. He swept her across the gallery in a quick three, a dizzying pace. Gilded frames and glass cases and the window blurred in her vision, and Azalea spun out, her skirts pulling and poofing around her, before he caught her and brought her back into dance position. She could almost hear music playing, swelling inside of her.
Mother had once told her about this perfect twining into one. She called it interweave, and said it was hard to do, for it took the perfect matching of the partners’ strengths to overshadow each other’s weaknesses, meshing into one glorious dance. Azalea felt the giddiness of being locked in not a pairing, but a dance. So starkly different than dancing with Keeper. Never that horrid feeling that she owed him something; no holding her breath, wishing for the dance to end. Now, spinning from Mr. Bradford’s hand, her eyes closed, spinning back and feeling him catch her, she felt the thrill of the dance, of being matched, flow through her.
”Heavens, you’re good!” said Azalea, breathless.
”You’re stupendous,” said Mr. Bradford, just as breathless. “It’s like dancing with a top!”
― Entwined
Mother had once told her about this perfect twining into one. She called it interweave, and said it was hard to do, for it took the perfect matching of the partners’ strengths to overshadow each other’s weaknesses, meshing into one glorious dance. Azalea felt the giddiness of being locked in not a pairing, but a dance. So starkly different than dancing with Keeper. Never that horrid feeling that she owed him something; no holding her breath, wishing for the dance to end. Now, spinning from Mr. Bradford’s hand, her eyes closed, spinning back and feeling him catch her, she felt the thrill of the dance, of being matched, flow through her.
”Heavens, you’re good!” said Azalea, breathless.
”You’re stupendous,” said Mr. Bradford, just as breathless. “It’s like dancing with a top!”
― Entwined
Into the Forest
— 2147 members
— last activity May 31, 2026 08:32PM
A group to discuss the fairy and folk tales, world mythologies, mythic fiction, magical realism fiction, and monsters. Of course, we also discuss rete ...more
Book Bloggers of Goodreads
— 3027 members
— last activity May 14, 2026 10:12PM
This is a group for the book bloggers of Goodreads and authors seeking reviews. Book bloggers: post events, reviews, giveaways, ask questions, share l ...more
The F-word
— 5760 members
— last activity Jan 16, 2026 02:23PM
This is our reading group for anybody who loves to read and identifies as a feminist. We'll be reading a variety of books that may fall into one of th ...more
Haaave Ya Met...
— 1176 members
— last activity May 01, 2026 09:16AM
Networking for authors, beta readers, editors, reviewers, and book bloggers.
The Seasonal Reading Challenge
— 9261 members
— last activity 3 hours, 39 min ago
Do you want to broaden your reading horizons and discover new books, authors and genres? Do you love reading challenges? Do you live for competition? ...more
Bitsy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Bitsy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
483 books
|
4,239 friends
2,009 books
|
1,241 friends
4,319 books
|
580 friends
9,013 books
|
601 friends
3,592 books
|
332 friends
6,949 books
|
547 friends
1,866 books
|
6,313 friends
2,808 books
|
4,180 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Bitsy
Lists liked by Bitsy
