Sign in with Facebook
83 books
—
106 voters
“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
―
―
“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
―
―
“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.”
―
―
Joel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Joel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
399 books
|
137 friends
641 books
|
56 friends
2,815 books
|
95 friends
4,658 books
|
256 friends
1,794 books
|
296 friends
1,822 books
|
54 friends
791 books
|
27 friends
765 books
|
71 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by Joel
Lists liked by Joel
