1114 ratings (4.07 avg)
1078 reviews

#36 best reviewers

Jim Fonseca

http://www.jimwfonseca.com/

https://www.goodreads.com/jimwfonseca

Jim’s Bookshelves

read‎ (1133)
currently-reading‎ (0)
to-read‎ (12)
french-authors‎ (103)
american-authors‎ (99)
japanese-authors‎ (88)
short-stories‎ (83)
italian-authors‎ (77)
british-authors‎ (72)
spanish‎ (60)
detective-stories‎ (59)
nobel-prize‎ (50)

favorite-books‎ (47)
historical-novel‎ (47)
fantasy‎ (42)
irish-authors‎ (42)
psychological-novel‎ (37)
portuguese-authors‎ (34)
spanish-authors‎ (34)
german-authors‎ (33)
murder-mystery‎ (33)
mystery‎ (31)
non-fiction‎ (30)
french‎ (29)

russian-authors‎ (29)
brazilian-authors‎ (28)
police-procedural‎ (28)
novella‎ (27)
world-war-ii‎ (26)
swedish-authors‎ (25)
thriller‎ (25)
classic‎ (24)
coming-of-age‎ (23)
feminist‎ (23)
paris‎ (23)
philosophy‎ (23)

portuguese‎ (22)
argentinian-authors‎ (21)
war‎ (21)
jewish-authors‎ (20)
rural-poverty‎ (20)
dystopian‎ (19)
humor‎ (19)
japan‎ (19)
suicide‎ (19)
colonialism‎ (18)
gay-theme‎ (18)
psychological-thriller‎ (18)

Stats | More…

Jim’s Quotes

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

tags: confidence, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, life, life-philosophy, optimism, power-of-words

2464 likes

“If it was true what her mother had once told her, then nothing rang the telephone like death in the middle of the night.”
― Edward P Jones

2 likes

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity

3957 likes

Portuguese-American & Portuguese-Canadian Literature — 32 members — last activity Apr 20, 2020 08:11AM
This group, dedicated to Portuguese-American and Portuguese-Canadian Literature, focuses on the increasingly present literary conversation between the ...more

Around the World in 80 Books — 26533 members — last activity 2 hours, 54 min ago
Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or explorin ...more

South Shore Readers — 475 members — last activity May 03, 2022 06:20PM
A group for book lovers from the South Shore area of Massachusetts. We can discuss area bookstores, libraries, favorite books, book-related events, bo ...more

Reading the Classics — 4114 members — last activity Oct 31, 2022 05:31PM
This is a group for people who want to read the classics and discuss them as a group. Each month we will choose as a group a book to read. Everyone is ...more

FACTION NOVELS (non-fiction novels) — 116 members — last activity Feb 25, 2023 03:54AM
FACTION, non-fiction novel is a literary genre which, broadly speaking, depicts real historical figures and actual events woven together with fictitio ...more

More of Jim’s groups…