Marissa

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

https://www.goodreads.com/marissadeen

The Word in the W...
Marissa is currently reading
by Malcolm Guite (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Paradise Lost
Marissa is currently reading
Reading for the 2nd time
read in June 2006
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Illiad of Hom...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 5 books that Marissa is reading…
Book cover for Come, Tell Me How You Live: An Archaeological Memoir
Many, many years ago, when going to the Riviera or to Paris, I used to be fascinated by the sight of the Orient Express at Calais and longed to be travelling by it. Now it has become an old familiar friend, but the thrill has never quite ...more
Loading...
Charles Frazier
“After years of loss and reflection, your old deluded decisions click together like the works of a watch packed tight within its case--many tiny, turning, interlocking wheels....the force of every decision transferring gear to gear, wheel to wheel, each one motivating a larger energy going in no direction but steep downward to darkness at an increasing pitch. And then one morning the world resembles Noah's flood, stretching unrecognizable to the horizon and you wonder how you go there. One thing for sure, it wasn't from a bad throw of dice or runes or an unfavorable turn of cards. Blame falls hard and can't be dodged by the guilty.”
Charles Frazier, Varina
tags: prose

Charlie Lovett
“Jane Austen never married,” he said in frustration. “She entered the male-dominated field of novel writing and her female heroines are strong, independent characters. Just what do you imagine a feminist in a rural English village in the late eighteenth century looks like?”
Charlie Lovett, The Lost Book of the Grail

Elizabeth Gilbert
“Fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
tags: fear

Charles Frazier
“Humans are inhuman, whether it’s by direct action or by acceptance of a horrible action as normal.”
Charles Frazier, Varina

Fredrik Backman
“The wind fights in the treetops; the leaves move in a hundred dialects of green...”
Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

1208612 The Emma M. Lion Appreciation Society — 365 members — last activity Mar 03, 2026 03:57AM
A place to discuss our love for The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, The Q, and any and all other masterpieces written by Beth Brower! Feel free t ...more
416138 Close Reads - Unofficial — 212 members — last activity Jan 11, 2023 06:00AM
A group for the Close Reads podcast
year in books
Captain...
1,191 books | 439 friends

Dianna
8,860 books | 81 friends

Deb
Deb
1,942 books | 558 friends

Abby
2,402 books | 183 friends

Liza
2,155 books | 208 friends

Kristie
1,821 books | 84 friends

Jacinta...
1,822 books | 175 friends

Chantel
1,189 books | 210 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Marissa

Lists liked by Marissa