Kathleen Porter

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Kathleen is Currently Reading

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Paul: A Biography

by N.T. Wright

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American Dirt

by Jeanine Cummins (Goodreads Author)

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No Brainer: A funny middle school adventure from the #1 international bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series (Book 18)

by Jeff Kinney (Goodreads Author)

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Kathleen’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

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“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.” —T. S. Eliot

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“Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

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“Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him.
Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.”
― A. A. Milne

tags: eeyore, humor, piglet, river, wet

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“Take it slow, little by little. Remember, every small step you take now is adding to bigger change later. Change builds exponentially, with increasing momentum, multiplying on itself.”
― Susan Rose Blauner, How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me: One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention

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“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

tags: barriers, challenges, failure, failures, inspirational, perseverance

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Kathleen’s Groups

NexGen Librarians — 22 members — last activity Jan 02, 2008 05:51PM
The Goodreads group for the NexGen Librarians list.

FHS Warriors Talk about Books — 1 member — last activity Nov 15, 2012 10:46AM
Members of the Foxborough (Mass.) High School learning community share their opinions on a wide range of content, with an initial focus on YA fiction.

Goodreads Librarians Group — 314725 members — last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

The YA and Middle Grade Fiction Group — 372 members — last activity Feb 25, 2026 08:37AM
The YA and Middle Grade Fiction Group is a public group featuring discussions on and the new releases of young adult and middle grade fiction. This gr ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22556 members — last activity Feb 16, 2026 08:36PM
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

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