{"quotes":[{"text":"We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["amwriting","aphorism","aphorisms","book-club","book-review","book-reviews","books","bored","boredom","ignorance","ignorant","literature","reading","review","reviews","subjective","subjectivity","writers","writing"],"id":3237,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.","author":"Janet Goodfriend","tags":["art","best","book-club","cape-cod","character","community","debut","environment","fiction","green","heist","literary","martha-s-vineyard","motherhood","must-read","school","social"],"id":131407,"author_id":"Janet+Goodfriend"},{"text":"The ‘coons had enjoyed a real party, and my trashcan had been the piñata! They’d obviously indulged in an evening of feasting on our wares and then staggered off the property loaded up with our birdseed as a little take-home gift!","author":"Suzanne Kelman","tags":["book-club","friendship","humor","writers"],"id":251493,"author_id":"Suzanne+Kelman"},{"text":"The first rule of book club - is that nobody wants to talk about book club.","author":"Douglas Lewis","tags":["book-club","comedy","humor","humorous"],"id":255533,"author_id":"Douglas+Lewis"},{"text":"I soon forgot about my bedraggled appearance. Until, that is, an old man shuffled in and propped himself, hunched and wheezing, over the check-in desk. Karen asked him if he needed assistance. “No,” he grunted sucking on his teeth, “your wet-T-shirt librarian with the punk rock hair is helping me out just fine.","author":"Suzanne Kelman","tags":["book-club","friendship","humor","writers"],"id":256865,"author_id":"Suzanne+Kelman"},{"text":"There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about.","author":"Joyce Rachelle","tags":["better-together","book-club","book-group","finding-your-passion","friends","hobbies","likes-and-dislikes","passion"],"id":268082,"author_id":"Joyce+Rachelle"},{"text":"One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.","author":"Fredrik Backman","tags":["book-club","book-clubs","humor","inspiration","inspirational","philosophy"],"id":308607,"author_id":"Fredrik+Backman"},{"text":"To hell with what anyone thinks about your life, but you should know what you think about it.","author":"Abby Fabiaschi","tags":["book-club","inspirational","motherhood","self-awareness","self-esteem","self-help","self-improvement","self-love"],"id":331907,"author_id":"Abby+Fabiaschi"},{"text":"The face that greeted me, however, was far from welcoming, it was a miniature stick insect of a woman with wiry white hair and enormous glasses that emphasized her heavily wrinkled face. She blinked twice and looked me up and down. By the look on her face, she wasn’t that impressed with what she saw. “Who is it, Ethel?”She responded, “It’s some homeless woman. She looks like she needs money and a good wash.” And I thought I’d already reached the lowest point of my day.","author":"Suzanne Kelman","tags":["book-club","friendship","humor","writers"],"id":372599,"author_id":"Suzanne+Kelman"},{"text":"The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["book","book-club","book-lunch","books","brain","companion","education","encouragement","encyclopedia","knowledge","library","life","lifestyle","read","reading","research","scholarship","search-light","story","study","study-time","thinking","time"],"id":437128,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}