Category: Book Discussion
Notes, thoughts, feedback from JMRL book groups
“And then there was Jane.”
“He felt an uncertainty in the air, a feeling of change and of loss and of the gain of new and unfamiliar things.”
“In a culture of gratitude, everyone knows that gifts will follow the circle of reciprocity and flow back to you again.”
The very water that has long sustained it is erasing the island day by day, wave by wave.
Brown Baggers Selections June 2025-May 2026
“ANOTHER THING ABOUT THE RULES
Keep on, Jamilia, have no regrets; you’ve found your hard-sought happiness.
“With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill,” Hall observed. “The trick is to get back down alive.”
“What defines a family isn’t blood, but the secrets they share. Secrets that can bind them together, or bring them to their knees when revealed.”
The only way to know how long you are lost in the darkness is to be saved from it.
“Most men are more afraid of being thought cowards than of anything else, and a lot more afraid of being thought physical cowards than moral ones.”
