Ariel

Ariel’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (1618)
currently-reading‎ (1)
read‎ (1036)
borrowed‎ (339)
audiobooked‎ (335)
contemp-lit‎ (266)
non-fict‎ (241)
non-fict-to-read‎ (173)
perspectives‎ (132)
book-club‎ (122)
sci-fi-and-fantasy‎ (113)
2021‎ (112)

can-t-borrow‎ (101)
2023‎ (100)
2024‎ (98)
2022‎ (85)
kindle‎ (85)
2025‎ (73)
memoir‎ (64)
rethink-the-system‎ (63)
historial-ish-fiction‎ (61)
highlights‎ (48)
mood-moxie‎ (41)
collegereads‎ (39)

lat-am-lit‎ (37)
featured‎ (33)
nature-and-science‎ (32)
fluff‎ (29)
mood-journies‎ (29)
mood-big-west‎ (27)
started-will-finish-someday‎ (27)
vict-lit‎ (22)
outside-50-states‎ (21)
poetry‎ (21)
recommended‎ (21)
would-read-again‎ (21)

mood-just-magic‎ (17)
short-fict‎ (17)
reccomendations‎ (16)
a-certain-type-of-young-woman‎ (15)
mood-gmtfo‎ (13)
for-work‎ (11)
cookbooks‎ (10)
reference‎ (10)
2020-run-away-from-it-all-books‎ (9)
2021-tops‎ (9)
i-like-what-you-did-there‎ (9)
favorites‎ (7)

Stats | More…

Ariel is Currently Reading

Ariel is currently reading

How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

by Deb Chachra

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Mar 31, 2025 07:36AM

Ariel’s Notes & Highlights

Claiming Ground by Laura Bell

1 highlight

How can we not run on a spring morning with our hearts stretched wide?

See Ariel’s 13 books with notes and highlights…

Ariel’s Quotes

“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: love, self-love

333 likes

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”
― Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water

tags: environment, nature, wilderness

303 likes

“It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.”
― Wallace Stegner

136 likes

“Please remember: things are not what they seem.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

223 likes

“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: hope, love

2383 likes

More of Ariel’s quotes…