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But even if they had seen her, Nella sensed that neither would have said anything differently. Her colleagues, strangely, had made it clear very early on that they didn’t really see her as a young Black woman, but as a young woman who just
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”
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Shine & Shadow
— 828 members
— last activity Oct 18, 2026 04:37AM
Welcome to Shine & Shadow. We are a group focused on monthly group reads and discussions. We have 3 group reads on a rotating monthly basis: 1 'Dark' ...more
Silent Book Club-Zooming Around the World
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This Silent Book Club is where members from all over the world come and bring whatever book they are reading and we read silently for an hour, after t ...more
Virtual Silent Book Group - Literary Fiction by People of Color
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— last activity Aug 09, 2026 01:07PM
A Silent Book Club is where members from all over the world come and bring whatever book they are reading and we read silently for an hour, after the ...more
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