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Benjamin is Currently Reading

Benjamin Johansson is currently reading

The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

by C.S. Lewis

bookshelves: classics-and-modern-classics, fantasy, future-rereads, currently-reading

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Feb 12, 2022 12:54AM

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Piranesi

by Susanna Clarke

bookshelves: fantasy, at-home-tbr, currently-reading

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Apr 13, 2026 02:35PM

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Wednesday’s Child

by Yiyun Li

bookshelves: storytel, tbr-prio, short-stories, currently-reading

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"Hello, Goodbye. Reread. Another solid story. Reflective but funny at times." — Apr 12, 2026 01:42PM

Mar 18, 2026 02:52PM

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“But I’ve always supposed it was the music in his head, some hopeful tune the rest of us couldn’t hear, the same secret melody he’d been humming when he bought that trigonometry book, or saved all those pencil shavings.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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“Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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“But vindication has no power over guilt. No amount of anger or rage directed at others can subdue it, because guilt is never about them. Guilt is the fear of one’s own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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“To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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“Despite the singularity of her childhood, the questions her book poses are universal: How much of ourselves should we give to those we love? And how much must we betray them to grow up?”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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