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Bee is Currently Reading

Bee is currently reading

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

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Sep 07, 2026 12:27PM

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Madonna in a Fur Coat

by Sabahattin Ali

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"This is the slowest story I’ve read in a while, but it is beautifully written" — Sep 08, 2026 04:27AM

Sep 08, 2026 04:29AM

Bee’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die

Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers

1 note & 8 highlights

“MERULO, GREAT SORCERER, COME TO ME NOW, AND I WILL HELP YOU SLAY OUR GOD!” I roared at the sky, standing as tall as my bad leg would allow.

Beth is Dead

by Katie Bernet

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Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

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Bee’s Quotes

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

tags: criticism, history

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“Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.”
― Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

tags: history, life

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