Discover new books on Goodreads

Meet your next favorite book

342 ratings (4.07 avg)
71 reviews

Amber

Add friend

http://berlinswhimsy.typepad.com

https://www.goodreads.com/berlinswhimsy

Amber’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (62)
currently-reading‎ (3)
read‎ (386)
did-not-finish‎ (1)
audio‎ (46)

for-work‎ (23)
cookbooks‎ (10)
non-fiction‎ (10)
craft-books‎ (7)
fiction‎ (7)

book-club‎ (6)
suspense‎ (5)
graphic-novels‎ (4)
graphic-novel‎ (3)
baking‎ (1)

cooking‎ (1)
diverse-reads‎ (1)
fantasy‎ (1)
gardening‎ (1)
april-2025-book-club‎ (0)

Stats | More…

Amber is Currently Reading

Amber is currently reading

Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made

by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Goodreads Author)

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

progress:

(12%)
— 4 hours, 23 min ago

Sep 28, 2026 09:01AM

Amber is currently reading

The Witches of Cambridge (The Witches of Cambridge, #1)

by Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)

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

progress:

(6%)
— Sep 21, 2026 10:26PM

Sep 19, 2026 07:36AM

Amber is currently reading

All That's Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir

by Emilee Hackney (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, audio

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

progress:

(7%)
— Sep 18, 2026 03:11PM

Sep 18, 2026 03:11PM

Amber’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class by Rob Henderson

4 highlights

When adults let children down, children learn to let themselves down.

Amber’s Quotes

“But the books brought me things. This is my point. They made me feel less alone.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

69 likes

“It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

1054 likes

“If the queen had balls, she’d be the king.” If you go through life picking and choosing, if you don’t recognize that “the perfect is the enemy of the good,” you may deprive yourself of joy.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

95 likes

“All good things in life are fragile and easily lost”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

384 likes

“The wisdom that comes with age was needling, he found, because it brought the clarity of hindsight without the means to change anything.”
― Patrick Ryan, Buckeye

14 likes

More of Amber’s quotes…

recent posts
Amber’s Groups

First Thursday Mystery Book Club Group — 4 members — last activity Feb 28, 2022 09:20AM
A group for Crook County Library's mystery book club. ...more

Kindle Book Club Forum — 1282 members — last activity 8 hours, 37 min ago
Welcome to the Kindle Book Club Forum. You don’t need a Kindle to join us, nor do you need a degree in literary criticism! All you need is love for bo ...more

Crook County Library Book Club — 2 members — last activity Apr 25, 2025 03:52PM
We read a book a month and discuss the books we read on the first Monday of each month at 12 PM. If you are not able to join us in person, feel free t ...more

A Million More Pages — 2269 members — last activity 34 minutes ago
Welcome to The Literary Amazing Race! A Million More Pages (AMMP) is a reading group built around creative, challenge-based reading. Our challenges e ...more

♥ Nothing Better Than Reading!! ♥ — 6322 members — last activity Sep 28, 2026 01:51PM
We strongly believe that life means happiness and happiness means books. And what's more, we have room for everyone here! Slow reader, quick reader, ...more

More of Amber’s groups…