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Miss Benson's Beetle

by Rachel Joyce

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Dec 20, 2025 03:17AM

“I have learned that all anyone ever wants is to feel at peace with the sadness and love they have cobbled together into a life, with opportunities missed and those misguidedly taken...”
― Rebecca Coleman, The Kingdom of Childhood

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“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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“How wild it was, to let it be.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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“Sifting through an urn of cremated remains you cannot tell if a person had successes, failures, grandchildren, felonies. “For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

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This is a group for audiobook lovers to hang out and talk about what they are listening to. Looking for author and narrator recommendations this is th ...more

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WELCOME BOOK DRAGONS! We are a new book club from people you follow (or at least should be following) on bookstagram! Each month we will pick a book ...more

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Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

BOOKBUSTERS | BookClub — 2943 members — last activity Jun 15, 2025 01:50PM
ANYONE (booktuber or not) can join! Each month, we will read a young adult book that corresponds to a genre on our "genre calendar". Then, we'll have ...more

Our Shared Shelf — 223368 members — last activity Dec 16, 2025 12:22AM
OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more

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