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People We Meet on Vacation

by Emily Henry (Goodreads Author)

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It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

by Ramani Durvasula (Goodreads Author)

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Book cover for Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb

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We tend to think that the future happens later, but we’re creating it in our minds every day. When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. And having the future taken away is the mother of all plot twists. But ...more

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“I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

tags: companionship, marriage, silence, talk

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“People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.”
― Sue Monk Kidd

tags: bees, life, secret

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“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-wicked-reading

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“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

tags: humor, reading

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“Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.”
― Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree

tags: books, culture, humor, love-of-reading, reading, sports

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This group now has a Discord! https://discord.gg/QC8vCNfzKa I would encourage everyone to join as it will become a primary hub for book-of-the-month d ...more

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You just found the Official unofficial Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club. We will read the Goodreads Choice Awards winning books throughout the year b ...more

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A group to discuss books and topics mentioned on Books on the Nightstand, a blog and podcast about books and reading.

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The first book we will be reading is "Beautiful Ruins" by Jess Walter. "Hopscotching between 1960s Italy and contemporary Hollywood, “Beautiful Ruins” ...more

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