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“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: books

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“Late Fragment

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.”
― Raymond Carver, A New Path to the Waterfall

tags: love, poetry

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YA Reads for Teachers (And Any Other Adults!) — 1917 members — last activity Mar 02, 2026 06:13AM
We are a group of educators (teachers, media specialists / librarians, and home school teachers) parents and other adult fans of young adult and child ...more

Netherlands & Flanders group — 1662 members — last activity Jun 25, 2026 02:04AM
This group is for Dutch/Flemish readers mainly and offers a broad range of topics. However, the group is also meant for readers outside of the Netherl ...more

Teachers' Book Club — 655 members — last activity Dec 04, 2022 05:05PM
Talk about books you are reading for your own enjoyment or to use with students.