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Beth is Currently Reading

Beth is currently reading

The Austen Affair

by Madeline Bell (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 25, 2025 04:48PM

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The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things

by Paula Byrne

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Dec 16, 2025 02:46PM

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Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World

by Edward Dolnick

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Beth’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul

The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul by Scott W. Berg

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Few Chicagoans cared any longer whether Kate Leary had started the fire or how. Instead, she became a universal emblem of the Great Fire and of Chicago’s working class itself, a handy personification of persistent notions about the ...more

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Beth’s Groups

Reading Buddies (Erin Reads) — 22 members — last activity Jun 30, 2014 01:07PM
This group is a supplement to the Reading Buddies project over on Erin Reads. If you're reading along and would like to discuss with other participant ...more

Dead End Follies — 41 members — last activity Jul 18, 2011 07:22AM
Just like the web site, this is a no hold barred place where discussions on books, movies, writing and pop culture is going on. Welcome!

Classic Literature book club — 79 members — last activity Nov 11, 2013 01:01AM
The purpose of this book club will be to start focusing and reading all the classics that readers tend to forget about. We get enough advertisement on ...more

genre X — 218 members — last activity Mar 18, 2025 12:36PM
genre X meets every third Thursday at 8 pm, (usually at a restaurant in the Oak Park/Forest Park area), discussing great books over food & drinks. You ...more

Books and Booze — 6 members — last activity Jan 27, 2015 09:27PM
A Meetup bookclub devoted to getting together once a month to enjoy the glasses of wine (always) and discuss the books we read (sometimes).

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