BeeChu

"She wonders whether what comes next could ever live up to the expectations. She doesn’t know. You never can. She turns the page anyway." - Book Lovers by E.H.

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Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)

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Geisha, a Life

Mineko Iwasaki

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The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom

Shari Franke

From eldest daughter Shari Franke, the shocking true story behind the viral 8 Passengers family vlog and the hidden abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother, and how, in the face of unimaginable pain, she found freedom and healing. Shari Franke’s childhood was a constant battle for survival. Her mother, Ruby Franke, enforced a severe moral code while maintaining a façade of a picture-perfect family for their wildly popular YouTube channel 8 Passengers, which documented the day-to-day life of raising six children for a staggering 2.5 million subscribers. But a darker truth lurked beneath the surface—Ruby’s wholesome online persona masked a more tyrannical parenting style than anyone could have imagined. As the family’s YouTube notoriety grew, so too did Ruby’s delusions of righteousness. Fueled by the sadistic influence of relationship coach Jodi Hildebrandt, together they implemented an inhumane and merciless disciplinary regime. Ruby and Jodi were arrested in Utah in 2023 on multiple charges of aggravated child abuse. On that fateful day, Shari shared a photo online of a police car outside their home. Her caption had one word: “Finally.” For the first time, Shari will reveal the disturbing truth behind 8 Passengers and her family’s devastating involvement with Jodi Hildebrandt’s cultish life coaching program, “ConneXions.” No stone is left unturned as Shari exposes the perils of influencer culture and shares for the first time her battle for truth and survival in the face of her mother’s cruelty.

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Geisha, a Life

Mineko Iwasaki

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Geisha, a Life

Mineko Iwasaki

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The Dog Stars

Peter Heller

Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley. But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return and follows its static-broken trail, only to find something that is both better and worse than anything he could ever hope for.

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Geisha, a Life

Mineko Iwasaki

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Autobiography of a Geisha

Sayo Masuda

Sayo Masuda's story is an extraordinary portrait of rural life in japan and an illuminating contrast to the fictionalised lives of glamorous geishas.At the age of sis Masuda's poverty-stricken family sent her to work as a nursemaid. At the age of twelve, she was indentured to a geisha house. In Autobiography of a Geisha, Masuda chronicles a harsh world in which young women faced the realities of sex for sale and were deprived of their freedom and identity. She also tells of her life after leaving the geisha house, painting a vivid panorama of the grinding poverty of rural life in wartime Japan. Many years later Masuda decides to tell her story. Although she could barely read or write she was determine to tell the truth about life as a geisha and explode the myths surrounding their secret world. Remarkably frank and incredibly moving, this is the record of one woman's survival on the margins of Japanese society.

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BeeChu

Apr 16, 2026

4.5

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0

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Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.

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Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

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Thoughts from 52% - To Be Influenced & The Art of Influence - Kindle Edition

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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Caitlin Doughty

The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with “dignity.” Fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for their dead. In rural Indonesia, she observes a man clean and dress his grandfather’s mummified body. Grandpa’s mummy has lived in the family home for two years, where the family has maintained a warm and respectful relationship. She meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls), and introduces us to a Japanese kotsuage, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved-ones’ bones from cremation ashes. With curiosity and morbid humor, Doughty encounters vividly decomposed bodies and participates in compelling, powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in America. Featuring Gorey-esque illustrations by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity introduces death-care innovators researching green burial and body composting, explores new spaces for mourning—including a glowing-Buddha columbarium in Japan and America’s only open-air pyre—and reveals unexpected new possibilities for our own death rituals.

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“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable: it’s Kindness infinite” I already love the writing

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Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

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This or That? Food & Drink Edition

To paint the picture: It's a rainy, semi warm day, you have your favorite comfy clothes on, a clear calendar, and your current read. All that's left is the beverage. Tea or Coffee?

To paint the picture: You're at the beach, sun is shining, seagulls are in the air, toes in the sand, and your last read. It's time for a nice summer snack. A bag of chips or fresh fruit?

To paint the picture: It's late at night, partners and creatures deep asleep, just you and your next planned read. You find you stomach rumbling for something sweet. Chocolate chip cookies or Ice cream?

Just a fun, small post since I don't have any grand ideas today (mental fatigue is real).

Stay creepy lovelies, Crow

Edit: I'm bouncing between work and PB, so if I miss your comment, I'm sorry and thank you for being here!

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Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

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Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

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CrowSong

Edited

This or That? Food & Drink Edition

To paint the picture: It's a rainy, semi warm day, you have your favorite comfy clothes on, a clear calendar, and your current read. All that's left is the beverage. Tea or Coffee?

To paint the picture: You're at the beach, sun is shining, seagulls are in the air, toes in the sand, and your last read. It's time for a nice summer snack. A bag of chips or fresh fruit?

Just a fun, small post since I don't have any grand ideas today (mental fatigue is real).

Stay creepy lovelies, Crow

Edit: I'm bouncing between work and PB, so if I miss your comment, I'm sorry and thank you for being here!

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