## Review Date #note/sourcereview/book | #source/book📚/fiction ## What is the story Miss Benson abandons her unloved job as a schoolteacher in search of her childhood obsession, the golden beetle of New Caledonia. Through adversity, Miss Benson and her assistant discover their true selves and thus are able to define their real power as women. ## What else do I wonder about? What other books are similar? This book has a fantastic balance of nice heart and motivating story, energetic writing, great voice. ## Action File this under happy stories ## When do I want to stumble across this? When I want to think about #people/brenebrown and [[wholehearted]] as a concept. This book embraces the wholehearted philosophy. ## Source: Joyce, R. (2020). _Miss Benson’s beetle_ (First Edition). The Dial Press. ## References, Quotes, Ideas ```dataview table file.mtime.year + "-" + file.mtime.month + "-" + file.mtime.day as Modified from [[Miss Benson's Beetle]] and !outgoing([[Miss Benson's Beetle]]) sort file.mtime desc ```