edie3
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Jun 26, 2014 1:03:18 GMT
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Post by edie3 on Mar 15, 2023 13:30:14 GMT
The weird dreams are getting annoying I felt the same way about this book!
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Post by Bridget in MD on Mar 15, 2023 13:31:47 GMT
I missed last week's thread, so this is for 2 weeks: I finished Together We Will Go by J. Michael Straczynski. 4 Stars for Together We Will Go by J. Michael Straczynski. TW for the subject of suicide and assissted suicide. The premise: Failed writer Mark takes out an ad online: he’s bought a bus, hired a driver, and the plan is to drive to CA and drive the bus off a cliff. He’s offering a ride to anyone who wants to join him along the way, and for this final destination. Here's what's hard about this book: the unlikely group of people form bonds with each other, it is a bond very few can understand. I kept hoping they would realize they had something to live for, and change their minds. It makes you feel helpless and also great sympathy for those who live with this feeling too. 4 Stars for Take my Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez. Most folks have heard of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, but not US’s forced sterilization of poor young black girls. This is the story of Civil Townsend, a 1970s nurse, who worked at a birth control clinic in Montgomery, Alabama. She believes in helping women control the when and ifs of becoming pregnant, but her boss and even the US government have other thoughts. Civil tells her story in a dual-timeline approach -the second time is 2016, as she is explaining to her daughter what happened. This story is powerful and extremely sad, as we follow Civil's grief in providing Depo shots to 11 & 13 yr old sisters, and then later finding out they were steralized. But she also wrestles with trying to make it a mission to save this family, when she can only do so much, realizing that she too is overreaching. The last 2 books were super heavy, so I started reading The Sweet Spot by Amy Poeppel. Premise is: In the heart of Greenwich Village, three women form an accidental sorority when a baby—belonging to exactly none of them—lands on their collective doorstep. I'm here for these shennangians!
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Post by flanz on Mar 15, 2023 20:35:22 GMT
The weird dreams are getting annoying I felt the same way about this book! How weird. My comment quoted here is NINE YEARS OLD!~
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