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Post by worrywart on May 8, 2024 16:09:02 GMT
Finished The Women by Kristin Hannah - I liked it a lot though it was somewhat predictable. Good book. 4.5 stars.
Reading Everyone is Watching by Heather Gudenkauf - trying to hang on not sure I will make it.
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The Birdhouse Lady
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Post by The Birdhouse Lady on May 8, 2024 22:11:28 GMT
I haven't had the time to read much lately but the last two I read were written by Lisa Jewell
The first one was The House We Grew Up In
Lorelei Bird raised her four children and husband in a happy, picturesque home in England. So how is that she ended her life starving, alone, and surrounded by junk?
I found this interesting and heart breaking. It gets into the mind of a hoarder as well as what hoarding does to the lives of the people who love her. I thought Lisa Jewell wove this into a wonderful story.
The second was The Night She Disappeared
On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. Known locally as the Dark Place, the dense forest is the writers favorite place for long walks and it's on one such walk that she stumbles upon a mysterious note that simple reads "DIG HERE"
I enjoyed it, but it wasn't a top read for me. It did keep my attention until the end.
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Post by peasapie on May 9, 2024 10:42:49 GMT
I’ve read a few since I last posted, but the one I finished last night will stay with me for ever. Motherwell by Deborah Orr is a well-respected memoir by a journalist who wrote primarily for The Guardian. It’s about her childhood growing up in the town of Motherwell in Central Scotland. She was born the year before me, Motherwell is the town next door to where I grew up, and there were so many coincidences between our lives that I could have written half of the book. Sometimes the memories it evoked were so intense that I had to stop reading just to breathe. She even mentioned a friend she made at her Saturday job who was my friend in high school! She had a highly problematic relationship with her parents, especially her mother. And while I had many of the same issues with my mum, I got off lucky by comparison. When I finished the book, I looked up the author’s obituary online, and in a final strange coincidence saw that she died on my birthday in 2019. 😕 I have a bit of a book hangover now, and might just need to read magazines over the next couple of weeks. This is amazing! How did you happen upon this book that has so many connections to your life? |
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Post by peasapie on May 9, 2024 10:59:58 GMT
Our book club read Bono’s Surrender this month. What a slog it was for me. One member of the book club had liked it so much and kept bringing it up whenever we discussed book suggestions, so eventually we added it to the rotation. I guess if you’re a U2 fan it is much more compelling. It was just not interesting to me and would have been a DNF if it hadn’t been a book club read.
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lesley
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Post by lesley on May 9, 2024 12:11:52 GMT
This is amazing! How did you happen upon this book that has so many connections to your life? My XDH picked it up in a charity shop, and as soon as he started reading it, knew I would love it. He remarked he felt so much of it resonated 'by proxy', because of his knowledge of my childhood. 😊 |
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