so-soWork demands have turned me into a weekend reader & poster!! I miss opening up Litsy every day!
Book felt slow and even though it did give some great insight into life with people diagnosed with mental illness such as schizophrenia, I was sort of bored through most of the story. Also, I didn‘t understand any of the (few) Patty Hearst references made throughout.
However - this satisfies my DADA OWL!
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Why am I like this? 😂 Out of all of the books I‘m “currently reading”, I‘m only actively reading 2. Does anyone else do this? 🤔
The tagged is the only one I‘m actually interested in. I‘m dragging myself through the Dreiser for a challenge.
The Name of the Wind is so slow that it lost my attention, and Lily was starting to sound too sad, so those have both been patiently sitting by my bedside waiting to be loved again 🤷🏻♀️
The lives of people I stole from looked so easy. And as a child it never occurred to me that such lives could be earned. I figured life was something that was forced upon you and that you endured.
My next read offers some insight into the mind of a woman with schizophrenia, and the effect it has on the author‘s childhood. I have no previous knowledge of Patty Hearst and don‘t know much about the 1970s, so the references in this novel don‘t mean anything to me. So far, I‘m not really emotionally attached to the story, but it is interesting.
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Love this #dysfunctionalfamilies theme. I'm drawn to such stories as they make me feel perhaps my N. Ga. family tree that lacks branches is, in fact, the norm! Holman presents a sometimes dark, sometimes funny portrait of a family dealing with the mother's late-onset schizophrenia from the point of view of the daughter, describing not only a childhood dealing with familial mental illness, but the continuing effects in adulthood. Fascinating.
Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories from a Decade Gone Mad | 
