Finally! I‘m reunited with my hair stylist Jenna! Starting this chunkster while I process.
Finally! I‘m reunited with my hair stylist Jenna! Starting this chunkster while I process.
ANOTHER DNF!!! I had this one in audio. 23 hours of petty complaining and making mountains out of tiny mole-hills. He thinks he has mother issues? Pull up a chair buddy! I made it to CD #4 of 19. The end of the year is near and I cannot spend it suffering through a bad audiobook experience. 😣
All while reading this book I kept saying "Wow" out loud. Thats exactly what I said at the end. I really loved this perfect depiction of a dysfunctional family, dysfunctional people and the eventual lesson that most of us are out here just doing our best to make it. "Love is the medicine" as Theroux says. We all need to work towards loving hard and loving deep. "Shower the people you love with love." -James Taylor #lyrics ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
People who read widely and with fervor learn a language and inhabit a world that is different than the world of a nonreader.-Paul Theroux
And now finishing up this...but I do not want it to end...
I just realized that I keep saying "Wow" out loud while reading this book.
This book is so very good. I have some work to do but have not been able to stop reading. Psychologically intense, to say the least...
It was time for a novel and, thankfully, I LOVE it. I have never read Paul Theroux before but I am already a fan.
Here is another book I want to read but cannot renew. I selfishly do not want to turn it in...Don't want to pay the fines either...What a dilemma...
#TBRtemptation post 4! Released in May. This is a dark comedy about a family held together and torn apart by an elderly matriarch. To her Cape Cod neighbors, she's seen as an upstanding pillar, to her husband & seven children, Mother is seen as a selfish tyrant. An eclectic cast of characters make up this family struggle that touches on family and loyalty, respect and tolerance, and asks if blood is thicker than water. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎
#bookhaul from a used bookstore in Upper West Side coined "Westsider Books". Been eyeing these books for awhile so I was happy to get such good prices!
#nyc #somanybooks #bookaholic
Ah...a long awaited library Book Haul. #libraryhaul
paul theroux bringing dysfunctional-family realness
I enjoy reading well written book reviews. Stephen King' s review of Mother Land in the NYT expresses his mixed thoughts on this book. I appreciate that he gives no judgement as to whether or not someone should read it. But, instead relates his own reading experience.
Stephen King on Paul Theroux‘s Portrait of a Truly Horrible Mother https://nyti.ms/2pZfc5k