Home for Unwanted Girls: The Heart-Wrenching, Gripping Story of a Mother-Daughter Bond That Could Not Be Broken - Inspired by True Events | 
pickThis book gave me all of the feels! A heartbreaking and gut wrenching story based on the Duplesiss orphans. This one will stick with me for some time to come!
pickA heartbreaking story of a young orphan, Elodie's life living in Quebec during a time when orphanages were converted to mental institutions and her mother's quest to reunite with her after being forced to put her up for adoption.
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I am trying to read more so I downloaded this app to post the books I am reading. I am extremely forgetful and tend to pick up a book, get about 1 chapter in then realize I have already read the book. I am here so I can document what I have read and don't make this mistake as often.
I just finished this book today and couldn't put it down.
so-soSome parts of this are tough because of what is going on in the story and some parts of this are tough because this was a bit longer than it should have been.
pickThe novel is based on a true story. 1950s in Québec, 15 year old Maggie is forced by her parents to give her newborn daughter to adoption. She spends next 20 years looking for her... Didn't know about Duplessis orphans before reading this. Great book, I've read it in a day!
pickConsider this one crushed! I spent the day putting up my Christmas decorations while flying through this one. What a beautifully written touching story. I'm so mad at myself for waiting so long to read this one. Definitely a 5 star read for me. #bookspinbingo #CrushTheRush
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I started this one last night. This has been on my TBR for a while. I recently won the follow-up to this in a Goodreads Giveaway so this became a 2020 Must Read for me. This will be my first for the #CrushTheRush readathon.
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pickSuch an amazing story. I loved the different perspectives and loved all the characters. So beautifully written to convey the situation as well as the emotions. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickA heartwrenching piece of historical fiction. I am horrified and enraged about what happened to the Duplessis orphans. And outraged that the Catholic Church has not been forced to make amends for their complicity. For those who want to learn a little more ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplessis_Orphans
I had all the feels throughout this incredible book. A well written story about the unbroken bond between a mother and child. Time is of no significance in the end as love prevails. In addition, a sad lesson in history - this story is loosely tied to the true story of the Duplessis Orphans, who were falsely certified as mentally ill in the 1950s in Quebec. Highly recommend, especially if you are a mother.
pickThe story of a young mother forced to put her daughter into an orphanage, and the searching, each for the other, that results.
I loved the Canadian setting, resulting in some French dialog. I enjoyed the family seed store business. The combination of farming life and small town culture felt familiar to me, very similar to my upbringing in Northern New England.
Thanks Misty! Another good book!
“No one can love you like I do.”
“Or hurt me as much.” Page 185
Thank you @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks for the birthday goodies! (I couldn‘t resist opening them early.) 🎂😁. I don‘t have this book and I have been wanting to read it! I love the bookmarks too! Thanks for everything. #LitsyLove
Don‘t let her grumpy face fool you; this book is off to a good start!
I listened to this on my commute which is only 20 to 30 minutes each way. Such a sad story. It was a good one to listen to in small chunks at a time.
so-soI suppose this book was well written enough, but my judgment is probably clouded by how much anxiety it caused me while reading it during an already anxiety ridden portion of my life. I didn‘t even know the story was based on true events until after reading. That only made me sadder. Adoption is never easy, but I can‘t even imagine what it must be like to assume you‘re giving your child its best chance at a good life only to find out otherwise.
“In spite of everything, Maggie has managed to turn out all right. She is a mother of three children- all of them here tonight in the house she loves so much; she is a wife, a lover of seeds and language, a French woman with English blood, an English woman with French blood. She is neither fully one thing nor another, as she‘s always wanted to be. She is arrogant and humble, audacious and timid, alive. She is still growing and always will be.”
pickBeing Acadian, I have always been aware of the tensions between the English and the French in Canada. The attempts at ethnic cleansing and the extreme prejudices that existed. Not to mention the issues with religion. But I have never heard of the Duplessis Orphans until now. This book is beautifully written. It brings you on an emotional ride from start to finish. Read it with tissues. You will love it and you will learn things. 5⭐️
Some liquid courage (all the way from Belgium😍😎) to continue reading this horribly sad and heart breaking book. The atrocities people do to each other!!!😳😥😳😥😳😥
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2. Probably somewhere warm and sunny.
3. Quebec
4. Braaivleis (meat prepared over and open fire) / braaibroodjies (also toasted over the same fire as the meat) potjiekos (also open fire food) / mieliepap and biltong & droëwors
5. All the love the all the South Africans here and abroad!
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Delicious fresh fruit, yoghurt and icy water and a book! Happiness!!!😊😊😊
pickAn excellent historical fiction read. I loved everything about this book! I enjoyed learning about the French/English social climate of Quebec during this time period. The characters were all very complex and felt real.
pickI really enjoyed this book. Joanna Goodman did a great job in drawing the reader in early, a huge deal for me when it comes to reading. I have been reading a lot of historical fiction recently based during WW2 so this was a nice break from that! I never knew about this point in history in Quebec and the divide between the English and the French Canadians. Must read!
pickThis book was well written and heartbreaking, I highly recommend it.
I haven‘t gotten to this one yet, but I really want to! I may move it up!!
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pickMy #bookclub will discuss this Wednesday. I liked it but had some quibbles with the characters and the plot, enough that I changed my GR rating to 3 stars from 4 after I thought about it awhile. 😂 Still, I had never heard of this piece of Quebec history and I‘m glad I know it now. I want to read some non fiction about it but I can‘t find any that isn‘t in French.
Book 3 of 2019, so good!
And fun to read a Canadian author again.
pickThis is based on the true history of Quebec orphanages in the 1950s. Orphanages were changed into mental institutions because they received more money for mental patients than for orphans. 😥 Very sad situation for so many young children.
Very riveting book! Kept you wanting to know how it would all turn out.
Ski weekend in Vail, so I‘m enjoying the fireplace in our condo.
My favorite books of the year, did anyone else enjoy these?
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