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I finished the first book suggested by my friends. All of these books made them say WTF at some point

Happy Thursday!! I‘m not usually into memoirs, but this one read like fiction. Too bad it wasn‘t because this poor girl went through hell and survived it! Several triggered warnings…

I‘m giving this one away for my farewell to summer giveaway! 🧡 🍁🤎

Tell me your most anticipated upcoming release!!

#Farewelltosummer
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“Does your life feel authentically your own?”

Memoirs are not usually my genre of choice, but this one read like fiction. What mother would collude with her daughter to have an affair with her husband‘s best friend?! A narcissistic, terrible mother!! I wanted to shake her and hug Rennie! I couldn‘t believe how awful this woman was! I was happy for the resilience shown by the author. This was a heartbreaking, emotional read with lots of triggers *

“Deception takes commitment, vigilance, and a very good memory. To keep the truth buried, you must tend to it. For years and years, my job was to pile on sand - fistfuls, shovelfuls, bucketfuls, whatever the moment necessitated - in an effort to keep my mother's secret buried.”

A mother involves her daughter in her affair for years! Since she was 14! The mother turns my stomach and the consequences for her daughter are detrimental 😞

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“If there was one truth that I'd learned from all my reading, it was this: Happy endings do not apply to everyone. Someone is always left out of that final, jubilant scene. This time, that someone was me.”

I‘m only on chapter 3, but so much of this resonates with me… from being a 6 year old with divorced parents to being a divorcee … it‘s all heartbreaking 💔

On a happier note Happy Caturday!! We are reading with discovery shark week on 🦈

Starting this one for the weekend! Also enjoying a peachy peach 🍑 milkshake 😋

How are you spending your Friday?!

Making your teenage daughter complicit in your extramarital affair (for years!) seems a tad unhealthy to me. Great memoir about a complicated mother-daughter relationship.

#Unhealthy #MayMoms
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#currentlyreading with my friend 🖤

#buddyread #wildgame #adriennebrodeur #memoir #donut #donuts #buddyreads

I didn‘t know until I finished the book that it is a memoir. The author is called “ Renni” most of the book. Not until right near the end did I realize that was a nickname for Adrienne...the author! What a life. A mother shares the secrets of her affair with her 14 year old daughter and has her a part of the cover up.
Her mother Matabel was charming and as I‘ve learned in my life - charming people are dangerous. No spoilers, just read it.

I love a book about rich people problems, and this one certainly hit the Mark. Brodeur‘s exploration of her problematic (maybe toxic?) relationship with her mother is an engaging read, as long as you can cope with the excess of privilege that runs through it with little acknowledgement. This memoir is part a tale of how the other half live, part a tale of the tangled web of mother daughter relationships. It was a great summer read for me.

A mother inappropriately shares her affair with her husband‘s best friend with her young teenage daughter in this crazy memoir of rich people problems, mother daughter relationship, and the way that this secret impacts Rennie Brodeur‘s life even now. As a parent, I was horrified but it‘s also hard to look away. Full review at https://booknaround.blogspot.com/2020/12/review-wild-game-by-adrienne-brodeur.ht...

Read quickly, but not without discomfort. Trying to wrap my mind around why/how a mother pulls her young daughter into her pursuit of an affair. There is a lot of family history at play (& future at stake). I‘m left with many feelings, but not sure I can feel more than “so-so” about my experience with this wild game...

November #bookclub selection - keeping an open mind as it‘s not something I would‘ve picked up on my own. But I got to step inside my library for the first time in months to pick it up! It‘s the little things these days!

I thought this story was going to be about some under aged sex game. 😂 The mom wrote a recipe book titled Wild Game. Silly me!

I‘ve been reading so much! Well, compared to the last 5 1/2 months, so much! Wild Game, excellent so far, beautifully written and I‘ve been obsessed with books about family relationships.

A wild memoir about a teenage girl who helped facilitate her mother‘s affair, and what resulted from having these two families spend decades interlocked. Really puts other family dramatics in perspective.

Wow, just WOW! This is a memoir that reads like fiction.

I started reading this when I was in the middle of two other books and I completely forgot about them because I could not put this book down.

Brodeur is a great writer but thats pretty much the only good thing about this book. I dont see what the lure or point to this story was and why we should care about her individual story. Quick read.

I forgot my book at home *gasp* *how could I do that!?* Luckily Scribd has it! #scribdforthewin

Book 94 of 2020
#botm #botmbacklist

This story was a bit unsteady for me at first ... but gained strength as it went on, and found solid ground. A memoir , There‘s a sentence I hear on the radio a lot these days “ childhood lasts forever” ... This book about a Mother / Daughter‘s damaging relationship affected me very much.
I‘m left with this Kierkegaard quote from the book :
“ Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards”
#ParentandChildMemoir

My book arrived for #ParentAndChildMemoir I‘m a little unsure if I can be comfortable with the content .. but I was drawn to it.
And .... As a physical book , it feels perfect, beautiful dust jacket cover , lovely quality of paper , perfect size of print , feels lovely in the hands , ( you Littens are starting to get to me 😊.. & you know who you are!!! ) and come to think of it my father was a printer by trade ... ❤️ I have no hope

Imma have to DNF this one. No time, energy, or patience for this one right now... Nnnnnnnope!

#unpopularopinion

This book tugged at my heartstrings in a way I didn‘t think it would. It was towards the end that I found myself fighting back tears after reading how brutally ungrateful and hurtful Malabar was to her daughter. Maybe it hit differently with me because my mother has always been my rock, my best friend, and someone who I know I can always trust to love me unconditionally. I‘m beyond happy that I chose this for #Booked2020 (parent & child memoir)

I have never before appreciated how very boring my mother is. #thanksmom

At 14 years old Brodeur became her mother‘s confidante when her mother told her of her affair with her stepfather‘s best friend. This is one of those stories where truth is stranger than fiction and sometimes I had to remind myself that I was reading a memoir. It was an intimate look at the powerful effect that a parent can have on a child‘s life.

1. My husband and I with masks on, ready for work. I also bought the other two fabrics show to make more.
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3. Less crazy?
4. Green chiles, on everything.

Short read but excellent story of cause and effect and the mother daughter relationship

Rennie‘s mother treats her daughter as her best friend and confidante and holds this closeness over her head as she pulls her daughter into being an accomplice in her affair. As Rennie grows up and marries, she must confront the impact her mother has had on her life and her relationships. A very fast read and personal look at the trap of emotional control in a mother-daughter relationship.

I read this book in two days. I found it very relatable and it kind of felt like a self-help book, like the author was giving me advice about how to live my own life and I needed that then. It was a great read.

This memoir has high moments which when chugging are excellent and low moments which drag the book almost to a halt. The story begins at 14 when the author‘s mother reveals her husband‘s best friend kissed her. It goes on for years too. An ailing husband and the lover has an ailing wife. It continues into later years when the author begins to fall for the lover‘s son. The main narrative is right on, but the filler stuff was simply filler.

I read Adrienne Brodeur's Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me as part of the Bookish Ladies Club Diverse Books buddy read--the genre this month was memoir. Wow, is this an amazing example of the genre! It's a slim book, at only 237 pages, but it feels big in its content and reflection.⠀

Reni's story starts when she's 14 and her glamorous mother, Malabar, embarks on an affair with her husband's best friend, Ben. ⬇️

My new picks from MyTBR came in! Now to call my local indie so I can purchase them while practicing social distancing. They‘re doing curbside pickup.

This is my top nonfiction pick of the year so far. I‘ve read some very good books but this one is excellent! I can‘t believe this actually happened!! If you believe your relationship with your mother is complicated and fraught, you‘ve got nothing on this author! I don‘t want to spoil it but you don‘t want to miss this one! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Belletrist November Pick
Photo: Amazon

I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this book. There are no words that can describe how much this book impacted me. Adrienne's story is both heartbreaking yet inspiring, frustrating yet understanding. Not to mention the fact that most of the memoir takes place in Cape Cod, which makes me think of summer during this cold winter. Definitely make this a priority in your TBR. You will NOT regret it!

Joy had fallen from the night sky and landed in my mother‘s voice.

“To our wild game, Malabar.”
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If I take my lunch break at the office I end up doing work or browsing the Internet. So I‘ve been escaping to the closest food place to my office so I can get an iced tea and as much uninterrupted reading time as possible.

My last book of 2019 was Wild Game and my first book of 2020 is Little Women. #lastfirst @BookNAround

I read 20 books this month, finishing the last one with 20 minutes to spare. 🙌🏻

11 physical books
7 audiobooks
2 ebooks

I am 3 books shy of meeting my Goodreads goal of 200 books in 2019, but I have read more books than any other year so I‘m happy with that.

Happy New Years littens. 🥂

Obviously I‘m ringing in the New Year with a #bathandbook. 🛀 📖 🥂

Just finished this #ParentChildMemoir 📚Beautifully written, but a rather ugly story of selfish love and the consequences that arise from keeping secrets. A reminder of how messy & complicated family relationships can be.

Started last night and breezed through the first 120 pages to complete part one! Should finish later today or definitely by tomorrow😀#LastReadOfTheDecade 🤪

My final library haul of the decade is a small one. Wild Game will likely be my last read of the decade and I‘ll start the new one attempting to tackle a classic I should‘ve read a long time ago. My only reading/bookish goals for 2020 is read less super hyped up books and patronize and read more random books from my local indie.

Hi @BookNAround So I‘m saving tagged book as my last book for 2019 and my first book will be the Kate Atkinson, CASE HISTORIES in preparation for #BelowZer00s #BuddyRead , January 10-12 ( self indulgent plug 😜)
2019 was a great reading year and I‘m excited for all the books in 2020
Thanks for the #LastFirst #Giveaway and HAPPY NEW YEAR 🥳📚🥂

The subtitle says it all here. I really enjoyed this #memoir of the impact mothers can have on their daughters.

Another #TBRRead finished for #WinterGames ! I thought this was well written and a quick, engaging read, but with all of the hype surrounding this book, it didn‘t quite meet my expectations. Maybe it‘s just because I‘ve read so many other really great memoirs this year.

#TeamFozziwig

Relaxing bath 🛁 to prepare to go back to work after many days away. I love a break, but it's always nice to get back to work. I guess it helps that I am truly doing what I love as a librarian 📚♥️
I've been really looking forward to this memoir. Set in New England, I've already googled the first place I was unfamiliar with, Nauset Harbour. Looks beautiful. #bookandbath

Memoir 11 for Nonfiction November and this is a captivating read! I had to keep reminding myself it was a true story, about the author's mother who embarks on an affair with her husband's best friend but drags her daughter into it. It's also about mothers and daughters, waspy Cape Cod culture, and finding your own path. If you go to the beach anytime soon, this is the book to take with you!

Goodness that mother was a disaster. It was a quick read that kept me engaged.
#nfnov @Clwojick @rsteve388