Welcome to Litsy!

Spoiled little rich girl can't handle her rich world without the numbing effects of alcohol and cocaine. Wealth is wasted on the wealthy. Why do mistresses feel the need to write exposes for their lover's wives and children to be humiliated before the world? Go to confession rather than writing a book. I harbor no sympathy for homewreckers, no matter how young and naive they are. If I'd read this first I never would have made it to Inheritance.

Another 5 star audiobook from Dani Shapiro. I wish I had started Dani‘s journey with her from the beginning instead of making my way backward, beginning with her latest memoir first. Regardless, her books “speak” to me as someone who was raised in an Orthodox Jewish home similar in customs/ traditions such as Dani experienced. This memoir deals with a tragic car accident & its aftermath. While Dani dealt with her misgivings completely 👇🏽

I‘m a Dani Shapiro fan girl and this audio was calling to me 💕

I loved this book so very much. It gave me everything I need as a reader. Her writing was superb, making me feel I was truly in situations with her, feeling all of her deep feelings. There were many life lessons, the major and most inspirational one being that we truly “can start all over again” and do what‘s best for ourselves. The emotional intensity of this story was cathartic in the best ways for me. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The story of my life these days...I want to stay home and finish this book, a memoir feeling like a novel, building up to a climax...

One of my favorite authors!!

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Slowly but surely making my way through #litsyreadingchallenge - and don't even ask me about my other challenges 😆

I'm looking for recs for the About Music/Theatre square. The one I had planned to read is no longer available from my library. Any good ones you want to tell me about? 🙂

#litsyreadingchallenge2017 #lrc2017

I've made very little progress on my #litsyreadingchallenge - I seriously need to step up my game. No more library books until I can cross off at least three squares!
(The stickler in me feels the need to point out that I used the same sticker twice not because it was the same book - but because I used book 1 of a series for one square and book 2 for another - all squares are different books 😆) sigh. #lrc2017 #litsyreadingchallenge2017

The first memoir, events after parents' terrible car crash eventually led to sobriety and moving away from a part of her life that was clearly unsafe/unhealthy. Haven't decided if I'll read Devotion, the next memoir.

I'm ploughing through this memoir and finding it both sad and totally powerful. The words quoted here are from an interview included at the back about advice to writers. Shapiro says, "Be true to yourself. Do the work that matters to you..." So important.