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My Year of Living Vulnerably
My Year of Living Vulnerably | Rick Morton
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This is a book about love. In early 2019, Rick Morton, author of acclaimed, bestselling memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt, was diagnosed with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - which, as he says, is just a fancy way of saying that one of the people who should have loved him the most during childhood didn't. So, over the course of twelve months, he went on a journey to rediscover love. To get better. Not cured, not fixed. Just, better. This is a book about his journey to betterness, his year of living vulnerably. It's a book about love. What love is, how we see it, what forms it takes, how we practice it in our lives, what it means to us, and how we really, really can't live without it, even if, like Rick for many years, we think we can. As he says: 'People think they want cars, and they will, to get to jobs and appointments in cities and regions where public transport has failed them. But what gets them into those cars, out of the house, out of bed for God's sake, is love.' Praise for A Hundred Years of Dirt 'Morton is fresh ... He's brilliant.' Helen Elliott, The Monthly 'Dark and provocative ... It's one of the saddest books I have read in a while, and one of the most honest .... I think this book should be read by every Australian.' Stephen Romei, The Australian 'Morton is a crack storyteller and his words and stories are infused with genuine compassion.' Christos Tsiolkas
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Jeg
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Mehso-so

Thanks for this @MrsMalaprop . I realised I had seen and heard him on the radio and TV.
I didn‘t warm to him at all.
I “ got” some of what he was saying in the book but some of it seemed repetitive and he certainly lost me at the end. I hope he finds the love he is looking for.
#joysbooks2021.

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Rissreads
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Pickpick

I listened to this. It was a pick but only just. Lots of interesting stuff in here but it had no direction and I‘m confused as to why it was titled ‘My year of living vulnerably‘.

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MrsMalaprop
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Pickpick

In 2019 Australian journalist Rick Morton was diagnosed with complex PTSD after struggling for years with anxiety & depression. In this book he writes about learning to be vulnerable.

The book is a bit of a hotch-potch. I enjoyed parts of it & found myself a little bored in others. He‘s a clever, self deprecating guy who writes well & he references a lot of great books, many I‘ve read & some that are on my #tbr like Grapes of Wrath. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Jeg Yes please. I‘d like to have a go at reading it. 3y
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