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I really wanted to love this book, because I watched Melissa Gilbert as Laura growing up. For 276 pages it took me three days to finish this book. I have almost DNF the book a couple of times cause I was getting bored with it. It had some great parts in it. But some of it was annoying to me. I rated this book a 3 out of 5 stars.

I really enjoyed this. I had no idea she was married to Timothy Busfield 😱 I was almost not ready to listen to their early pandemic struggles ( the same as all of us ) since it‘s still here but I guess it shows we have made progress from those early days

Section 5 is a big one and I‘m almost done this audio book ( MG makes me so hungry ) weather is all over the place today and after grey skies and rain, the sun is out so it‘s time to go outside

I read Gilbert‘s first memoir as an ebook and listened to the second. All in two weeks. Full disclosure, we‘re the same age. So I loved her pop culture references. Yes, her privilege is vast, but she also tries to do good in the world. And she‘s dealt with addiction, chronic pain, and some really shitty husbands too. So it‘s not all sunshine and Half Pint.

My full and combined review is at https://www.TheBibliophage.com

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This Pandemic Lockdown memoir was very reminiscent of those family update letters that people send in Christmas cards. A lot of mundane minutiae that had my eyes rolling 🙄. This is how the very privileged spent lockdown if you‘re interested. I was a bit jealous, and wished I could have stayed home too.

I think a much more interesting book would be compilation of Pandemic lockdown stories from people of all walks of life. 2/5 😷s

This feel-good pandemic memoir didn‘t quite do it for me.

Melissa and her husband bought a fixer upper in upstate New York before the pandemic hit. This is the story of her and hubby‘s life going back to the farm and being (mostly 🤷🏻‍♀️) Covid safe. Interesting that she and Jennifer Grey had the same neurosurgeon. She has some Half Pint encounters with animals, which were cute, but definitely a #BorrowNotBuy imo.