#Twins
#NewYearNewBooks
I love this author ✍️
💔😭
#Twins
#NewYearNewBooks
I love this author ✍️
💔😭
I first read the tagged book more than 25 years ago. Wally Lamb's words seem even more relevant today. Powerful book about #Twins and so much more. I love that all his book titles are song lyrics. #NewYearNewBook @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#TemptingTitles
Day 20. With 5+ words
#With5+Words
This book went rocketing to my favorites shelf when I first read it a few years back. This story is powerful and I found it hard to put down.
Also from Wally Lamb in I Know This Much ls True:
But what are our stories if not the #mirrors we hold up to our fears?
#InQuotes
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
An absolutely fascinating and well told journey of self discovery. This book was definitely dated, and there were things about Dominick that were hard to forgive, but they added to the characters complexity. I looked forward to picking up this book everyday and, though really it felt like a reading a big therapy session, I would definitely read more by this author.
Such a great book published in the #1990s 💔📚
#ArtfulAugust
Three cheers on crossing the finish line, Tina! This is one of my all-time favorite books. Hope you loved it as well! :)
#ChunksterChallenge2022
@BookNerd9906
A little late posting #bigjunereadathon stats because of the busy holiday weekend. 9/10 books read including the tagged for the #chunksterchallenge2022. So many good books, and definitely the push I needed to catch up on my #tbr. @Clwojick @Amiable
I don‘t know why it took me so long to pick this book up, maybe the size? But I‘m absolutely loving it so far. Thanks for the recommendation @Alfoster @Amiable and I think this qualifies for the #chunksterchallenge2022
Halfway through, and it‘s a great book but I HATE Dominick. He‘s an awful person. He‘s a coward who always kowtows to social pressure, whether it leaves him a racist or a bully. The way he raped Dessa and the book just went on as if it was just a rough patch for them??? I don‘t think I‘ve ever read a book where I hated the main character and still loved the book, so props to the author on that, but damn. And I have yet to see anyone mention this?
I finally finished!! Just about a pick for me. Too much superfluous information and odd story lines popping up all over the place.
A satisfactory ending but sometimes felt like a slog to get there.
What a lot these characters, especially Dominick, had to put up with!
Wow! There was a lot to unravel n this 900 page novel. Layers upon layers, going back several generations. Sins, forgiveness, secrets, regrets. A story of identical twins in physical appearances but distinctively different personalities, Nature or Nurture? Does being a twin make you accountable for your other half? Obligated? Responsible? Do you carry parts of each other unknowingly? Lots of heartache but ultimately some redemption too.
Getting a pedicure because #SelfCare and wrapping up my final 100 pages of this 900 page saga. Identical twins, one schizophrenic the other compensating for all the injustices real or imagined. Really tragic at times but some lighter moments too, because isn‘t that life?!?? It‘s rough but I‘m deeply invested. Hope you find time to power through @TrishB
Not much reading time- but I‘ve started. Enjoying so far.
I‘m really loving this book. Lamb writes so viscerally and beautifully. I‘m taken right back to the late 1970‘s - when Thursday‘s meant the new issue of TV Guide would be waiting in the mailbox. And that euphoria of discovering what lay ahead in the upcoming week. I would read the TV Guide cover to cover, like it was a text book. Life was full of wonder & anticipation pre Internet. Ohhh, and the JOY of those Fall Preview Issues🥰
#Illness
#ConflictedWorlds
Such a powerful book about twins, one with paranoid schizophrenia… have tissues ready!
Wow. That was a very long book. The author managed to catch and hook me but ultimately left me unmoved. A big meh!
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Wally Lamb is one of my Top 10 favorite authors; I've read most of his books. I especially adore "She's Come Undone" (I've read it twice and won't part with my paperback copy!)
Are you a Wally Lamb fan? Favorite book of his? Currently reading one of his books? Please share your thoughts!!
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#alwaysreading #instabook #biblio_bliss_
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2
I almost quit reading this because the first half was going too slow for me. Glad I didn‘t.
The story is about two twin brothers, Dominick and Thomas Birdsey, and the complexity of their relationship as well as the relationships between them and their mother and step-father. Betrayal, devastation, alienation, and forgiveness are major themes in this book and Wally Lamb does a great job tying everything together.
These are #3books #thatgavemeabookhangover 😭😭😭
All are must reads!!!!
This is the kind of book where, as you're reading, you're thinking, "How is it possible for someone to actually DO this?" Almost like you just hold the book up over your head, and the words pour in, effortless. This intense novel was easy to slip into and hard to put down. An engrossing page-turner in every respect...just every cliche is true for this one. I don't want to say too much of what it's about because everything is a spoiler. Amazing.
Finished this masterpiece this slow Sunday morning and all I can say is “wow”. This book was hard to read at times, but was so worth it. It‘s become one of my favorites, if not *the* favorite.
Spent a few hours playing with and sorting my books into authors instead of their loosely organized "classics" and "modern" categories they were in before.
Although this dark brown shelf contains books on the move, like, TBR 2020, TBR sometime in the future, 'Already Read' books and books I'm lending out.
My large collection of bookmarks are in the jar at the bottom and the pink felt scottie dog is what my mum made me when I was a baby.
Just finished the HBO adaptation of one of my favorite books, I thought it did the book justice. The book is always better but Mark Ruffalo played the tragic and agonizing character of Dominic so well.
Such a beautiful story! I decided to read this after starting the HBO series. So glad I did! 💜💜💜
“... holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.”
Wow, this book was really something. A literal epic tale of a man‘s life. Wally Lamb did such a good job telling an entire life story from baby to late 40‘s without losing track of a main plot. It‘s so impressive how he can do that! This book was both relieving and devastating. I was so invested in Dominick‘s well-being. There were some pretty shocking revelations (others not so much),
🦎 The tagged book absolutely wrecked me in the best way. It‘s one of the few books my Mom, sister, and I all love.
🦎 Kazuo Ishiguro has a special place in my heart.
🦎 IT, the miniseries. I love that campy shit. I like the new one too.
🦎 Iggy Azalea is a guilty pleasure 🤷🏻♀️
🦎 If You Could Only See by Tonic. Still a phenomenal song.
(I‘m way late! Sorry y‘all!) #ManicMonday #LetterI
Current situation. Happy Memorial Day everyone and stay safe!
1. As a tiny kid with my best grandma, reading in matching twin beds at her house❤️ she read to me, then I read on my own and then we passed books back and forth until, she was unable to see in her 80‘s.
2. Tagged one of my very favorite, but also Peace Like a River by Leif Enger and Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger. And Shotgun Lovesongs by Nikolas Butler. I‘m drawn to stories about boys. Thx @JenReadsAlot
1. As long as I can remember! Bookstore trips for good grades on the report card! 😊
2. Tagged book is an all time favorite
@Kshakal thanks for the tag @peaknit @KLyn1
#two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
HBO: We‘re releasing a limited series based on Wally Lamb‘s book, I Know This Much is True.
Me: I own this book, I must read it before I watch the series!
Wally Lamb: Ya gonna be here a while!
🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤗
Ohmgosh, this book (highly recommended by #momreviews) is an HBO series! With Mark Ruffalo. And $&/!, I don‘t have HBO.
I will post about the tagged book every chance I get! And I‘m counting the days until the HBO adaptation! But, these are all books #aboutsiblings I‘ve read and enjoyed.
#bibliomaynia
#Aboutmentalillness
#MagnificentMarch
I read this book over 10 years ago and still think about it 💔
Coming to HBO April 17th
https://youtu.be/BO_4DGnmMKk
This one is a #chunkster but so worth it. Twin brothers, one with schizophrenia, and the other “normal” twin is left to deal with his brother‘s illness, while also examining his own life. Can‘t wait for the HBO limited series next month!
#aboutamentalillness #magnificentmarch
I love Wally Lamb! This looks promising.
https://www.joblo.com/movie-news/mark-ruffalo-leads-an-emotional-teaser-trailer-...
Reading for a book club meeting in March. Enjoying it so far. 📚👬Finished the book (897 pages!) just in time for book club tomorrow. We are going to use the Zoom app for our meeting.
Continuing my TBR project:
This is one the oldest selection on my TBR list - Originally added January 20, 2017.
Wow! I flew through this book; just couldn‘t put it down. I need to check out the rest of his catalog.
I‘m usually put off my books with #over500pages, so if I choose to read one, it‘s because I really, really want to. I‘m glad I read this one...it‘s fantastic and I highly recommend. I cannot wait for the HBO series!
#gratefulreads
I don‘t remember too much about this except that it was about twin brothers where one them suffered from schizophrenia and the other brother found himself conflicted about having to be his brother‘s caretaker. It was a compelling story. An Oprah pick too, so have your tissues ready!
#Heaintheavyhesmybrother. #RedroseSeptember