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Whisper Network: A Novel | Chandler Baker

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#BOTMBIDDYREAD #11

All the varying opinions of people in the deposition ... why don‘t people believe woman?

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janeycanuck Because people suck. They don‘t want to believe that they‘ve worked alongside someone for so many years and ignored warning signs or could have somehow encouraged the behaviour, etc. By not believing women, they get to believe everything around them is just fine. 4y

JaclynW @janeycanuck Yes, putting on the blinders! If you don't see it, it doesn't exist. 🙈🙉🙊 4y

JaclynW I answered this in a previous question. I really think it stems from culture and traditions. People really do believe women are "less than." They get treated that way in so many cases. They couldn't possibly be capable of telling someone about something they experienced accurately. ?? Also, some people are ignorant of what happens psychologically in a traumatic event and how that can mess with things...so they attribute that to women not ⬇️ 4y

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JaclynW Being capable again. It is a vicious cycle. So aggravating. 4y

mollyrotondo And the people in the deposition have that attitude of if he was a good worker and made the company a lot of money then he‘s a good guy and we aren‘t going to say anything bad about a guy who helped make us a lot of money. Women are expendable 4y

Librarybelle Yes, @JaclynW ! 4y

JaclynW @mollyrotondo Money, money, money! 🤑🤑🤑🤑 4y

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The Chelsea Girls | Fiona Davis

Join us in February for our buddy read on The Chelsea Girls!! 💗💗💗

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AmyG Yay!!! All set. 4y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @AmyG woo hoo!!!! 💗💗 4y

CoffeeNBooks I'm really looking forward to reading this one! 4y

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November Road: A Novel | Lou Berney

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#BOTMBIDDYREAD #10 FYI:
In its 1978 investigation Jack Ruby's murder of Lee Harvey Oswald as a primary reason to suspect organized crime as possibly having involvement in the assassination, noted the presence of credible associations relating Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby to figures having a relationship with Marcello's crime family. Marcello had the motive, means and opportunity to have JFK assassinated. Thoughts??

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Sargar114 I‘ll admit I don‘t know much about the mob theories, but part of me thinks it‘s so complicated and I tend to go with Occam‘s razor and the more simple solution being the more likely. 4y

Mitch I know nothing - but want to know more! Love when books send you down a rabbit hole and as a result of reading one book you add at least 5 more to your TBR. 4y

TheBookHippie @Mitch so far I‘ve added 3 and I‘ve only read 8 chapters 😳 4y

Mitch @TheBookHippie 😂 🙌 😂 4y

Librarybelle It's a plausible theory, I suppose. So many theories about the assassination! 4y

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The Clockmaker's Daughter: A Novel | Kate Morton

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#BOTMBIDDYREAD Final Thoughts: I wish the author either put all fake or all real history. Combining the two and making her fiction so close to fact is making me loathe reading this. It‘s frustrating.

However I am anxious to see how it ends.

Did we miss anything ???

Anything you caught that isn‘t mentioned here????

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janeycanuck There‘s no way we haven‘t missed something. She‘s burying tiny details all over the place - it‘s too much!! Also, the father had freakin‘ better come back into play otherwise, I‘m gonna be pissed off about another book where the title downplays the importance of the daughter and overplays the important of a dude. 5y

TheBookHippie @janeycanuck I am so afraid this is the identifier of the ghost and her identity: it makes me nauseated. 5y

janeycanuck Why does she have to be defined in relation to her father?! I get that everything kicks off when he leaves her and goes to America without her but why not reference any of the number of interesting things about HER?! Like her thieving ability? Drives me nuts when females are relegated to this kind of status. And the author is a woman! 5y

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TheBookHippie @janeycanuck seriously it could be THE MUSE -THE HOUSE-BIRDIE -LILY anything but a MANS PROPERTY ...🤢 5y

janeycanuck @TheBookHippie yes! Why is the only interesting characteristic about her who her father is? AND HE‘S NOT EVEN IN THE STORY!‘ 5y

AmyG Ha! I was hoping the father would come back into play at some point. I am afraid all the loose ends may not be tied up. And I am enjoying this book. I got bogged down in the first half of part 2...but it picked up for me. (edited) 5y

janeycanuck @AmyG there are a LOT of threads to tie up in not very many pages - I‘m assuming the father stuff won‘t be able to get resolved. 5y

Hooked_on_books @janeycanuck TOTALLY!!! Where is the clockmaker of the title?!? Why does he get greater importance than the main character! Maddening. 5y

Sargar114 I absolutely agree, this title has been misleading and made it seem as though he or even his profession would play more of a role. I suppose the whole time being relative versus the importance of location...but if the main part of the story is the house or Birdie‘s relation to it...why not have a better title. 5y

Sargar114 Just starting the next section...The Summer of Birchwood Manor May have been a better overall title of the book, haha 5y

CoffeeNBooks I'm definitely not sure why the book is titled The Clockmaker's Daughter, since there isn't anything about that in the story, but I'm hoping it will make sense in the last section. I'm really enjoying this book, though, despite all of the jumping around with the different characters. 5y

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Clockmaker's Daughter | Kate Morton

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#BOTMBIDDYREAD #6 Love...the stones of the house, the birds that call as they flew overhead and in its glow she glimpsed momentarily what religious people must surely feel at church: sense of being bathed in the light of certainty that comes with being known from the inside out, from belonging somewhere and to someone. It was simple. It was luminous and beautiful and true.”
What‘s in the house???? Also this entire quote..stunningly beautiful.

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janeycanuck Ugh, I have no idea what Edward‘s obsession with this house is. There‘s something clearly compelling about it, even before Birdie‘s death. 5y

AmyG Perhaps from an artist‘s eye...there is something special about this house. 5y

TheBookHippie @AmyG I think it‘s that and a feeling. I liken it to how I feel standing under the L in the middle of Chicago or walking in California on the beach smelling the salt air...how people feel about nature... peace zen safe 5y

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BookwormAHN I think some people and some places bond. 5y

Hooked_on_books There must be something compelling about the house, but the problem is that the author never establishes that for the reader at the beginning. So it makes it less believable that all these characters are drawn to it. Poor foundation leads to shaky middle. 5y

kspenmoll I have to agree; her writing is Beautiful (edited) 5y

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