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Unpredictable, uncomfortable, poetic, and completely compelling. I loved this thorny series. Not for every reader, but I am delighted I read these 3 books. 4.5 🌟

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For my friends on Litsy who like a reminder when I post a new video about my reading, here‘s a link: Friday Reads 03/14: 10 books from 9 countries

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Read this 4 book club! I really liked it! It‘s a family saga, but not a long, drawn-out one. It‘s very accessible. A lot of characters to get used to at 1st but it gets easier. I‘ll be eager to hear what ppl thought of Lila & her way of parenting. It has a satisfying end. Some heavy topics at times but very well done! 4 stars.

Sue, thank you so very much for sending this lovely book. I look forward to reading it. If you enjoyed it chances are I will, too. And this card is beautiful-I put it up on my shelf. 😘 my friend.

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Rachel Cusk wrote this memoir (almost a series of essays) about becoming a mother in 2001. Cusk talks about motherhood in both an intellectual way & a personal way - theres a little humor but theres a lot of distress in here. For me it is the first book ive read that captured some of the trauma & undoing of self that i personally felt going full speed from a difficult birth into a severe lack of sleep & feelings ⬇️

Not that it will happen, but every soon-to-be father should be required to read sections of this book. A woman explains what her life has become once she has become a mother. Her husband is busy at work and he abdicates all responsibility for the child. The exhaustion, anger, disappointment, loneliness, desperate love and raging anger toward a young child, all of it was perfectly described.

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