pickA contemplative look at the nature of memory and how the experiences of our youth can stick with us in unexpected ways. It's also about the challenges of family and navigating both their expectations of us and how these are colored by their own experiences/biases/traumas, which reminds me of so many other books of the recent past. I like it quite a bit, but I'm not sure I love it. #BookerPrize2025 Longlist
pickThis book you guys, its So Good, it made me cry and laugh and root for the truth, however heartbreaking, to be known. Based enough in truth I could feel it in my bones but told through fictional eyes. Beautiful and heartwrenching, I truly couldnt put it down.
Current audiobook…Another story I am giving a second chance and the audiobook is really helping.
pickThe final book in the Tending Roses series. This novel tells of a young adult Dell trying to find her roots and birth father. Adopted at 13 by a very loving family, Dell always felt a pull to her past. Indigenous appearance and strong emotions bring interesting results. 4.5/5⭐️
pickThank you @BennettBookworm this wa on this years #aulangsyne list and I just got round to reading. What an absolute joy of a book this was. I loved India and her family and I loved reading a different kind of story about adoption by one who knows. Loved it!!
I read this solely for @Faranae's #URC and it was a pleasant surprise! I loved reading about women pilots in WW2. (My late mother-in-law took flying lessons back then but her instructor made a pass at her and she quit. 😡 She would have enjoyed this.)
The modern day part of the story was a bit goofy, but satisfying. Sookie is a middle-aged Southern housewife who's long been under the thumb of her domineering, narcissistic mother. cont.
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