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#ARichLife Tradition. It is a country song 🎵 about how artists in this genre follow a family tradition of addiction. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Love the great range of disabilities and body types shown here. Although the main focus is on physical limitations, a lot of the advice is applicable to other kinds of disabilities too.

#TransRightsReadathon (author is genderqueer)

"Does a story's ending excuse its beginning?"

If it's wrong for a 17 year old girl to sleep with her 47 year old art teacher, does it make it any better that they marry and stay married for decades until he dies??

This memoir was thought-provoking and well done.

A thin memoir of a huge age-gap (and power gap!) relationship between Ciment and her decades-older former professor. It was my assumption that this book would examine the inappropriate nature of their union. And, while she does acknowledge the difference in age and position, Ciment does not assign blame to her husband. This was melancholic and I it didnt live up the the hype, for me.

At 17 Jill seduced her 47 year old art teacher or did she?As Jill tries to be honest after a lifetime of perhaps lying to herself I can‘t get over the fact that Arnold at the time was married&Jill was 17 which is yes! young but she wasn‘t a child either.Why did she marry him?Although I understand why it‘s important 2 her to re-examine what happened,I don‘t understand why after staying married to him until his death at 93 she now writes this?

This memoir read like a novel and I loved it so much. (Also, I was drawn to the “older man, younger woman” chisme, tbh 😅).

I now need to add Ciment‘s backlist to my TBR.

I‘m trying to wrap up books that I‘m already in the middle of (too many! 😅), but this library hold came in 2 days ago and I can‘t wait any longer 🤣

#AboutABook #Published2023

I think I‘m done with college students entering inappropriate relationships for a while 😵‍💫.

My Last Innocent Year: ⭐️⭐️⭐️,75/5
Sirens & Muses: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

A group of boys keeps a scorecard about who touches girls the most. Nobody believes her or really cares. She doesn't want to bother her mom with her issues, so she keeps her thoughts inside. She learns karate, and that becomes her outlet. Illuminates issues of problems in today's world that will probably never go away. The characters are convincing and credible. The story can help talk about things that are hard to talk about.