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The Family Under the Bridge | Natalie Savage Carlson

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Marvelous book about a Paris hobo and 3 little red headed kids who help each other. Would be a good Hallmark movie but without the romance!

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Almost Home | Joan Bauer

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Sugar finds herself in foster care after her mom and her lose their home. While on the road, she adopts a little dog named Shush, who is going to be a helper dog.

I love that these books meant for kids do not shy away from tough topics that some children face.

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Doll8455 Good review!! 1w

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KCofKaysville

The Family Under the Bridge | Natalie Savage Carlson

I picked this up somewhere, maybe at a Free Little Library and it looks promising. Makes me think of Gigot, the old movie, set in France. I like stories where someone helps orphans. It's a really old kids book.

TheBookHippie Oh I love this one. I hope you enjoy it! 2w

KCofKaysville @TheBookHippie. Thanks. Does seem good

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Teresereading

Salt Path: A Memoir | Raynor Winn

I enjoyed both, but now l'm not sure what to think...
#walking
#falling
@eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Tamra Unsettling, for sure. 1mo

Seabreeze_Reader Is that Jason Isaacs on the front cover? If so, I totally didn't recognize him. 1mo

Eggs Love the leaf plate 🍽️ 🌿 1mo

Teresereading @Seabreeze_Reader I think that‘s him 1mo

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lil1inblue

The Salt Path | Raynor Winn

I've read a fair number of articles about this controversy, but this is the first one that addresses the ableism of it all. It's worth the read.

https://lithub.com/nature-is-not-going-to-cure-you-on-raynor-winns-fabricated-me...

shortsarahrose Thanks for sharing this article! I have not read The Salt Path or heard about the controversy, but I am always down to read a solid critique of ableist discourse. I might have to read some of Polly Atkin‘s own work now. 2mo

IriDas Thanks. I will enjoy this thoroughly. I‘ve been trying to tell people this when I was in academia and they would just throw supposed research that proves their point, while never questioning what sorts of people were included and excluded in the research. Now we‘ve got some sh*t head (RFK,jr) saying we need to send our autistic children to “camps” and “farms” to cure them. 2mo

lil1inblue @shortsarahrose You're most welcome! I added 2 of Polly Atkin's books to my TBR after reading the article. I really appreciated this perspective. 2mo

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lil1inblue @IriDas 🙌 🙌 🙌 2mo

ChaoticMissAdventures Thank you! I was reading an article about their lies that started with why they actually lost their house and I realized "Moth" was still making appearances and how unbelievable that would be. I had not realized until then how long ago they started pulling this scam. 2mo

squirrelbrain When the news first broke in the UK there were stories of people with the same condition that Moth supposedly had, who had been given hope by reading his story - so sad. 😞 2mo

Suet624 Great article. Thank you for sharing it with us. 2mo

Kitta @IriDas I work as a scientist and we spend years learning how to properly read and understand research papers - the content but also who is writing, who was studied, the conflicts of interest! It‘s so important and not something others are trained to do. I‘m not saying they shouldn‘t read the papers but they need to understand research in context. It frustrates me when I see people citing that awful Wakefield paper about vaccines & autism. 😡 2mo

Kitta The more I read about this book the more angry I get. 2mo

Deblovestoread Thanks for this. I was interested in the book until seeing the controversy. Now interested in supporting Polly Atkin instead. 💙 2mo

IriDas @Kitta university was where I realized that far too many of my profs, including a physicist with a PhD, didn‘t take that lesson seriously enough. 2mo

Kitta @IriDas 😢 that sucks. It‘s so necessary. 2mo

BookNAround I‘ve been trying to ignore this news because I have this book on my tbr shelves (I bought it when it first came out) and I hate to not read something I spent money on. Argh!!! 2mo

lil1inblue @squirrelbrain Ugh. That's so sad. 2mo

lil1inblue @Deblovestoread Same! 💓 2mo

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ChaoticMissAdventures

The Salt Path | Raynor Winn

An article I just found from last month.
I think this brings up an interesting topic.
Honestly in Nonfiction
How much do you expect to be truthful in a personal book

What could (should?) happen when it is revealed an author is being disingenuous?

I found this article led me to be disappointed in Winn. Talking to my partner last night, landed on I will read a book by a scammer, as long as I don't feel like they are scamming the reader (me).

ChaoticMissAdventures Article is free with an email address: https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-real-salt-path-how-the-couple-b... 2mo

Cuilin Yeah, this is so disappointing. My husband and I both read the book and we wanted to see the movie. Not sure we will now. 2mo

ChaoticMissAdventures @Cuilin disappointed, yes! The author of this article says "fact and fable are often jumbled up to some degree". I don't know about all that. I think I am in the camp of Winns deception is more evidence of her bad character and I don't like that. I like that the article related this to James Fry, he popped into my mind as soon as I heard she wasn't telling the "whole truth" 2mo

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squirrelbrain There are several more articles after this one, also in The Guardian / Observer, with other people alleging deceit or elaborations of the truth. 2mo

Kitta I remember someone else posting an article about this a little while ago! It reminded me in a way of the drama surrounding

A Million Little Pieces

2mo

ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain I definitely know I am late to this party. It brings up so many questions for me about expectations around nonfiction and what do I expect from them and myself. 2mo

ChaoticMissAdventures @Kitta yes! I was telling my partner about how it reminded me of Fry. And I don't like it. 2mo

Kitta @ChaoticMissAdventures yeah, I did enjoy reading Fry‘s memoir but was really disappointed that it wasn‘t entirely true. I haven‘t read the Salt Path and probably won‘t now. If they had said it was loosely based on the truth it would have been fine! But I‘m not happy they weren‘t honest about it. 2mo

squirrelbrain Oh, I wasn‘t meaning that Shawna, that you were late to the party. I was a little unsure after the first article (mainly why had they taken so long to come forward) but the further articles only added to it. 2mo

ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain definitely do not want to go off one article! I feel like I can never keep up with book news. And this is the sort of stuff that would affect my reading. Why now is a great question. I am annoyed they waited so long to come out with their story (not victim blaming, just they could have done this so much earlier) 2mo

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Blue Ruin: A novel | Hari Kunzru

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Jay is an artist; lives his life as one (many?) experience-immersed art project/s. When Covid hits, he is in NYC just barely surviving when he delivers groceries to a wealthy enclave — he comes face 2 face with his lover Alice from 20+ years past who had run off with his best friend. I liked it mostly for amazing sentences but the drug use was extremely off-putting to me. Lots of interesting thoughts on “what IS art?” 🖼️ Low pick #Aug2025 #ToF

BkClubCare Book71 #Pie #Hardcover 📷 #SurpriseLily #NakedLadyFlower 3mo

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BkClubCare

Blue Ruin: A novel | Hari Kunzru

“There was a pie and mash shop and a butcher.”

#piemention #litpie #pieandbooks #booksandpie #ILovePie #BlackPloutPie

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AllDebooks

The Salt Path | Raynor Winn

#NaturaLitsy

An interesting article on the future of the nature memoir following the allegations surrounding Raynor Winn.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/02/the-end-of-the-road-what-the-salt-...

Faranae Winn's claims *now* that she wasn't trying to claim their walks healed Moth - she did make that claim! Many times!

I remember reading her books for my blog and thinking that things seemed fishy, but I wasn't in a position to confirm details (while PRH was), and I try to be generous and assume good faith, so I chalked it all up to them being ignorant, naive, and terrible at risk assessment. I also thought they'd be dead in less mild terrain. 😂 3mo

AllDebooks @Faranae the whole story is so shocking, especially the embezzlement claims. 3mo

Faranae @AllDebooks The embezzlement claims don't shock me much (and I take them with a grain of salt, too), but a court case is something PRH should have been able to find fairly easily, so they really didn't do due diligence. The rest of us couldn't because those are pen names, but PRH has their wallet names. The medical diagnosis is the one I find the most galling. 3mo

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AllDebooks @Faranae the embezzlement claims ate tough because if true, she took advantage of a lot of innocent people. The health issues stated repeatedly in her book are outrageous as they gave people with similar conditions hope. 3mo

AllDebooks @Faranae you're right, PRH should have done more. This is such a staon Penguin when they should be celebrating 99 years of publishing. https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/so-what-did-the-publisher-actually-... 3mo

Kitta Interesting. I‘m reminded a bit of the scandal surrounding

A Million Little Pieces

3mo

AllDebooks @Kitta yes! 3mo

Faranae @Kitta And James Frey and his editor basically got away with it - he has a successful career, and she continued on at PRH more or less as if nothing had happened. I guess PRH hasn't learned any lessons, or just knows that it won't matter to the bottom line in the long run (well, there is that disclaimer that I suppose will protect them from legal liability). 3mo

Eggs I think the real story (embezzlement etc) would have been a more fascinating and authentic narrative 1mo

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BkClubCare

Blue Ruin: A novel | Hari Kunzru

The vividness of these radishes provoked me to take this picture, continuing my habit of posing my books with gardens, plants, flowers, produce. This is my last book for #ToF and it is already capturing my attention; page 10. This will be my 3rd by this author. I expect it to be interesting, philosophical, culturally relevant.

BkClubCare P.S. I dislike radishes 🫜 3mo

Tamra Oh, gorgeous! I love radishes. 3mo

HodgepodgeandMiscellany Omg—that picture has me salivating! I call radishes “nature‘s candy” — love them!!! 3mo

BkClubCare @Tamra - yes, my eye really appreciates the bright color. 3mo

BkClubCare @HodgepodgeandMiscellany - sure, sure. I let my husband eat any if I find in my 🥗 salad. 😉 3mo

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