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This book was beautifully written and I love Joys raw and honesty throughout. You can feel her struggles and understand how she ended up in a cult without even realizing it.. I also love that she narrated her own book 🥹❤️

This is so heartbreaking. The intersections of race and orientation do so much to harm Broome and everyone like him. I just wanted to give him the love he wanted so many times in this book. The racism has to go. The homophobia has to go. Children, and all people, should be allowed to be themselves and loved for who they are.
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"It's like being on a road, it doesn't matter if it's the yellow brick road, or pavement, or gravel. It's still a road and where it takes you is where you're going. And I think the journey is how you use that road- if you stay on it and the path that it's leading you down, or you venture off and do something else and create a path of your own."

The book‘s title within the book. #memoir

There are only a few stories of his acting career here. This is a book of his early years growing up in Ireland, his time struggling with alcohol, and his horrible self-esteem. It is very well written and evokes a sensory experience of an Ireland of old. #TenBeforetheEnd

#NonfictionNovember is here!
#WeeklyForecast

I am halfway into the tagged would like to finish tomorrow.
I am planning on reading one chapter from Far From The Tree a day, there are 12 chapters but I am looking realistically at a full 2 weeks I understand it is a dense one.

Supplementing with the brilliant Ta-Nehisi Coates and the inspiring Jacinda Ardern

The Sunday night “perusal pile”. 😆

Here‘s my list, playing for the first time now that I may have figured it out. Not sure if the number has been picked yet. #BookSpin

"I didn't get to eighty years old being sweet and gentle. I'm no flower. Fuck that. I'm a cactus - get over it "