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@rachelsbrittain

A widowed scientist and her two daughters find the frozen body of a wholly mammoth.

Maternal ✨ Isolated ✨ Genetic

Has the plot of a Wes Anderson movie

Another bail.. I have a hard time concentrating on books (am very busy at work and a bit hyped about that #CampLitsy24 longlist) and this one just didn‘t make sense to me. Great writing, great scenes but they lacked connection I think and I had not really and idea what or whom I was reading about. Maybe I‘ll give it another try when I am a bit more relaxed.

#WomenPrize

A really nice meditation on loss, family, and the bittersweet nature of enduring beyond trauma. I couldn‘t help but rooting for Jane, Eve and Vera, who are all just women trying to be bigger than their gender, age, and circumstance.

I‘m not sure how I feel about this book, soft pick, so-so.

About a mother and daughter, and their relationship to each other and the people around them.

I think this need to sit with me before I know how I feel about. I‘m not sure the author is trying to tell, that we‘re more similar to our parents than we think? What we‘re a product out past?

#MotivationalMonday @Cupcake12

1. Busy week😳I confess, I was like @DebinHawaii and I was working in my taxes 🤦🏽‍♀️All done by now😃The rest of the week I feel like a medical appointment taxi driver, for my mother and other family members🤣Tomorrow, another day of medical appointments Drive
2. Coffee☕️ , tea 🫖 , cookies 🍪 , trail mix, pop corn 🍿
3. Tagged book
Thank you @TheSpineView 🥰♥️

Their mother, Terry, read books all day, even when she was well. She lay in bed in the morning, she came down and propped the book against the teapot, she moved to a deckchair in the garden with her feet akimbo, and one arm flung high. If you spoke to her while she was reading she would look at you from a lovely distance.

You can‘t tell Carmel you have a problem or she‘ll go out and beat someone up for you. My mother is the woman who goes over to the jetski-guy on the beach, when you are five years old, shouting, How dear you frighten my child with that stupid, horrible machine. She is the woman who phones the government when your Irish exam is too hard (no really), she is, bless her, a crusader and a fighter - if you get a grope from some old perv on the bus she

I loved this book- couldn‘t put it down. As a woman, I related to the main character. It also reminded me of some important life lessons- we all mess up but you have to learn to forgive yourself and keep going, it‘s not too late to make a change, and it‘s important to let people in. Cliques perhaps but truths nonetheless. Iykyk.

#UnpopularOpinion; but I really didn‘t get on with this book at all. It starts with Nell and her section is so chaotically stream of consciousness that I thought my audiobook was glitching. She also didn‘t seem to have a character arc but rather was an embodiment of “self-destructive young person.” That really made me struggle with the book as a whole, though there were some moments that broke through.