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The Emotional Life of the Toddler | Alicia F. Lieberman
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Working on becoming a better #parent #nonfiction #toddlers

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CarolynM
Him & Me | Jack Whitehall, Michael Whitehall
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Pickpick

I'm rating this audiobook a pick because I like Jack Whitehall and it gave me a few laughs. Father and son read alternate chapters. Their frequent interruptions of one another and constant bickering was entertaining at first, but became tiresome pretty quickly, as did Whitehall Snr's high Tory attitude but I liked his story about a date with Carol Thatcher. Anyway, it was perfect for the #Booked2020 #Parent&ChildMemoir prompt.

Cinfhen Wonderful 🎉🎉🎉 it‘s fun to be reminded of the “earlier” prompts which for you are time appropriate... you know what I mean xxxx 4y
CarolynM Oops, just remembered this is also my December #Bookspin @TheAromaofBooks 4y
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 4y
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Singout
Pickpick

Very interesting memoir of a woman who returns to Korea as an adult, having been adopted by white Canadians as an infant, to go through the challenging process of finding and then building a relationship with her birth family. She finds a complex family, including parents who had been estranged by her birth, with multiple generations and a variety of values and experiences.
My #Booked2020 pick for #parent/childmemoir.

Cinfhen This sounds good!!! Don‘t forget you have until Friday to post a quarterly wrap up on all the prompts you read this quarter for #Booked2020 4y
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squirrelbrain
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This was a really interesting read and I certainly learnt a lot about The Netherlands during WWII.

I did feel that there was more fact than emotion in the book and that, therefore, I didn‘t learn as much about Audrey, and in particular her relationship with her mother, as I would have liked. (Her mother was a Nazi supporter for quite a while into the war)

#readingeurope2020 #netherlands
#booked2020 #parent&childmemoir

Cinfhen Agreed, this was less memoir more history lesson but it was still fascinating. The beginning was especially interesting/ I used this for #ReadingEurope2020 #Netherlands It was written by her son, right??!!? 4y
squirrelbrain I don‘t think it was written by her son @Cinfhen , but I think he‘s one of the only biographers to have had a lot of access to her son..... I can‘t believe what a nightmare her mother was - it seemed to me that she only changed her views because it directly affected her family (when her son had to go into hiding)... 4y
Cinfhen Oh right, the son Luca writes the forward...Audrey‘s mom was horrid. So selfish and such a schemer 4y
Librarybelle This is on my to read list! 4y
bibliobliss Can't wait to get back into it! I have it on hold with Libby. Glad you liked it ;-) 4y
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Sresendez12
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Another wonderful book to listen to. I really had no idea what all Julie Andrews has done and been through. I hope she writes another because I know there is still more to learn if she is willing to share. She wrote this one with her daughter so I‘m using for #parent&childmemoir for #booked2020

Cinfhen Sounds wonderful ❤️ 5y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Perfect pick! ♥️📚👊🏻 5y
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TrishB
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It‘s a tough read and sometimes you just don‘t like the author and sometimes you‘ll just judge her but sometimes you will feel sympathy (or empathy) and wish her the best and be in despair that we have politics that let‘s this happen.
Much to talk about. But this isn‘t a story about the working class as a class, it‘s not universal. It‘s about another class that has slipped beyond any societal norms, seemingly without anyone 👇🏻

TrishB caring. There are a lot of tough things to think about in here. But I do think the authors ‘family‘ life had a massive impact on her future life chances. I would like to spend an hour or so with the author to discuss in depth. 5y
squirrelbrain Great, perceptive review. I look forward to reading it! 5y
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TrishB @squirrelbrain definitely need some fluff now. 5y
squirrelbrain Yes, I think I might be looking for fluff tomorrow too... just finished Othello and still plodding through Wolf Hall and I think I‘m feeling a little bit ‘reading-slumpy‘ 😬 5y
TrishB @squirrelbrain I can see why you would! Although I only ever get this bad when it‘s NF- I cant get it out of my head when it‘s real people! 5y
Cinfhen You broke your golden rule/ SAD memoirs!!!! Sounds like a tough read but an important one. For some reason, I‘m drawn to these type of stories, especially NF. Go read one of your twisted murder stories...those seem to cheer you up 😉😂😘 5y
BarbaraBB Excellent review 💔 5y
rockpools Excellent, thoughtful review! I‘ve stalled on this for a little while... 5y
Cathythoughts As @BarbaraBB says, excellent review ❤️👍🏻 5y
Balibee146 Such a great review @TrishB so much to think about around individual life experience within a society that increasingly normalises the huge differences between peoples access to just the basics of living, let alone anything else. 5y
TrishB @Cinfhen I know and now I‘m traumatised!! 5y
batsy Wonderful review! 💜 Certainly a topic that would probably require a conversation across many books. 5y
TrishB @RachelO totally understand! 5y
TrishB @Balibee146 so true. She only went into politics with a small p really. But the whole thing just echoes the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. 5y
TrishB @batsy thank you ❤️and yes definitely. And I‘m sure people‘s own life experiences will colour their reading as it does for all of us. 5y
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squirrelbrain
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This isn‘t a ‘typical‘ childhood - Tania comes from an aristocratic family, was brought up by a nanny and hardly saw her mother. The book partly covers her childhood between the 2 World Wars but also looks at her mother‘s life too. Moura was what we would perhaps call a ‘socialite‘, and had affairs with Maxim Gorky and HG Wells.

#readingeurope2020 #estonia
#booked2020 #parent&childmemoir
#mandmchallenge2020 #history

Librarybelle This sounds like something I would like to read! 5y
squirrelbrain @Librarybelle @Chrissyreadit - it started off a bit slow and clunky so I really wasn‘t sure about it. But it soon picked up and was really very engrossing. 5y
Chrissyreadit @squirrelbrain good to know! 5y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Sounds really interesting! 5y
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