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Thanks for all the birthday wishes! I am celebrating with a fancy mocktails at a really cool lounge complete with books to read! ❤️🥳📚🥂

This memoir was enjoyable but not a must-recommend read for me. The author was likeable and genuine, and she did a great job of describing life in a blended family and grief over lost loved ones.

I hadn‘t heard of Amy before this, but the title intrigued me, and I love memoirs, so I grabbed it. It ended up being enjoyable and honest and interesting. Her struggles with love and grief and parenting were not sugar-coated, but they were hopeful.

Just getting started on this looking forward to it .. it was a recommendation on Just the right book podcast 😊😊📚📚

About being with her mother near the end of life: "To abide means to stand with someone, to suffer alongside someone. But it also means to live somewhere, and for me, abiding meant to live in that tender and tenuous place of knowing but not knowing. Knowing what would happen but not how it would happen. Knowing it would all end, but not what that ending would be like or how it would feel."

Cute story.

(A view slightly to the right of my last post.) I've never read her column and she's never stood out to me on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, but she had me with the cover of her book. She covers a lot of territory - her husband's infidelity, being a single mother for years, falling in love later in life, caring for a dying parent, and the grief associated with the death of a loved one. She is witty and charming and honest. I'm happy to have met her.

It's hot and sunny today. Not complaining but we're not used to this heat in Vermont. Found a spot behind my apartment, under the trees with the cool stone under my feet. This book is a great Saturday afternoon read.

How could I not pick this book up from the shelf at the library. Strangers tell me things too! Just realized it's written by the "Ask Amy" columnist. So far, so much more captivating than my last book. ?

This is lighter than the Holocaust memoir I just finished. I read Dickinson's earlier book The Mighty Queens of Freeville and liked it. This is like a visit with an old friend.

The little "Shhhh" sign is a new addition to my reading nook. Think it will work?

Yep, getting in some reading while waiting for car maintenance. This is an easy read in many respects so it works for listening while Christmas music is blaring!