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Small Fry
Small Fry | Lisa Brennan-Jobs
A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in her, ushering her into a new world of mansions, vacations, and private schools. His attention was thrilling, but he could also be cold, critical and unpredictable. When her relationship with her mother grew strained in high school, Lisa decided to move in with her father, hoping he'd become the parent she'd always wanted him to be. Small Fry is Lisa Brennan-Jobs's poignant story of a childhood spent between two imperfect but extraordinary homes. Scrappy, wise, and funny, young Lisa is an unforgettable guide through her parents' fascinating and disparate worlds. Part portrait of a complex family, part love letter to California in the seventies and eighties, Small Fry is an enthralling book by an insightful new literary voice.
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cwarnier
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Ladies, I am sorry I am failing this round. I just got my books back but still have 2 others to read.
@staci.reads @allureofbeauty @kellyann28
#lmpbc

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kellyann28
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Panpan

This ended up being a pan for me, but not the worst. I feel like all I really learned about this was how awful Steve Jobs was as a person. Thank you for a great round! And @staci.reads I enjoyed your notes you sent with each book! ❤️ #LMPBC @cwarnier @allureofbeauty

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staci.reads
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A memoir by Steve Jobs's oldest child, whom he denied paternity of for the first years of her life. It focuses almost exclusively on the dysfunctional relationships with her parents, so we don't get to see the various sides of the author as well as in most memoirs. It was compelling, though, and I read it in a day. It was my Sept. #LMPBC for #GroupC. Thanks for the pick @cwarnier!
@kellyann28 it will be on its way to you soon! @allureofbeauty

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allureofbeauty
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Pickpick

I enjoyed this book more than I originally thought I would.

It has been sent onward to @staci.reads
@cwarnier @kellyann28

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty 🌸 2y
kellyann28 Beautiful photo! ❤️ 2y
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cwarnier
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Panpan

I really wanted to like this one, but I just didn't. I felt like the story line jumped around so much that sometimes it was difficult to follow.
I expected life to be difficult for Lisa, but not to have a egotistical, narcissistic jerk of a father.

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cwarnier
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#lmpbc #jubilantJuly
I wish I had some ability to focus to read today. Hopefully later.

@kellyann28 I just got Paris Apt in the mail today. I can't wait to read it.
@staci.reads @allureofbeauty

@Shadowfat @mklong @magyklyXdelish
I will get on What Comes after the top 2 books, both of which I am halfway through.

allureofbeauty I just got Small Fry 🖤 2y
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cwarnier
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#JubliantJuly @Andrew65
I was so successful with the middle of June readathon, that I thought I would try July.
Small Fry is my #LMPBC round 14 July pick
Dyslexic Advantage is a personal read/ learning read
What Comes After- #LMPBC round 13 last book.

Andrew65 Great to have you with us again. 2y
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cwarnier
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#July
#Bookspin @thearomaofbooks
I can't believe it's almost July.

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! And I am not ready for 2022 to be half over already! 😳 2y
annahenke Such a great mix here! 2y
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cwarnier
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#LMPBC
I am excited to start a new round. Books that I probably wouldn't have picked up on my own, that is what I love about this.
@allureofBeauty @Staci.Reads @Kellyann28

For those who haven't sighed up check out @Suvata or sign up below
Details and sign up:
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suvata Good choices! 2y
kellyann28 Going to be a good round! 2y
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cwarnier
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4y
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mjtwo
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Mehso-so

24-29 October 2020 (audiobook)
This felt a bit voyeuristic. I realised that I didn‘t need to know so much about Jobs‘ treatment of his family or his peculiarities. He was not a great father, but he was not a monster. And maybe few geniuses make great parents. I may have enjoyed it more if the writer had narrated the book, I expect. Something about the narration was a little off for me.

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trueisa4letterword
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Pickpick

I had read the massive Steve Jobs bio when it came out, but this still surprised me. This is primarily about Brennan-Jobs's childhood spent failing to have relationships with two parents who were disasters. Beautifully written and engaging.

#memoir

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Hestapleton
Small Fry | Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Mehso-so

I don‘t know about this one. I saw parts of my own relationship with my dad in this, which is maybe why I feel so weird about it. The structure wasn‘t totally linear, so I felt a bit confused about what was happening. But I do think this is an important story, that people can have many sides: some brilliant and some cruel. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Tonescape
Small Fry | Lisa Brennan-Jobs
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I like hearing the stories surrounding a game changer.

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AileenRR
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Mehso-so

Maybe skip this one if you‘re in love with your Apple products and have difficulty separating the art from the artist. From his dtr‘s point of view, Steve Jobs sounds like a sociopathic jerk. I still got sucked into the narrative, though.

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nikirtehsuxlol
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The only Steve Jobs memoir or biography I‘d ever attempt to read. Lisa doesn‘t seem to hold information back, but still seems so respectful and loving towards her dad!, and I appreciate her not downplaying the role of money in their lives. Between Steve Jobs saying he had 3 kids in his company bio (Lisa was the fourth) and Lisa‘s stepmother saying, “We‘re cold people” .... and that‘s not even all of it. Yikes. 🥶

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Readaholics
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You will not like Steve Jobs after reading this memoir. His coldness, inappropriateness and massive white male ego is appalling. Being rich and successful does not excuse piss poor parenting and shoddy behavior. Ugh I can‘t believe Lisa survived this. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 well done! So honest and literally made me cry and feel for her in my gut.

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Readaholics
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Omg I want to punch Steve Jobs in the face. Lol. Just kidding....but his parenting style and narcissism was not ok. Lisa tells the story of her wacky childhood with honesty and raw emotion. It really makes you feel for her - so sensitive and insecure while growing up with this psycho. Always trying to please and fit in while dealing with dysfunctional adults every day. Way to go girl! Your story is your truth!

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monalyisha
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At the end of her memoir, LBJ tells us that in his final days, her father, Steve Jobs, repeatedly told her that he “owed her one.” Ostensibly, this is because he denied his paternity for most of her childhood, robbed her of the certainty of his love, and was often condemning & cruel. Once, out of the blue, in the kitchen one morning, out of what she thought was companionable silence, he told a teenaged Lisa that she had “no marketable skills.”👇🏻

monalyisha 1/4: He refused to heat her bedroom when she lived in his home. He intentionally left her out of family photos, asking her to stand aside. He treated her as the babysitter, as the help. He refused to pay for her senior year of college due to some imagined & unvoiced slight. He made her friends sob in public by criticizing everything from their dinner selections down to the sound of their voice. (edited) 5y
monalyisha 2/4: Some reviewers have called Lisa Brennan-Jobs whiny & proud, noting that her father never physically or sexually abused her. I think that‘s bogus. Abuse can take many forms. Though it‘s clear that she loved him, she also does a bang-up job of conveying her own vulnerability, uncertainty, desperation, & desire. She wanted something simple & natural, & it was withheld in inconsistent & insidious ways. (edited) 5y
monalyisha 3/4: Just because it‘s not the shittiest doesn‘t mean it wasn‘t shitty. It‘s not a competition. I still feel for young Lisa, despite the fact that she wasn‘t living in abject poverty or in a situation where her body wasn‘t safe. (edited) 5y
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monalyisha 4/4: LBJ‘s writing is evocative, in describing both California & her past. She writes clearly about muddy, gray feelings, morals, & memories. I think she views this memoir as cashing-in the “one” that her father owed her, by granting herself permission to write about him (when she once told him she wouldn‘t). Despite the excuses (he was abandoned by his family; he seemed to struggle with his own mental health), I still don‘t think they‘re even. 5y
Smarkies Thanks for this very comprehensive review. 😁 5y
LiteraryinPA Great observations. Thanks for sharing! 5y
IrishColleen Nice write up. I hope the book was cathartic for her...he sounds despicable. 5y
monalyisha Thanks, @IrishColleen! I hope so, too. Even if she embellished...I hope *embellishing* was cathartic. I don‘t think that urge comes out of nowhere; it comes from a damaged place. I think the suspicion with which memoir-writers are viewed is so black & white, unyielding, & sad. 5y
IrishColleen Yep, I think there is plenty of embellishment in memoirs. I read Educated (highly recommend) and remember that she went out of her way to give voice to siblings who had differing memories. This gave credence to her story, at least to me. 5y
monalyisha @IrishColleen I loved Educated. And probably would have loved it even more if I hadn‘t read Priestdaddy earlier in the year, which holds some small similarities but is *totally* different in tone. 5y
IrishColleen @monalyisha Hmmm... I‘ll check it out. Thanks! 5y
KT1432 This was a great, thorough review! It‘s always interesting to me how some people can be so successful career-wise, yet lack the basic skills of treating their family right. 5y
KT1432 And I agree with the abuse part. It‘s so annoying that people still think being physically “safe” = no abuse. 🙄 5y
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monalyisha
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“My mother was young, sensitive, and luminous, without the husband, house, and family that [other mothers] had. Instead, she had me, and I had two jobs: to protect her so that she could protect me; and second, to shape her and rough her up so that she could handle the world, the way you sandpaper a surface to make the paint stick.”

As the only daughter of a young mother, I feel this on a deep level.

marleed Oh, great pic! 5y
Cinfhen Both the passage and photo are amazing 💕💕 5y
Clare-Dragonfly That sounds sad and difficult to me! A child shouldn‘t have to take care of their mother that way. 5y
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monalyisha @Clare-Dragonfly I think her story is sadder than mine. My mom & I are very close. It was just the two of us for awhile. When you become a mom at a young age, you still have so much growing & development left to do as a person, let alone as a parent. You learn together. There are benefits to having/being a young parent, & struggles. 5y
Clare-Dragonfly I‘m glad you and your mom are so close. ❤️ You have matching literary tattoos, right? 5y
monalyisha @Clare-Dragonfly Kind-of! We have matching crown tattoos. Mine is literary (Max‘s crown from “Where the Wild Things Are”); hers is more decorative. 5y
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cwarnier
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#lmpbc #groupA
@nelehelen @BethM @Sharpeipup
Here area few books I was looking at for this round, any thoughts?

Sharpeipup How not to die alone is actually on my TBR 5y
nelehelen I‘m down to read any of them! 5y
BethM My vote would be How not to Die Alone. 5y
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Eggs
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So I look in your direction
But you pay me no attention, do you
I know you don't listen to me
'Cause you say you see straight through me, don't you🎶

Heartbreaking but frank memoir by Steve Jobs‘ firstborn-for most of his life Jobs refused to acknowledge Lisa.

#shiver #julycoldplay

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KGlibrarian
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Mehso-so

Well-written but I found this to be disjointed and not as in-depth as I would have liked. It‘s hard not to feel sorry for the girl Brennan-Jobs was as she looked to make sense of her identity but I found her stories to be odd at times and not a satisfying portrait of her life as Steve Jobs‘s daughter.

Lmstraubie Gretchen Rubin is going to have her on her Happier podcast, I believe some time this month, to discuss the book. 5y
KGlibrarian @Lmstraubie Yes, that was one of the reasons I read it—I love that podcast. I‘m excited to hear the conversation! 5y
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Megabooks
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Bailedbailed

#unpopularopinion time! After 100 pages, her writing style is not clicking with me, and I think her storytelling skills are mediocre. Just not willing to invest any more time. 👎🏻

Riveted_Reader_Melissa It‘s so hard to do, but some books just don‘t mesh with us. Let it go and enjoy something else! 5y
Chelleo Yeah, I just bailed on the highly rated and popular 5y
Megabooks @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Yes! After months of mostly nonfiction, I‘m sitting down with two fiction books tonight. 😁👍🏻 5y
Megabooks @Chelleo Bails happen. Like Melissa said, move on to something different to enjoy. 👍🏻 5y
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Megabooks
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What should I read next? I‘m leaning towards Small Fry because there was a long line at the library. Any suggestions Littens? @Reviewsbylola are you enjoying the 9/11 book?

Drocchio03 I read Prep years ago and remember not loving it; curious to hear what you think when you get to it. Also had Small Fry in my hand at the library this afternoon - but my TBR stack was already so big! 🙂📚 5y
mhillis I vote for Small Fry!! 5y
Megabooks @Drocchio03 I read the first 10 pages of Prep and wasn‘t grabbed by it, but I generally like boarding school stories. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I have been on the waitlist for Small Fry for awhile. I feel I should read it, but I‘m not sure it‘s what I‘m in the mood for. I‘m a terrible mood reader!!! 5y
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Megabooks @mhillis Did you enjoy it?? I‘m for sure leaning that way. 5y
Megabooks @mhillis If for no other reason than I don‘t want to wait in line again!!!! 5y
Megabooks @LeahBergen @shawnmooney Did y‘all read McGlue? What did you think? @L_auren Did I see it on your Instagram?? 5y
mhillis @Megabooks I haven‘t read it yet but it‘s the next book club pick on the podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin! 5y
Drocchio03 @Megabooks I can relate! My TBR list never shrinks because I‘m always grabbing new books that pique my interest that moment! 5y
LeahBergen We are starting to read it next weekend! 😀 5y
Megabooks @mhillis I started it, and it‘s pretty good so far! 5y
Megabooks @Drocchio03 Oh, that is totally me, too! 5y
Megabooks @LeahBergen I ended up starting Small Fry and Fall and Rise. You know how I am with nonfiction. 😏 I may end up reading McGlue next weekend, too. 5y
Reviewsbylola I finished it last night! 5 stars. I also loved Prep. 5y
Megabooks @Reviewsbylola I got about 75 pages in. I‘m liking it too. Mentally preparing to have my heart torn in half! 5y
L_auren @Megabooks DNF‘d McGlue! Weird because I‘m usually crazy for her work.. 5y
L_auren I wanna read prep soon! 5y
Megabooks @L_auren It sounds quite odd. Different than her other stuff. 5y
Megabooks @L_auren I‘m, of course, reading the two nonfiction books, but I might bail on Jobs‘s. Kinda mediocre. 5y
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akfreeborn
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I think this was a worthy memoir. I was sympathetic to Lisa and her challenging relAtionship with her dad. It was more interesting because it was Steve Jobs but it doesn‘t make it just celebrity fodder. Lisa uses beautiful language and phrasing throughout the book. It‘ll be interesting to see if she writes more in the future.

suzisteffen I definitely thought this was a good book, so painful, and I‘d like to see something by her that wasn‘t about her (pretty bad) dad. 5y
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cwarnier
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I am super excited for this #BOTM box that was on my step today.

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TangerineHaze
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Next book on my list...

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Eggs
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Pickpick

Well done memoir! She told her story in a clear and straightforward manner. Jobs could be a real butthole. ChrisAnn (Lisa‘s mom) was no picnic either

SaraFair Wow those mouths are identical- 6y
Eggs @SaraFair isn‘t that amazing? She‘s got that piercing look too 6y
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DocBrown
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Mehso-so

I feel for the author. I really do. Growing up with Steve Jobs as her dad was hard. Of course, so too was growing up with her mom. But there‘s a tinge of ‘poor little rich girl‘ to her account, one she never really acknowledges or explores. She can‘t seem to see her own privilege to be able to check it. This book prompted me to reflect on my relationships with my own parents and kids, which I think ultimately is the value of reading it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Suet624 Good point. 6y
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suzisteffen
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W h e w. I‘m aware that both Steve Jobs‘ widow and his sister, novelist Mona Simpson, dispute some of this memoir, but even if only half of it were true (and I‘m sure the publisher‘s lawyers did their due diligence, since they knew they might have to go up against Apple and the Jobs family), what an utter ass Jobs was to his oldest daughter. The writing is fine, of course, but DAMN. I hope the author finds some healing. 4⭐️.

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suzisteffen
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Just started this book and WHEW, it‘s intense! Steve Jobs, what a piece of work (like far too many parents, unfortunately). #nonfiction #memoir (I‘m also about to start Kiese Laymon‘s Heavy, so we‘ll see how this memoir-off goes ... )

Weaponxgirl I‘ve heard good things about both memoirs. Looking forward to seeing what you think 6y
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cariashley
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Pickpick

This book got me so angry and worked up - I rage-listened to most of it. It‘s an excellent and shocking portrayal of a very dysfunctional father-daughter relationship that hit a little close to home for me. My parents split up when I was a kid and I never felt like I had the most typical relationship with my dad. But wow am I grateful for him after reading this; it‘s heartbreaking. Steve Jobs was a serious asshole.

rubyslippersreads I haven‘t read the tagged book yet, but this book brought me to the same conclusion, despite my love of Apple products. (edited) 6y
cariashley @rubyslippersreads oh wow! I had no idea she wrote a book too. He certainly seems to have been a difficult, problematic figure up close. I‘m looking at my iPhone a bit differently! 😐 6y
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cariashley
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I‘m not even halfway through and this book is making me so angry. I grew up feeling like my dad wasn‘t around a lot, but he wins dad of the year compared to Jobs. At least it‘s making me appreciate my own father more. 😕

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heidisreads
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Just finishing up last week‘s #audiobook
Another #memoir from the #library
Tried the #Libby app but really still prefer the #overdrive app 😬

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britt_brooke
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Lisa was Steve Jobs‘s first child whom he vehemently denied until a paternity test proved otherwise. With an unstable mother and a severely judgmental father who was often cruel, Lisa had a tumultuous upbringing. Sure, some of this could be written off as privileged white girl problems, but I just don‘t think that‘s fair nor accurate. Every story deserves to be told and heard. Shitty childhoods come in many forms.

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heidisreads
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Happy MARCH!! Here‘s my #tbrshelfie 🥰 I have a busy month at work, so these might not all get read, but I‘m going to try! #march2019

Mowen036 The bride test is so good! 6y
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britt_brooke
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▶️🎧 Decided to go ahead and read this while I still have Steve Jobs on the 🧠. This is my first time using Hoopla and I‘m in love!

ErikasMindfulShelf Hoopla is great!!! 6y
britt_brooke @irre 💚 I‘m excited to use it more! 6y
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BookishMarginalia
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BookBabe Yaaasssss 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 6y
WanderingBookaneer I think @dialogofadream read this recently. 6y
dialogofadream I did! On Hoopla as well! 🙌🏽 6y
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AnneFindsJoy
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#nonfiction2019 #anotherpointofview an alternate peek into the life of Steve Jobs, this time through his daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs , who wrote this memoir of her early life. Lisa‘s mother and Steve Jobs had separated before she was born, and it took years for Steve to accept Lisa as his child - he finally did but in a very distant and limited way than you would expect from a parent. This is an unusual story and it‘s well written and thoughtful.

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Jdroper
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Pickpick

Well written. Sympathy for the author.

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Jeg
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Mehso-so

All I knew about Steve Jobs was that he started Apple and he had died. This was his daughters look at him. The daughter he denied until DNA came along. After reading I wonder how much Iike him she is/ was. Writing is very matter of fact. Not as emotional as I would have thought given how he treated her.
I came away from this book not liking him. Would now like to read someone else‘s point of view. @MrsMalaprop

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crazyspine
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Pickpick

I liked this more than I thought. I've never read any of the many bios of Jobs nor have I seen the movies about him, so pretty much everything she said was new to me. I could see how some people might be turned off to the idea of a white, privileged girl complaining, but I think she spoke her truth in a genuine way. I didn't get the sense that she was exaggerating for sympathy.

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stuck.in.the.stacks
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Tons of spoilers just showed up on the #botm discussion page. I think they are March's picks and extras.

@Cinfhen @allthingskayla @swishandflick @L_auren @Reviewsbylola

Reviewsbylola Wow, I‘m going to come out and say it. Their picks suck. 😬😬 It‘s making it easier and easier not to rejoin! 6y
Cinfhen Small Fry has been out for awhile and some of the others I feel I‘ve seen around. Thanks for sharing and tagging me. I‘m still addicted to #BOTM but I agree @Reviewsbylola the titles aren‘t so impressive😕 6y
KatieDid927 Omg Thick?!? 6y
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The_Heeler_Booklife Blahhhhh. The only one I would want is Enchantee, but I preordered it on my kindle and I have Gilded Wolves. Sooo, if these are for March, then it will be my first time skipping. 6y
stuck.in.the.stacks @allthingskayla same! I might get Enchantee but I'm not sure. 6y
The_Heeler_Booklife @felinesandfiction Enchantee has been on my must reads list of 2019 for a while since it looks really good, which is why I preordered it. 😂 6y
Velvetsun This is like the 3rd different list of botm books I‘ve seen today. 😆 6y
Lissa00 Hmm...interesting that they are just putting all these on here. I‘m not really excited about these, but couldn‘t find The Sky is Falling. Anyone know what that one is about? 6y
stuck.in.the.stacks @Lissa00 they are all on Book of the Month's site. 6y
Lissa00 @felinesandfiction I guess I meant that I couldn‘t find any information on this book elsewhere. Just researching and trying to decide if Feb is my last month😄 6y
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Christineann
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It‘s so interesting to me how common it is for people to believe that wealth equates to happiness. Ironically, I‘ve found that the more money one has, the more “secret” issues there are (usually with family). In the end, we are all just people. And people will always ebb and flow. Unfortunately, the death of a father will always color every thought Lisa has - especially because of their complicated relationship. Or maybe it‘s not so unfortunate.

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Jakaranda
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Trying diligently to read books from my stack and this is up next. Trying to read what I have before I keep buying more but was in San Francisco this weekend😆Have to buy a book at City Lights always and then head to The Booksmith in Haight Ashbury for more.

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shmreads
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Getting my car fixed. Also, Steve Jobs is a dickhead. Glad I sat on his bio for years, before I got to this first. Unlike most people, my perspective when reading Jobs by Walter Isaacson is gonna be very different.

wordzie 😁❤ 6y
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theshrinkette
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This poor woman's parents did a number on her. Especially Steve Jobs. I knew he was an asshole but wow he was SUCH an asshole. I feel so sorry for Lisa, and keep having ridiculous mean Steve Jobs nightmares because I listen to this right before I go to bed at night.

Bookladylinda I have this one on my TBR 6y
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theshrinkette
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Bless audiobooks for long commutes.

Julsmarshall Amen! 6y
Ashley_Nicoletto 🙌🏼🙌🏼 6y
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shmreads
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This could be finished in one setting, but I guess I just don't have the luxury to read in complete quiet settings all the time...

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