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I‘ve been MIA on here for a while. This book has taken me so long to finish. This was so emotional and terrifying I had to keep taking breaks and it made it hard to want to keep going. I‘m not a huge fan of non fiction so I think that‘s part of what made me like this so much. It‘s written in a way that you still feel like you‘re reading a story.

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Next up!! #LMPBC with some of my fave girls ♥️ our little group feels like a sisterhood 💪🏼

I‘m really excited for this one and also to hear some of your stories, Amanda ♥️

Diving in!

Also I like to match my pen colors to the books and I finally can bust out my brown pen that everyone makes fun of me for 😩🤣

Y‘all this was AMAZING. It was just…so good. I remember this storm, since I lived in Memphis when it hit. We didn‘t get nearly the tornadoes that Alabama did, but we got some PLUS the Mississippi River flooded part of our downtown. The first half of the book is buildup and the storm; I learned a lot! Second half is recovery and aftermath. I cried several times and had to put the book down for a while. Read it!!

I'm only about 30 pages in but this is electrifying, a stormy ride of emotions, fear, and anxiety about tornadoes.

Tornadoes? Tornados? My autocorrect seems to think both are right.

Wow, I really struggled to find a book in my collection that had #loveinthetitle ... Perhaps a throwback to when I used to only pick sweet valley high books without love in the title, so my mum wouldn't notice I'd started raiding the teenage section of the library... Anyway, this book's subtitle is "a true story of love and resilience in the worst superstorm in history" really fascinating mix of science and true story #17booklove @jess.how

I was expecting a scientific, distant reporting type book about the 2011 Tuscaloosa tornados. I was not expecting an emotional roller-coaster of a book that has managed to somewhat restore my faith in humanity. Sad but also hopeful. Really needed a book like this right now.

A tearjerker from the start, this book had me completely enthralled the whole time. As close as you can come to being in a tornado (and I have) this book places you in that space in that time in the peoples' perspective. A tornado is a complete and utter tragedy in any community but what this state went through that day is beyond words.

A heartbreaking and fantastic read. When these tornados were happening I didn't know the truth of the devastation. Cross does an amazing job of getting into individual stories and humanizing the whole catastrophe. It's a truly compelling story of a horrific event.

"But the same forces that destroy the walls that protect us also bring down the walls that divide us. And when everything else is stripped away, what stands is a truth as old as time: The things that tear our world apart reveal what holds us together."