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It was tough reading about the emotional struggle Molly dealt with as she re-evaluated her marriage and sexuality. It was also comforting to read about her determination to find comfort in a tough situation and push through to a situation better suited to her. I felt like her journey to define her sexuality is not over by the end of the book, but self discovery is a lifelong experience. I did wish she‘d done more with the star metaphor. #LGBTQ

Time for a #SuperSeptember readathon check-in for days 5 & 6:
✅Finish Bicycling with Butterflies
✅Catch up on 5 book reviews (7/5)
✅Finish Girl in Dior
✅Advance 20 pages in Sorcery of Thorns (40/20)
✅Finish Razzle Dazzle Unicorn
✅Start another audiobook
🟩Read 2 manga (Started Silver Spoon)
✅Finish half of these goals
Bonus:
🎧Started Frankissstein
🎧 Shiver (DNF)
🎧 The Fixed Stars
📙working on Swamp Thing

What I read during the Super Bowl. I loved most of it, but the last bit, with all philosophical stuff, was a little dry and made for flat ending. Off to re-ready the author‘s A Homemade Life.

A lovely memoir about a woman who unexpectedly experiences queer desire in her mid thirties after a decade of marriage to a man and a lifetime of believing she was straight. Themes: the knowability of the self, balancing motherhood with following your own path, and marriage / divorce. I always love to read about different queer stories that deviate from the "I always knew" category. Some beautiful little wise nuggets of writing in here too.

"But the ground did not resolidify. It was porous now, and fertile. I watched my desire spread like seeds on a stuff wind, stick to women in coffee shops and on the street and outside school. The seeds bloomed, proliferated like invasives."
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"The constellations we see are temporary human creations, our effort to draw order and meaning from a mostly unknowable universe, to tell ourselves stories, to guide our way home across endless oceans.

Marriage is like that too: a method we've devised to protect against the outside world, to make sense of the wonderful nonsense that is love."

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I enjoyed this memoir about marriage, motherhood and sexual identity. Molly Wizenberg thought she was straight until she began obsessing over a woman she met during jury duty. Molly and her husband explore opening their marriage, and learn to talk about feelings they hadn‘t voiced previously. They end up divorced, yet remain friends. The whole journey is interesting. #Audiobook read by Erin Mallon. #LGBTQ

As I envisioned it, my husband and I would be separate people. We would be as important individually as we were together, as a couple. We‘d be discrete entities with our own histories, energy and motion, but we‘d be bound to each other like stars in a constellation, a union born by the force of imagination and emotion, by the curious work of the human mind.

I find it fascinating when people who are lacking in insight about their own lives and circumstances write memoirs about those circumstances. Even when the author was with her husband, they talk themselves into something which obviously wasn‘t the case. Nonetheless, this book made me think about gender and sexual orientation, so I feel that‘s worthwhile. The audio is a bit choppy, but I don‘t know if that‘s the writing or the reader.

Working partially from home allows me lunch reading on the deck. Major silver lining ❤️❤️

A courageous story.

Oh God, how do I rate / review this memoir?
Molly‘s writing is beautiful. Soulful and raw, bold and honest but I‘m not sure necessary. This book felt like Molly needed to unburden her heavy load, to ease her conscience, maybe tell her “side” of the story. I think the author is a loving mother, but I question how her daughter June will receive this book in the coming years. Not my favorite memoir.
4 stars for writing
2.5 content

So excited to find this new memoir on #Hoopla 💜🙌🏻🎧 I read Molly‘s first memoir where she talks about growing up, leaving home, becoming a food writer and falling in love and marrying her husband. Now this one is about her falling out of love with her husband and meeting the woman of her dreams!!!

Molly Wizenberg tells her story of coming out when she was married to her husband Brandon. She is a memoirist by trade, so her writing seems seamless and flows very well throughout the book.

For my full review, please visit my blog at: http://obsessedbookaholic.com/2020/08/06/the-fixed-stars-book-review/

Thank you NetGalley and Abrams Publishing for an Advanced Reader‘s Copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

5🌟Memoir explores sexual orientation and identities complexities. At 36, Molly Wizenberg found herself attracted to a lesbian attorney she barely knew. At the time she was a mother to a toddler and had been married to her best friend, father of her child for almost a decade. The Fixed Stars is her journey of finding herself and her truth.
Written with sheer honesty, and much intimacy. Out Aug 4th! #bookreview

Just ok. I recently read Glennon Doyle‘s latest and, interestingly, it was similar to this but I enjoyed that one more. #ARC #netgalley

So I‘m currently listening to A HomeMade life by Molly Wizenberg ( it‘s REALLY GOOD) and I came across a new memoir by her, releasing May 2020. This new one sounds super fascinating. I‘m actually compelled to place the pre-order. I normally wait but I feel like treating myself. #TreatYoShelf