Welcome to Litsy!

Ok I know I relate based on the title and the description. I had to look her up. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Ben rents a room from Winnie, who is elderly and a recent widow. Ben suspects that Winnie didn't really want him there, that she only agreed because her family thinks she needs someone there to watch out for her & help around the house. So Ben plans to stay out of her way, but then Covid lockdowns start. He and Winnie are forced to spend most of their time together, and a friendship ensues as they start to see life from each other's perspective.

I was never really a Britney fan - I was already in my 30s when she burst on to the music scene, and hence not her demographic! But you couldn‘t not notice her and her subsequent troubles, so I was interested in what she had to say. The first half is interesting, at times sad, at times rightly calling out an industry that treats women very differently to how it treats men. The second half is less engaging - because she finds it difficult to talk⬇️

Slogging through this one for the sake of book club tonight. You would think a book about a dominatrix would be super interesting. This is not.

Those poor, poor children 😪

Saturday morning #coffeeandabook

Has anyone read this?I'm so torn.On one hand, the empathetic side of me sees a teenage girl who finally escaped abuse and was teetering on the edge of suicide, barely surviving. On the other hand, her multiple calls to child protective services indicates that she knew her younger siblings were being abused,too.To what extent did she know is arguable as the abuse did escalate, but at minimum she knew there was gross neglect and physical abuse ⬇️

Interesting way of portraying her life and her close death experiences. She writes in an appealing manner, drawing the tale along. Some parts were quite sad to read, others amusing. I found the final chapter the most provoking.

4/5 🌟

When you mix narcissism, money, and blind faith… what could possibly go wrong? 🙏