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I‘ve sat on my #bookspin review for a couple of days. Blake‘s wife committed suicide at 39 just a few years into their marriage. She was a poet and had written a memoir about her dad‘s bank robberies and deceptions. He found out Molly was hiding secrets of her own. But is this intimate, unflattering portrait of a very troubled woman his story to tell? I‘m not sure. He lets himself off and his flaws off too easy. Good book but should it exist?

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I‘m excited to participate this month and read from one of my favorite authors @nina_lacour
This is the physical copy I own. The rest I have it as audiobooks and ebooks/kindles.
Who else is reading Nina?! 😃🙌📚

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“Stuff always happens, whether a day from now or years, stuff that will make a person glad to be alive, if you can somehow just ride through the self-hatred and the gouging and the bad.”

The moment I picked this book up I couldn‘t put it down. Reading how Caitlyn coped with her best friend Ingrid death by suicide hit close to home. This book really helped me appreciate life more and the people I care about. It also helped me realize my passion photography. The way they described developing the photos and taking them was perfect. I don‘t know if I would have realized that‘s what I want to do with my life if I hadn‘t read this book.

A description of life in a 22-storey building after the suicide of an elderly neighbour, revealing all sorts of cooperations, friendships (or more!) and secrets. I loved the detailed illustrations. The story itself was disappointing.

A very good book that‘s been hard to review. Fiction that reads like a memoir and heavy subjects. But I did really enjoy it. The narrative style is matter of fact as Jessica recounts painful life experiences - as it seems a scientist would do. I think this is what makes the book so creatively interesting despite the tough subject matter.

I have no doubt this will be one of the best books I read all year! As I finished, I literally said, “Wow…”

A family finds themselves living atop a cliff known for suicide attempts and take it upon themselves to be the savior of those “visitors.” Told from the perspective of the son, switching from the present narrative to the past (his childhood on the cliff), it really is about how the past holds on to us and us to it. Brilliant book.

Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish, has written his first memoir about his friend and brother-in-law William Nealy. Nealy was Wallace's inspiration: a cartoonist, author, outdoorsman. Wallace admired him so much that he became a writer himself. They first met when William was dating Daniel's sister Holly. Their friendship was shattered when William took his own life, leaving Daniel with a search for the reason why.