Reading this for May bookclub and enjoying. Thank you Marge for selecting it.
In his acknowledgments the author thanks his mother for her love of language and his father for his love of story, both of which he uses copiously in this book.
Reading this for May bookclub and enjoying. Thank you Marge for selecting it.
In his acknowledgments the author thanks his mother for her love of language and his father for his love of story, both of which he uses copiously in this book.
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Prompt: MOONLIGHT
Welcome to the 50's.....Grandma and Grandpa taking care of children, Mom gone, only Dad. Doesn't sound like the 50's to me....sounds more like the way families are today.
A nostalgic trip back to a life that should have been filled with stable families, but…
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I‘m a little late with this, but last week I received #athingaday from @DinoMom and it made my day! I put the coffee pins up at my cubicle in my grad office 😊🍂☕️💛
My almost-teen has very specific but eclectic interests. 😂 These are his recent purchases. On the one hand he still loves Captain Underpants and Dog Man, and has read all the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books multiple times. On the other his bedtime reading lately has been geopolitical non-fiction. He's finished Prisoners of Geography, and is ready to move on to The Power of Geography.
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moments of wit and even lyricism, and the opening is charming, but it descends into relentlessly charmless narcissism. The superficial manic pixie dream girl surface glitter may seem fun, but a warning: it may be triggering as it deals with cutting, rape, suicide, & eating disorders in a glib tone. Uneven & I ended up wishing the writer's parents had written their memoirs as they came across as fun, well-rounded and empathetic. The writer did not
NOT what I was expecting. And all the better for it.
The author is 59. Her youngest daughter is leaving home, her banana tree is part of the family, & the chances of her acquiring the grand house she‘s always planned are receding. So what Real Estate does she have? Or Un-Real Estate, come to that?
A surprisingly funny, wise, relatable, comfort-ready memoir-of-a-year in-essays type-thing. I will read her novels.
Audio read by Julia Stevenson👍
So so much to partially identify with - just more proof that everyone's experience of failing gender is different.
I think Rae's journey resonates more with me personally, especially the retiring from gender and gender as narrative portions.
Ivan's journey to get and recover from top surgery told throughout is beautiful and emotional and funny, it feels like the backbone of the book. 1/?
The whimsy! It's the moose (more Canadian than cows, I suppose) being beamed up that got me.