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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body | Roxane Gay

A heartbreaking, vulnerable, raw, intimate, powerful piece of writing.

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The Bookshop Woman | Nanako Hanada, Catriona Anderson

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Crying in H Mart: A Memoir | Michelle Zauner

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What an interesting book, a memoir and tribute to her heritage. I loved the brutal honesty around their relationship and how she tried to atone it. I also appreciated the desperation to reunited her memories through family and visits.

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Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir | Ina Garten

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Read by Ina herself, this audiobook is very much like her cooking show where she‘s warm and welcoming, often telling stories alongside her cooking demonstrations. I remember watching the Barefoot Contessa on the Food Network way back in the day and I always enjoyed her soft tone and approach. This covers her early days/parents (not so good) her husband Jeffry (really loves him), purchasing the specialty food store in the Hamptons, tv, Paris, more.

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6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets: A Self-Help Memoir | Jeffrey Skinner

#FeelinTheLove Day 1: #LovePoem or its failure, ostensibly.

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thanks for sharing ❤️ 10h

Eggs Perfection ❤️‍🔥 8h

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Jennie's Boy: A Misfit Childhood on an Island of Eccentrics | Wayne Johnston

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Canada Reads. First book finished. I was a little excited for this one, because I have seen it compared to Angela‘s Ashes. It is similar. Was it sad? Maybe, but I giggled a lot. Were the kids abused and neglected? Perhaps, but I never once doubted that they were loved. And Wayne Johnson is living proof that love matters the most. 4/5. The writing wasn‘t as good as it could be. I might reassess later, because I went in with very high expectations.

mcctrish Ooo adding to TBR 24h

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JenlovesJT47

Damn Glad to Meet You | Tim Matheson

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I‘ve been a fan of Tim Matheson since seeing him in a made for TV movie in the 90s. He has had a fascinating life & career & has been in so many movies & shows, including Leave It To Beaver, Bonanza, The West Wing, etc. And my forever favorite role of his is when he played Lucy‘s stepson on the hilarious movie Yours, Mine & Ours. He narrates the audiobook & does a great job. Highly recommended. 5⭐️

#audiobook
#biography
#memoir
#Hollywood

Butterfinger I never realized his career went that far back. 2d

JenlovesJT47 @Butterfinger me neither! Was very surprised to hear about him being on Leave It To Beaver. 2d

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Chelsea.Poole

My Broken Language: A Memoir | Quiara Alegria Hudes

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January is the time I use for catching up on missed books over the previous year(s). There are fewer new/shiny books distracting me from my tbr, so I‘m able to plow through it quicker! This memoir has high praise and has been on my radar for years. It‘s about family and identity, coming into one‘s own and the way language plays a part in all of these aspects of life. Quiara narrates her own story to add to the experience.

Soubhiville I loved this one! 2d

squirrelbrain I‘ve had this bookmarked on Everand for a loooong time! 2d

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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body | Roxane Gay

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Ms Gay bares her soul to tell us her story about her battle with her weight. She divulges how she was gang raped as at age 12 by a group of boys. She is open and honest about how she felt herself to be unworthy of being a “good girl” and therefore not worthy of being loved. It is really disappointing to know and understanding that people are very disrespectful towards morbidly obese people. It‘s hard to see anyone treated this way. 5/5

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Robotswithpersonality

Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir | Jennifer McGaha

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Whoa. That was A LOT. A lot more than I thought it was going to be. I'm sure part of that's on me for browsing available non-fiction audiobooks and choosing one based on title alone. But even within the realm of 'economic crisis leads to more rustic accommodations', that was a lot. 1/2

Robotswithpersonality 2/? I appreciated how the author reflected on the circumstances leading to the dire financial situation, it always feels like a good time to remind oneself of the importance of fiscal responsibility and the perils of a too cavalier approach to credit and loans, the danger in investing in real estate you can't really afford, though I did not see the 'didn't pay taxes, owe back taxes' part coming. Which kind of leads into a fairly major point 3d

Robotswithpersonality 3/? I didn't see coming.
McGaha appears to be a bit more clear-eyed at the time of writing this account, but the level to which she ceded financial matters to her husband (even if he is an accountant) sent a chill down my spine. Especially in light of the harrowing details related of her experience with domestic abuse by her first husband. 3d

Robotswithpersonality 4/? The interval where she basically went off to try out a better paying job in the Midwest and seemed to have the first time to explore her own interests as an adult (first husband in college, first child soon after), the fact that it seemed more like the land and heritage of Appalachia called her back than the idea of her husband and the burgeoning farm, part of me wonders if a woman from a different generation, 3d

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? less strongly connected to heteronormative relationship standards and generations of her family history would not have been happier elsewhere. Where the book ends doesn't leave me all that certain that she's happy, more like content with her lot, relieved it's not worse. It was a fascinating read for all that Gaha shared, the details of foreclosure, owing that much tax, the familiar tragedy of being underemployed 3d

Robotswithpersonality 6/? because full positions in chosen field are not offered but low paying temporary ones are, learning to acknowledge how much she may have been relying on someone else to make choices, look after things for her, how her husband was actually fairing, figuring out caring for farm animals, and making at least some of your own essential foods, but I'm still getting 'has not grasped the consequences of acting without thinking' off of some of her 3d

Robotswithpersonality 7/? behaviour and it's a little exhausting.
As a vegan reader the animal passages were rarely endearing. The attempted mental distancing from animals which are supposed to be primarily a source of food, even if they are not killed for meat, the effort to be philosophical about death and illness, the open admission of where McGaha and her husband mis-stepped and the animals paid for it, it meant that there weren't really any idyllic moments in the 3d

Robotswithpersonality 8/8 Am I too naive for hoping for a better ending from a 'making the best of it' book? Perhaps. But as much as I can admire McGaha's writing, reflections, vulnerability, her connection to her family, I cannot see making the choices she made, even if I can fully empathize with the mistakes that led to a limited number of choices available.
⚠️Domestic abuse, animal death, recounting experience of seizure 3d

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