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marleed
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Pickpick

I really enjoyed reading about how much Hilarie loves her life and the people in her small New York State community. She loves all things witchy from mythology & goddesses, herbs & berries, planets & astrology, poetry and her collection of words is wisdom. She even purchased a haunted house. She seems to live a hygge life and I‘m down for that.

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
Becoming a Matriarch | Helen Knott
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
Becoming a Matriarch | Helen Knott
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“The world will Always Take what you are willing to give.”

We all need to be a little less willing to give, remember the old saying, ‘put on your oxygen mask first or you can not help anyone else‘. Save some space for yourself to just be, refresh, regenerate, get grounded, and just be in the moment and refill your own well before everyone drains you dry. “The world will always take what you are willing to give.” Save a little you for yourself

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
Becoming a Matriarch | Helen Knott
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Hello #SheSaid

If you were able to get ahold of this book, how did you like this week‘s sections? If not, did you sign up to get my book as it travels around visiting?

Sorry for the late post, but we can talk in the comments 😉

Riveted_Reader_Melissa There are a few quotes from those section that really stuck with me, I‘ll post them too. But although this is so much a book about the women in her family and their lives and letting them go, I love the way she grows through it & learns to be loving and fierce herself….become her own female head of the family. 3d
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Julsmarshall I was not able to get my hands on this book but you can keep tagging me, I‘ll keep trying 😄 3d
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Julsmarshall Do you want me to take you off the tag list for this month? If you asked before and I forgot or missed it, my apologies 3d
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Julsmarshall and if you go to last weeks post there is a sign up for the reading book share group 3d
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marleed
Running with Scissors: A Memoir | Augusten Burroughs
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Mehso-so

I‘m hard-pressed to give a memoir anything less than a pick out of respect for anyone capturing their story in published words, but I had a hard time reading this. Augustine writes with humor the life he led when the adults in his world had absolutely no business being in the company of a minor. I was so mad at the system for allowing a child these experiences that I found no humor here.

bookishbitch As a person who had a horrible childhood, the humor hits different and I enjoyed it. A copeing mechanism maybe? 1w
Ruthiella I remember being appalled through much of this book. 1w
marleed @bookishbitch I‘m so sorry you experienced a tumultuous childhood and I understand how it helps when you can relate and find humor in a comparable situation. 1w
marleed @Ruthiella I did not have a traditional childhood and am close in age to this author so I relate to all the cultural references. But all these years later it still breaks my heart that we neither understood nor acknowledged mental health- so many children suffered (and still do) because of that ignorance. 1w
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
Becoming a Matriarch | Helen Knott
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Hello #SheSaid!

I‘m really enjoying this book so far, not much overlap with her previous book, but the talk about matriarchs, carrying on the traditions over multiple generations, ties to & fighting for the land, the continuing line despite it all, the people that we lean on & in turn become the ones approached to lean on, all feel very solid & centering to me this week. Terrible things happen to people & a people, but humans & families carry on.

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Bailedbailed

I don‘t know what exactly I wanted out this book but I am not getting it.

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actualdisneyprincess
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Pickpick

A difficult story with a hopeful/happy ending.

This memoir is something else! The author was raised by two very mentally ill parents and was helping her dad deal drugs when she was a preschooler.

Unbelievable. Powerful. Well told. Well-written.

Suet624 Her early years were so wild. 2w
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
Becoming a Matriarch | Helen Knott
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Hello #SheSaid!

My book has arrived, so the schedule is up and ready to go!

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