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TheBookgeekFrau
How to Be a Grown-Up | Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great cover 👠 4d
Eggs Perfect 👠 👟 4d
Trashcanman I think I need to read this. I‘m a child growing older. ❤️ 18h
TheBookgeekFrau @Trashcanman 😂 It didn't help me! 😂 13h
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Lindy
Boulder | Eva Baltasar
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For my friends on Litsy who like a reminder when I post a new video about my reading, here‘s a link: Friday Reads 03/14: 10 books from 9 countries

https://youtu.be/M_NYB1phWlQ

#booktube #CanLit #poetry #LGBTQ #InTranslation

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Shemac77
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Pickpick

Great!

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Shemac77
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Next audible

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MyNamesParadise
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Pickpick

Read this 4 book club! I really liked it! It‘s a family saga, but not a long, drawn-out one. It‘s very accessible. A lot of characters to get used to at 1st but it gets easier. I‘ll be eager to hear what ppl thought of Lila & her way of parenting. It has a satisfying end. Some heavy topics at times but very well done! 4 stars.

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AmyG
Soldier Sailor | Claire Kilroy
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Sue, thank you so very much for sending this lovely book. I look forward to reading it. If you enjoyed it chances are I will, too. And this card is beautiful-I put it up on my shelf. 😘 my friend.

@Suet624

TheKidUpstairs I loved this one! 1mo
AmyG @TheKidUpstairs ooooo 🙌🏻 1mo
TheBookHippie You‘ll love this! 1mo
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Suet624 I'm so glad you received it. And I absolutely adore the drawings by the artist - he does a lot of animal drawings, but I'm most fond of his nature scenes. 1mo
AmyG @Suet624 Reminds me of VT. ❤️ 1mo
Suet624 That it is. 1mo
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Centique
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Pickpick

Rachel Cusk wrote this memoir (almost a series of essays) about becoming a mother in 2001. Cusk talks about motherhood in both an intellectual way & a personal way - theres a little humor but theres a lot of distress in here. For me it is the first book ive read that captured some of the trauma & undoing of self that i personally felt going full speed from a difficult birth into a severe lack of sleep & feelings ⬇️

Centique of failure. Cusk had a far longer stint in that hard place than me but im so glad she got the essence of these experiences down on paper. It helps me to remember that time and to empathise with anyone going through that right now. 1mo
Suet624 Did you read Soldier Sailor? I wonder how it compares. 1w
Centique I havent read that yet @Suet624 Ive heard it will make me cry though! 1w
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Suet624
Soldier Sailor | Claire Kilroy
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Pickpick

Not that it will happen, but every soon-to-be father should be required to read sections of this book. A woman explains what her life has become once she has become a mother. Her husband is busy at work and he abdicates all responsibility for the child. The exhaustion, anger, disappointment, loneliness, desperate love and raging anger toward a young child, all of it was perfectly described.

#offtheshelf

Tamra I was lucky, my husband was really great co-parenting both of our children as infants & tots. (Not that he isn‘t now, but that‘s the focus of the novel.) I have serious admiration and at times sympathy for single parents & guardians without a source of support. 1mo
Suet624 @Tamra my situation is so varied. Three marriages, children every 7 years with the last two being twins. I was a single mom occasionally. My last husband was very helpful. The others, not so much. Living in a commune with my first child was VERY helpful. 1mo
TheBookHippie I agree. A must read. 1mo
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Tamra @Suet624 I can see any arrangement with multiple responsible adults in a household with small children would be a great fortune! 1mo
Suet624 @Tamra it really was the best. 1mo
BarbaraBB I loved this book too. That husband though. I can‘t imagine living with and tolerate such a man 1mo
Anna40 I think most men,even if they read it, would still not understand. But great review! 1mo
Suet624 @Tamra I was thinking about your comment again and it made me wonder why some men are great at understanding the needs of a new mother and others aren‘t. Probably a million reasons but I‘m glad yours was on top of things. 😊 1mo
Suet624 @BarbaraBB I know! And I fear it or some variation of it happens more than we like to think. 1mo
Suet624 @Anna40 oh my. You might be right. 1mo
Tamra @Suet624 we were way older than average and ready so that was part of it and my husband isn‘t thoughtless. 😂 1mo
Suet624 @Tamra that‘s a great point about age. That‘s definitely a huge factor. (edited) 1mo
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TheBookgeekFrau
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Lots of laughs about motherhood and some bittersweet thoughts about aging.

10/80

February #BookSpin @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader

DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1mo
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TheBookgeekFrau
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Moving on to this month's #BookSpin
Oh! And lookee there #Roses on the cover for #FeelinTheLove 😁

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2mo
Ruthiella I used to love reading Bombeck‘s column in the paper as a kid. (edited) 2mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️🌹❤️ 2mo
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Eggs Love Erma 🌹❤️ 2mo
MemoirsForMe Erma! 🙌🏻 1mo
TheBookgeekFrau @MemoirsForMe She makes me giggle 😁 1mo
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