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I'm rating this audiobook a pick because I like Jack Whitehall and it gave me a few laughs. Father and son read alternate chapters. Their frequent interruptions of one another and constant bickering was entertaining at first, but became tiresome pretty quickly, as did Whitehall Snr's high Tory attitude but I liked his story about a date with Carol Thatcher. Anyway, it was perfect for the #Booked2020 #Parent&ChildMemoir prompt.

Very interesting memoir of a woman who returns to Korea as an adult, having been adopted by white Canadians as an infant, to go through the challenging process of finding and then building a relationship with her birth family. She finds a complex family, including parents who had been estranged by her birth, with multiple generations and a variety of values and experiences.
My #Booked2020 pick for #parent/childmemoir.

This was a really interesting read and I certainly learnt a lot about The Netherlands during WWII.

I did feel that there was more fact than emotion in the book and that, therefore, I didn‘t learn as much about Audrey, and in particular her relationship with her mother, as I would have liked. (Her mother was a Nazi supporter for quite a while into the war)

#readingeurope2020 #netherlands
#booked2020 #parent&childmemoir

Another wonderful book to listen to. I really had no idea what all Julie Andrews has done and been through. I hope she writes another because I know there is still more to learn if she is willing to share. She wrote this one with her daughter so I‘m using for #parent&childmemoir for #booked2020

It‘s a tough read and sometimes you just don‘t like the author and sometimes you‘ll just judge her but sometimes you will feel sympathy (or empathy) and wish her the best and be in despair that we have politics that let‘s this happen.
Much to talk about. But this isn‘t a story about the working class as a class, it‘s not universal. It‘s about another class that has slipped beyond any societal norms, seemingly without anyone 👇🏻

This isn‘t a ‘typical‘ childhood - Tania comes from an aristocratic family, was brought up by a nanny and hardly saw her mother. The book partly covers her childhood between the 2 World Wars but also looks at her mother‘s life too. Moura was what we would perhaps call a ‘socialite‘, and had affairs with Maxim Gorky and HG Wells.

#readingeurope2020 #estonia
#booked2020 #parent&childmemoir
#mandmchallenge2020 #history