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Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Reichl

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Presented as a book, this slim, 110-page volume is really an extended essay written by the wonderful, enchanting Ruth Reichl about her mother, Miriam, their fraught relationship, and Ruth’s conclusion that her mother, in raising her with what looked to me like a crushingly harsh and demanding attitude, was trying to help Ruth avoid the […]

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The Beginning of Everything

Monday, March 5, 2018

Bleh. I am annoyed. This YA novel has a blurb from Jeannette Walls on the TOP of the FRONT of the book calling “dazzling.” Ms. Walls, YOUR book, The Glass Castle, was dazzling. This book is a lot of “tell, not show” with a annoyingly neat plot that, like so many soap operas, relies on […]

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A Year And Six Seconds: A Love Story

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Follow up to It Happens Every Day. What a lovely, easy writing style Gillies has. I feel a bit envious, really.

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The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Saturday, February 24, 2018

A mixed bag. A paean to the beauty of female friendship. A sassy slice of Louisiana bayou life. A tragic story of the inheritance of childhood abuse. Loved all of that. Did not like the way the story toggles between present-day northwest and 1940s and 50s Louisiana. Sometimes the language veered into maudlin.

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The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

Saturday, February 24, 2018

Tender and tragic. Doctor father delivers his own twins on a snowbound evening and, discovering that his daughter has Down Syndrome, asks only attending nurse to take her away to an institution. The lie he tells his wife about her daughter’s death rots in their marriage like a cancer while the nurse, unable to abandon […]

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Mom, I’m Gay

Saturday, February 24, 2018

Written by a Christian parent of LGBTQ children for parents who are trying to reconcile their child’s orientation with what they think their faith says about it. Simply written, very kind and gentle about parents’ fears, and uncompromising about love and acceptance being God’s only call.

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