so-soI ended up liking this book, but I‘m a sucker for memoirs. Things moved along nicely throughout—it read like a friend telling you stories.
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Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir | 
so-soI ended up liking this book, but I‘m a sucker for memoirs. Things moved along nicely throughout—it read like a friend telling you stories.
Listening to this inbetween reading The Zookeeper's Wife.
An interesting memoir of two girls from South Africa beginning with the tragic fate of one.
so-soI found this 5-hour #memoir on Audible Plus. Sheila tells about her life in South Africa and the untimely death of her sister at the hands of her brother-in-law. It had its interesting parts but suffered from the lack of a linear timeline imo. 3⭐️The author was the narrator, and she sounds a bit like Helen Mirren, but maybe it‘s just me!
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Firstly Allissa I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and sorry Australia post is so slow at this time of year😬Thank you so much for my first Litsy swap the #ChristmasBookSwap. It is fantastic. I have not read Once we were Sisters, The Girl Before or The House of Unexpected Sisters. I will love rereading Mansfield Park whilst I sip that gorgeous tea!! I really appreciate your thoughtfulness😘
#TBRtemptation post 2! A Best New Book by People magazine when this came out. When she was 37, Sheila was stunned to find out her older sister, Maxine, died in a car accident in Johannesburg. She flew back home to find answers and reckon with their childhood, one where their father died early and their mother consequently grew distant. They studied abroad together and both married regretfully. How to move on from here? #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎
so-soI was hooked by the beginning of this novel, expecting a tragic but compelling story of the bond between two sisters and the sheer devastation of domestic violence. That story was there, but it got lost in Kohler's ranging telling of the tale, casually tossing details of her own love affairs, studies or luxurious trips. At the end there is still a dead sister but not the connection I hoped to feel with her, or the author for that matter.
Another fascinating (though seemingly quite tragic) memoir. This one is set partly in Post WWII South Africa and partly in the US and it's compelling from the first words (on audio and read by the author).
pickGood audiobook! But it‘s shorter than it advertises. 😄 A sad story really, Sheila Koehler is telling the story of her sister, killed by her abusive husband but unable to bring him to justice since it looked like a car accident. She still has emptiness without Maxine 35 years after she died.
so-soParts of this I found interesting but by the end she kept referencing her books (that I haven't read) and I just wanted to hurry up and finish.
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so-soWell, there's really not a whole lot to this memoir, which it seems the author told in an alternating timeline to make it more than it is. Losing a sister is an incredibly difficult thing.
I do think it's strange that the last two books I started mentioned jacaranda trees in the first few pages. Top book Once We Were Sisters, bottom book Borderline from my last post.
I remember having this same conversation with my mom!
First order of business tonight- researching the book choices chosen for our family book club! My mom, my 3 sisters, and I are going to Florida in April and want to choose a book (or two) to read together while we're there! We all submitted three options and will vote on the winner- each first choice gets 3 pts, second gets 2, and third gets 1. The book with the most points wins! One of my submissions was Once We Were Sisters... seemed apropos!
