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Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Fire Shut Up in My Bones | Charles M. Blow
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A New York Times Notable Book | Lambda Literary Award Winner | Long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award Charles Blow is the James Baldwin of our age. Washington Blade [An] exquisite memoir . . . Delicately wrought and arresting. New York Times Universally praised on its publication, Fire Shut Up in My Bones is a pioneering journalists indelible coming-of-age tale. Charles M. Blows mother was a fiercely driven woman with five sons, brass knuckles in her glove box, and a job plucking poultry at a factory near their segregated Louisiana town, where slavery's legacy felt close. When her philandering husband finally pushed her over the edge, she fired a pistol at his fleeing back, missing every shot, thanks to love that blurred her vision and bent the barrel. Charles was the baby of the family, fiercely attached to his do-right mother. Until one day that divided his life into Before and Afterthe day an older cousin took advantage of the young boy. The story of how Charles escaped that world to become one of Americas most innovative and respected public figures is a stirring, redemptive journey that works its way into the deepest chambers of the heart. Stunning . . . Blows words grab hold of you . . . [and] lead you to a place of healing. Essence The memoir of the year. A. V. Club
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OriginalCyn620 Good choices! 4y
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Excellent. Must read.

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Quite an opening as I squeeze in a few minutes to start this before leaving for work. Man blazing down the road to kill his cousin. I think I might fly through this memoir.

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MicheleinPhilly
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SUPER SALE ALERT!

This one is fantastic. HIGHLY recommend.

8little_paws Yes!!!! Thanks for the heads up!! 7y
LauraBeth Why have I never even heard of this?! 7y
Christine My thoughts exactly, @LauraBeth. Can't wait to read this one - thanks Michele! 7y
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MicheleinPhilly @8little_paws @LauraBeth @Christine It's not an easy read but it is so very good. 7y
8little_paws @MicheleinPhilly I read it from the library when it first came out and I completely agree. I've been waiting for the right time to buy. 7y
8little_paws @theshrinkette this is the book I recommended to you at the book cellar 7y
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I had a great month of reading in February! Favorites were definitely Difficult Women, You Can't Touch My Hair, Beasts of No Nation, and Fire Shut Up in My Bones.

TrishB Great pic😀 7y
kristinshafel @TrishB Thanks! I made it with picmonkey 😊🐵 7y
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Last day of #Riotgrams, day 28: #BookishConfessions. I've had so much fun with this month-long challenge! So I'm not sure this is a confession so much as a quirk, but what I do with every book I read is see how many pages there are total, then find the middle of the book and look at it. Every book, every time. I even do the math in my head with ebooks and audiobooks (how much time = halfway).

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diovival I do this a lot too! 7y
Donna_sBookMinute Great idea! I read with two bookmarks -- one to mark the page I left off on and one to mark the point I want to reach by a certain time. 7y
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Catching up, #Riotgrams day 15: #BooksAndTreats. Worst picture ever, but that's my read for my International Book Club with my bestie back in KC (it's a club of just us two...) and oreo brownies I made for my honey for valentine's day.

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Blow writes with a beautiful sense of place. He takes us through his small-town, just-making-ends-meet upbringing to growing into himself as a man. It's always a gift when someone lets you see the world through their eyes, with all the good and bad bits that make us all human.

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"Tears flowed out of me from a walled-off place, from another time, from a little boy who couldn't cry." #firstlines #tuckedin #bedtimereads