panI really enjoyed Rimmer's The Things We Cannot Say and this had equally good writing but had so many flaws. I should have DNF‘ed this and likely would have if it wasn‘t a background audio.
First, in 1996, we had stopped using the phrase "manic depression" - a professional certainly would have been using bipolar by then given that the official name changed in the 1980s and I'm kinda grossed out that Rimmer put the term in a book in 2020.
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janeycanuck Second, I was uncomfortable with how Rimmer dwelled on Beth's struggle with post-partum depression. Did she think her reader wasn't picking up what she was putting down? It became tedious and boring, very quickly. Also, Beth seemed to overcome her postpartum depression with just a couple of sleeping pills? Hmmmm.... 2y
janeycanuck Third, Patrick's "redemption" was unbelievable. I don't buy how quickly he turned things around. I understand grief does strange things but there would have been withdrawal, at the very least, to deal with. 2y
janeycanuck Fourth, what the hell was with Beth repeatedly referring to her mother as Grace? That was just weird. She was a child, she would have known her as her mother and for her to have memories of her mother but refer to her as Grace and not as her mother in her 30s was off-putting. 2y
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Hooked_on_books On the upside, great puzzle! 2y
janeycanuck @Hooked_on_books It really was!! 2y
BkClubCare Puzzle! I have the notecard set. FYI the book second from the bottom is on sale on Amazon.![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
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The History of Lovejaneycanuck @BkClubCare it was a fun one to do. Sadly, that book isn‘t on sale on .ca. 2y
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