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My Boston Bookhaul!!! I went on a short vacation to Boston to see Hamilton and my best friends. I‘ve been working on reducing my book collection (recently got rid of maybe 40+ books?) and told myself NOT to buy any on my trip. But.... I couldn‘t help myself! I was left alone for a few hours and this happened. Excited for all the true crime!

Day 7: #MemoirMonday

Loved this tale of a big Irish clan's coming of age in South Boston in the 60s & 70s. Plenty of heartbreak, but some hope, too.

#ReadingResolutions @jess7 #AllSouls

The book portrays growing up poor and white in South Boston in the 70s and 80s. It‘s a very interesting read and it details how groups of poor people are constantly pegged against each other.

Multitasking: Getting my steps in and reading my book while the girls keep me company. #dogsoflitsy

Not sure I can give this memoir a proper review. It‘s a painful history lesson and a love story of South Boston, Southie. It covers the riots in the 1970‘s when desegregation took place, the reign and resultant devastation of Southie by Whitey Bulger, police corruption, the strength and despair of his mother, poverty, the death of four of his siblings, and his activism in gun buy-back programs. Won the American Book Award in 2000. #MountTBR

This book was so powerful and sadly semi relatable. It's the true life of a poor Irish Catholic family growing up in the projects of Southie. It covers all factors of race and socioeconomic issues, as well as police and government corruption. It actually explained a lot and put a lot of pieces together if things I have heard in the area from living here. These are the actually projects where most of the book took place.

I have jury duty tomorrow and need also need to start a new book. Which one will help me get out of it? A good title (The Verdict or The Story of a Sociopath), a local true life crime book (All Souls), a book I have been dying to read (The Alienist), or a book in the series I was reading (Under a Silent Moon)??

Vacation book haul... left one representing Maine and right one representing Boston.

Listening to this on Audible. I've read it 3 times over the past few years. Such a different experience to hear the author's words- and he is the one doing the reading.