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I hope to finish the tagged book today. I expected to hate it and I don‘t, so that‘s good. The Simpson mystery isn‘t grabbing me like her others but will give it a few more pages. A little progress on JAB.

Last Christmas my brother and I challenged each other to finish one book of the other‘s choice by this Christmas. The Lynch is that book which I tried to read a while ago. What misery! And I‘m only thru part 1. I will finish⬇️

I hadn‘t read any of Hatmaker‘s previous books. I found this to be a good memoir of a woman going through a sad divorce, reestablishing her independence and exploring her codependency tendencies. Her best work is her most vulnerable; her worst is when she flippantly brushes over her luxurious vacations given to her by her friends. It‘s a good book, lots to like, mild annoyance (or jealousy) for me.

LOVED!!

Current audiobook…I have never heard of this woman before I saw this memoir making the rounds, so of course I was curious.

Going into this blind was probably the best choice for me, because WOW

I admit I read this motivated in no small part by pure nosiness. I wanted to know “what happened.” I‘ve followed Jen on social media long enough to have seen some of her faith deconstruction process in real time, long enough to witness the backlash she suffered for her honesty about that process and her changing beliefs. Long enough to remember when her marriage fell apart and be curious about her divorce. This offers some of the details I was ⤵️

Jen Hatmaker takes the rude awakening that ended her 26-year pastoral marriage and turns it into a reflective and bold enlightenment, shining a light on the dark roots of shame, misogyny, and hypocrisy in the evangelical church and freeing herself and her readers along the way. I laughed, I cried, I cheered, I bookmarked, and I‘ve already given multiple copies away to family and friends. Fans of Brené Brown and Glennon Doyle, AWAKE is a must read!

Loved the vulnerability of the author as she reflects on the painful deceit of her husband, her divorce and her new beginning as she processed the “before“ and “after“ of her life. Great audiobook read by the author with a few extras.

The book is about the disintegration of the Hatmaker marriage and the rebuilding of her life. But it is no salacious tell all. Instead, Jen examines the troubled foundations under that relationship and her own part in its demise. With honesty and candor, she talks about digging through the rubble to understand the faulty building blocks and then how she began to start anew, with a stronger sense of self and healthier relational habits. Fantastic.