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While slow in places, this is a very beautiful book, reminiscent in ways of Agee's A Death in the Family--not in terms of the story, but in the way it reveals so many characters. I love that Patchett doesn't resort to chapters headed by the characters' names but just shifts seamlessly through the hearts and minds of the different family members.

#CharacterCharm @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Mother&child

I don‘t like the tag line on this “the poignant true story of a mother and the son she had to give away” because she didn‘t give him away, he was taken from her.

After @MrsMalaprop review I listened to this. What a fascinating family. The writer Suzanne Chick finds out in her 40‘s that her mother is a famous Australian author. This is the story of that journey. I then watched her daughter Gina Chick find out who her grandfather was on the Australian series Who do you think you are. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #oznonfiction

I started reading this in 2023 but just finished it today. 😅 I even had a second cuppa this AM! (Very rare, I usually only have 1 in the morning, but it was so beautiful out and I wanted to nestle in with my book and coffee.) Glad I returned to the story of Taylor and Turtle who deserve all the happiness! 4/5⭐️
#100DayProject2025 Book 6/50
(July 11, 2025)

It‘s been a while since I enjoyed a book as much as I did this one. It‘s set me off researching other books. Watching Gina Chick on Who Do You Think You are and filling in the pieces not available to Suzanne when she wrote this book 30 years ago. How much we inherit and how much is environmental and then comes the choices we make. So interesting. Loved loved loved it.

Will you ever take
the necessary steps to
fill that hole you made?

#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #morelike4haikusadayihopenobodyminds 😳

A novel about adoption and the connection between the adopted person and birth parents. The emotional aspects of sealed records and struggles are often overlooked in what people hope will be a kind if “new love” for the adopted person and her/his birth parents. A reporter named Jane becomes involved in helping her friend Tuck. What follows is dangerous and more than a bit difficult. 3.75/5⭐️

Interestingly, enough

I #found a spine poem on my shelves:

Homebody life,
The knowing, trouble…

Kitchen table wisdom
in a special light.

Survival lessons
A tear and a smile
Man‘s search for meaning -
I‘d rather be reading

#Bibliophile

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

May 31st #Bibliophile FoundInTitle @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks