Litsy

Found | Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

MemoirsForMe 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 2w

BooksandCoffee4Me Love this! Now I want to search for poems in my shelves! 😃💛💛💛 2w

julieclair This is amazing! 2w

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AnnCrystal That's incredible 🆒👏🏼☺️👍🏼📚💝. 2w

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love it! 😍 2w

Eggs @MemoirsForMe @BooksandCoffee4Me @julieclair @AnnCrystal @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank You All🙏🏻🙏🏻 2w

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LiseWorks

Found | Margaret Peterson Haddix

May 31st #Bibliophile FoundInTitle @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs This was a fun series! 2w

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MrsMalaprop

Searching for Charmian | Suzanne Chick

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What a story🥹. What writing 😍.
Imagine if you grew up knowing you were adopted and were told a fiction about the circumstances of your birth.
In your late 40s you get hold of your original birth certificate, and read your biological mother‘s name…famous Australian writer Charmian Clift.
This book was re-released after the author‘s daughter Gina Chick wrote her memoir, We Are The Stars, a book I read and loved in 2024.
Wonderful 🥰🙏👏

CarolynM I read this one a long time ago and I wondered if it would get rereleased when Gina‘s book got so much attention. It is a great book and a really interesting twist on the adoption story, don‘t you think? 2w

MrsMalaprop @CarolynM Yes, so interesting and well done by Suzanne Chick. 2w

Rissreadswithcats Staaaaaaaaaaaaaacked!!!!!!! 💙 2w

Rissreadswithcats I just realised today that with my Spotify account I get 15 hrs of free Audio book listening. This was included. It scraped in at 14hrs and 48 mins 🤣 I‘m so excited! 2w

Jeg Can‘t wait to read this. Heard her on the radio. 2w

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konlitsy

Never Knowing: A Novel | Chevy Stevens

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Driven by curiosity, she searches for her birth mother, only to discover that her mother was a serial killer's victim—and she herself is a by product of that tragedy. Her life unravels as she becomes entangled in an FBI investigation while grappling with personal turmoil. The chilling developments that unfold are full of suspense. Narrated in the second person, the chapters are written as psychological sessions, adding depth to the narrative. 🎧

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Karisimo

Family Family: A Novel | Laurie Frankel

#abtadoption #bibliophile this one covers both sides of adoption through one unique character.
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs It sounds good 👍🏼 1mo

willaful Oh, I loved This Is How It Always Is but for some reason haven't read any of her other books. Will have to remedy that. 1mo

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Kshakal

Yes, I'm Adopted! | Sharlie Zinniger, Tiffany Cunliffe

#abtadoption #bibliophile @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 1mo

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LapReader

Searching for Charmian | Suzanne Chick

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I think the sun is going down on my last summery day 😭 so I am sitting on my balcony reading about books and drinking a birthday bottle. I think the tagged book will be the one I take to the Sydney Writer‘s Festival this year to read. Turns out my parents will be in old Sydney town for dad‘s drs appointments to do with his accident not this January but the last so we will catch up for dinner both nights and they have booked the same hotel as me.

TrishB Sounds like a plan. Love your glass ❤️ 2mo

LapReader Thankyou @TrishB It was a gift from an old man whose wife I work with. She is way past retirement. I don‘t have a license so he would drive me home from work once a week in exchange for the use of my sauna as it helped with his emphysema which he died of eventually. They were his mother‘s and so delicate. I cherish them. Very generous people. 2mo

TrishB Oh that‘s a lovely story too (sad but lovely!). Beautiful and good memories. 2mo

CarolynM This was such an interesting book. I‘ve been thinking about it a lot since Suzanne‘s daughter‘s book has been out🙂 2mo

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Susanita

Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search (Movie Tie-in) | Martin Sixsmith

For a few years I made a concerted effort to watch as many of the nominees as possible, but even with that I only managed 30/116; some were pretty memorable though.
1. Philomena 😭
2. Lion😭
3. Get Out 😱
4. Barbie 🩷🩷

1. Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/academy-award-nominations-list-5-2010-2024

#TLT