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Very tragic reflection of life after being lobotomized at 12 years old. Howard Dully created an NPR segment that I‘ll also have to check out. Very sad. Tissues needed.

September/October #ReadingBracket2025 Nonfiction
Kelly Bishop just stole my heart and the quarter final spot. George Takei's graphic memoir was a close second. October's winner was the soothing nature memoir, Something in the Woods Loves You

I admire his transparency about his anxiety - it sounds so debilitating and exhausting
I‘m glad he thanks his wife becasue holy shit she lifts and carries the family often

I meant to return four library books and borrow three, but I found the tagged memoir on the New Stuff display, and a short fiction collection, and then a couple plays jumped out at me (one of which, DRAGONFLY by Laura Rae, I accidentally put behind the other for this pic), and here I am with a STACK.

#doublespin is a #dnf. @TheAromaofBooks

Although I wanted to know what happened, I didn't like Eleanor's character, and wasn't keen on picking the book back up. I ended up reading the Wikipedia entry!

Bag #5 this book is expressing really well how exhausting anxiety is 😢

This is an interesting collection of reflections on human connections, written in the context of the COVID 19 pandemic. I didn't find his observations on inequality and the wider world particularly original (maybe that's a little harsh), but his insights into his creative process, his mental health struggles and his life experiences generally were really illuminating.

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