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I didn‘t expect the news of Heather Armstrong‘s death to hit me as hard as it has, but I keep thinking about those early years of blogging, how the internet was different back then, how fucking funny Dooce was with her writing.

It‘s hard to reconcile some of the last posts she made with that person. They were harmful to a group including her child. They were alarming to anyone familiar with the mental illness struggles she wrote about. 👇🏻

I really enjoyed Rimmer's The Things We Cannot Say and this had equally good writing but had so many flaws. I should have DNF‘ed this and likely would have if it wasn‘t a background audio.

First, in 1996, we had stopped using the phrase "manic depression" - a professional certainly would have been using bipolar by then given that the official name changed in the 1980s and I'm kinda grossed out that Rimmer put the term in a book in 2020.

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I‘ve read two books back to back about mothers and their motives and now I‘m getting them confused. #booknerdproblems

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Came home from my after work walk and realized our lilacs are blooming. It's a beautiful day.

Not so good. Pretty much wishing I would have skipped this one. The action was so long and drawn out without much payoff. A decent enough example of the pressures of motherhood in spots but just a silly conclusion. Really doubt I‘ll remember anything about this book in a few months.

This was just really slow for me. Too many characters and things going on for me to keep track of and I just lost interest early on because it was too much. I think it just needed to be a little more clear and a stronger story.

3.5

I like books that I don't have all figured out before the author reveals everything at the end. This is a great mystery novel.

Jess turns up at the ER with her baby who has a skull fracture and her story doesn't add up. Liz is her bestie and happens to be on duty. And it escalates from there. It was hard to put down.

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