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Kelly’s 2025 Year in Books
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Kelly Kittel
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Howard R. Garis
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Breathe: A Memoir of Motherhood, Grief, and Family Conflict
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One thing that brings great joy to authors like me is when a reader takes a chance on our book and discovers that the journey was worthwhile. As a fledgling author, self-promotion is an uncomfortable necessity and I've yet to perfect a good elevator pitch for Breathe, which can be kind of a hard sell at first glance. I love to meet people but typically chat about all kinds of other things, knowing
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| Some memorable characters and funny bits, others were disturbing like the too-long captivity section. Just didn’t come together well enough for me. | |
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| A lovely story with some notable characters and interesting prose (…as if a cactus had just left a room full of balloons) but I found it overly descriptive (who cares what clothes Asher is wearing to garden?!) and it didn’t quite live up to the hype ...more | |
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| Enjoyable and informative expose on the kind of successful writing life and career that is the envy of many a writer, including myself. A bit repetitive but filled with interesting advice, such as ‘Being a writer requires having the confidence to thi ...more | |
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| Disturbing tale well-told by this gifted author. “Extracting the truth from my father was like trying to wring the taste of dinner from a dishrag.” | |
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| Great start to the new year of reading! | |
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| Compelling page-turner with great setting (Maine!), subject matter (hiking the AT!), and secondary themes (motherhood, foraging, birds). | |
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| I love this author and this book did not disappoint except that I had so many unanswered questions about Arthur that left me feeling incomplete. Great story with memorable characters, otherwise. | |
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| And they killed her so easily, but that was the point… Good read, all in all. | |
“But if you were going to change the chain of events that killed your child, where would you begin? How far back would you go? All the way back to their birth? And how many times had you saved your child’s life without even realizing how close you’d just come to disaster, to being one link too late in a chain of events that would wrap around your neck and choke you forever? How close had you come to knowing this place—the place where you collapse on your knees with one fist in your belly and the other clutching a blue GAP bag containing your baby’s ruined clothes, the place from which there is no going back?”
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“The real quality of existence lies in our thoughts, which wear no silks and taste no ice creams.”
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“But if you were going to change the chain of events that killed your child, where would you begin? How far back would you go? All the way back to their birth? And how many times had you saved your child’s life without even realizing how close you’d just come to disaster, to being one link too late in a chain of events that would wrap around your neck and choke you forever? How close had you come to knowing this place—the place where you collapse on your knees with one fist in your belly and the other clutching a blue GAP bag containing your baby’s ruined clothes, the place from which there is no going back?”
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“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
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That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
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“Tis a Fearful Thing
‘Tis a fearful thing
to love what death can touch.
A fearful thing
to love, to hope, to dream, to be –
to be,
And oh, to lose.
A thing for fools, this,
And a holy thing,
a holy thing
to love.
For your life has lived in me,
your laugh once lifted me,
your word was gift to me.
To remember this brings painful joy.
‘Tis a human thing, love,
a holy thing, to love
what death has touched.”
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‘Tis a fearful thing
to love what death can touch.
A fearful thing
to love, to hope, to dream, to be –
to be,
And oh, to lose.
A thing for fools, this,
And a holy thing,
a holy thing
to love.
For your life has lived in me,
your laugh once lifted me,
your word was gift to me.
To remember this brings painful joy.
‘Tis a human thing, love,
a holy thing, to love
what death has touched.”
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“A year and three months since that day, and two days before Harrison is scheduled to arrive, I take turns talking to both of my children. They seem to be in the same place right now—one dead, one unborn—which makes my life on earth feel even more tenuous. We’re right here, Daddy, I keep hearing, but no matter where I walk, I never find them. There are none of my children here, either, I think rounding every corner.”
― Once More We Saw Stars
― Once More We Saw Stars
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