Avi Morris

Hi Avi, thank you for your friend request and I'm also an author as well as a prolific reader. I write in the Personal Development genre and am currently working on getting my first book, Law of Attraction Shortcut Secrets, published. I read a lot of memoirs, psychology, self-help - almost all my reading is non-fiction. I'd love to read your book. As a Clinical Hypnotherpist/Psychology major, I find reading true stories of childhood suffering greatly enhances my knowledge of the struggles people face as adults. Most of our insecurities, fears, anxiety, phobias, self-doubt, lack of confidence and many more issues stem from childhood. I've also created a private Facebook Group exclusively for authors who write in the Personal Development, Self-Help and Spirituality niches. If you'd like to have a look, here's the link.https://www.facebook.com/groups/16215... I look forward to reading your book. Maria McMahon

Thank you for the invitation. I am quite interested in your book.It is now on my to read list. We don't seem to have much in common in our to read lists. I do have Spilled Milk on my list,but truthfully I don't know if it is a book I can actually finish, because of its nature. I was a victim of child abuse,but never was taken from the home.Some memories are a bit to painful to rehash. I am willing to give this genre a chance.My favorite novel is,We Are Not Ourselves
by Matthew Thomas.It had a profound effect.

Mona wrote: "Thanks so much for your friend invite. I looked at the Goodreads preview of your book and have now added it to my to-read list. I noticed that you started with a quote from David Pelzer's book, [bo..."

Sorry it's taken a while to reply. Thanks for the recommendations. I haven't read it.

Avi

Avi,
If you are still looking for a good book on history I recommend Buckshot pie by Chris Gregory. It is the story of a local family in our area. Have a great day!

Thanks so much for your friend invite. I looked at the Goodreads preview of your book and have now added it to my to-read list. I noticed that you started with a quote from David Pelzer's book, A Child Called "It". I read it some time back(along with the sequels) and found it to be heartbreaking and unforgettable.

I will definitely enter your giveaway. I read The Girl Next Door some time back. It is a fictional account, based on the true life death of Sylvie Likens. The film, An American Crime, is based on the same case. If you haven't read or seen either, I definitely recommend them.

Thank you for accepting my invitation. I'm so glad for you that you survived. One of the unexpected thing for me is that perfect strangers come up to me at book signings and tell me that they've never told anyone before that they were abused as kids. It's always a little unsettling, but I do what I can to support them and make suggestions for help if they seem open to it.

The one comment I'll make about my book is that, while it's fiction, it isn't far from actual events that happened to my daughter and her sister. The events of abuse are similar to what I've been told happened to them. The foster care events are close to being a memoir of things that happened when they lived with us. As you can imagine from having suffered yourself, there was no way I could capture everything those children went through. That both survived better than anyone might have expected is a credit to their strength. I hope you like the book and thanks for your book recommendation.

Avi

Thanks so much for the friend invite and I look forward to reading your book :) Cathy Glass got me started reading these heartbreaking books , she is a caregiver and the miracles she works with these broken children - I highly recommend her books for you to read. As a caregiver yourself I'm sure you can relate to her stories. The happy endings in these childrens life's after going through such unimaginable torment is thanks to people like yourself and other caring caregivers , God bless all caring caregivers. I never in my life knew of such cruelties going on behind close doors to sweet innocent children :( I'm a survivor of domestic violence by my ex husband , thank God he never treated our children violently but I was afraid if I left him when they were young and defenseless , thinking in my fear at the time that if he didn't have me around to take out his brutality on that visitation without my watchful eye he may turn on them so I stayed until i knew they would be safe. God only knows what goes through a child's mind when faced with these things, I know what I went through and dear Lord these babies went through the same kind of heartache , abuse and more.Babies are God's gift to us to love and cherish forever , not what these poor children went through- it's heartbreaking.