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If Betty turned against you, she would take you on, but if she loved someone, they would never stand alone.
Reading Bettyville; a memoir by the author of The End of Your Life Bookclub. He lives his apartment in NYC to return home to Paris, Missouri, for a pla ed 2 week visit to fill in for the regular caregiver of hid 90 yesr old mother. Both heartwarming and heartbreaking. If you've ever helped care for a parent, or even thought about what it might be like to do that, this book is for me.
“There was nothing to do but talk, which at times like these is all that’s left.”
― The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
― The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
“I’m happy to be alive,” and what the difference was, and how one’s tribe cannot be better than another tribe because they were all one tribe.”
― The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
― The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
“We are all here for a single purpose: to grow in wisdom and to learn to love better.”
― Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal
― Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal
“The wisteria vines on their own would just barely get by…but put them together with rhizobia and they make miracles.”
― The Bean Trees
― The Bean Trees
“Chona, for her part, saw them not as Negroes but as neighbors”
― The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
― The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Joanne’s 2025 Year in Books
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