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Ch. Fen 💦 🏊‍♀️

Audiobook for fun while cleaning today.
S&E Friends

What happened?!? 😝

Part 2 Update 1:
My Life by Andrew Bevel
+Table of Contents +Preface.

This Andrew has a different last name.
I am confused and CURIOUS.
So, there you have it—Don’t consider DNF’ing until after Ch.3. 😳

PS I’ve done twice as much THINKING about this book as I have done reading. From now on… I am going to read and only update occasionally. I don’t wanna give spoilers.

Part 1 Update 4:
The novel BONDS was very Gatsby-ish.
As if Daisy and Gatsby married.
Good or bad?? You’ll have to read.

Part 1 update 4:
No Spoilers….

The more I think about it, Part 1 The Novel BONDS and the cover art (OZ) is to leading me think see the man behind the curtain, is Andrew and the curtain is the novel.

And now I sound wacky.

I didn’t know until after reading Chapter three, and an online search, that this book has 3 Narrators.

Reliable or Not. I do not know.
But TRUSTING ANDREW? I am not.
I could be wrong.🤪

Part 1 Update 3:

Have you read this book?
I am thinking this NOVEL is trying to make someone look like a better, more moral person than they really are.

🤔 hmmm!

Give me your take without spoiling.

Part 1 Update 2:

After reading two Chapters, I found myself on page 53 and getting bored—it seemed very male centric and seemed to be turning financial. I didn’t know if I was in the mood to read that genre.
I gave the Table of Contents a better look. “Oh this is a fake Novel”. So, I read Chapter three it was getting juicy with the family dynamics. I read Chapter three again and just finished Chapter four.

Part 1 update 1:
Another book that I knew nothing about. The cover art reminds me of The Emerald City in the Wizard of Oz.

🏥 Helen and Benjamin

Chapter 1: my summary (a lot happens fast)

A novel by Harold
1662 - Copenhagen to Glasgow tobacco from colonies. Eventually moved to America.
Smoking=a place for men to get ahead.

Solomon dad owned a place in Cuba, spent winters there and wife (smoked cigars in private) had never been there.

Benjamin raised by nurses & governess’. Parents died when he was about 18/19.

He hated smoking and the business.

Part 5
1970-1971
Ch. 22

Part 4
1949-1970
👦🏽

Ch. 21 (and also 21 years)

The peach stand.
Brother? Where?
🪨 🪵 👦🏽

I didn’t know this book was going to bring up a political conversation in the text.

“It wasn’t until that moment I truly believed that towns could actually be erased from the map from their own land. That people could be forced out. Their homes and livelihoods burned and drowned.”

This paragraph.
Yes.
History repeats itself.
The Government finds “new” ways to take land.

“Zelda (Ruby Alice) first actual friend of my life.”

🪨 🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨
Carlos 👦🏽
🌱 🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪵🕊️

New 🏡
🌳 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🍑

Part 3
1955-1970

Ruby Alice 👵
🌳 📦 🏠

Seth 🛡️

1954 GovManDam + Peaches

1949 Alone

SHE WHAT?!?!?!?
She didn’t look back?!?!?
NOOOOO!

Ch. 12
She did it ALONE?!? 😳 🤔

Part 2
signed, Victoria.