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Loving this so far!

Tell me you don’t have a puppy in your arms.

I don’t...I have him in a basket.

“The total contradiction between who she was to what she did is unfathomable.”

If it was easy everyone would do it. It's tough, but so are YOU!

We all have light and we all have dark. Sometimes its up to us what side wins and sometimes it is not.

“Rapists rely on the silence of their victims to elude accountability. Simply by recounting their stories and breaking that silence survivors of sexual assault strike a powerful blow against their assailants.”

"Trauma has made dark what was once painfully clear"

Participating in the #RowlingAStrike Read Along on Instagram a month late. I promise (hope) to be caught up and at least finish the second one closer to that benchmark.

What is in that dang box already?!?!

"That is really all that needs to be said about personal experiences of gods or other religious phenomena. If you've had such an experience, you may well find yourself believing firmly that it was real, but don't expect the rest of us to take your word for it especially if we have the slightest familiarity with the brain and its powerful workings."

"Horrible as sexual abuse no doubt was the damage was arguably less than the long-term psychological damage inflicted by bringing the child up Catholic in the first place." - In response to the rise in sexual assault allegations against priests

Chapter 9."The only acceptable majors were medicine or law, unless you were truly dumb, in which case you settled for accounting"


... Can I be offended by a book? I'm an accountant. :(

Contact @angelareadsbooks on IG to join in on our DM book discussion and read along of this book throughout July.

Discussions:
Part 1 - July 10th @ 8pm EST
Part 2 - July 17th @ 8pm EST
Part 3 - July 24th @ 8pm EST

How can I not be drawn into this child's perspective of this tragedy that unfolds in the first few chapters of this book. It's raw to see what happens through the simplicity of a child's eyes. You are not distracted by the details that an adult might bring, but simply notice the emotional effects it holds.