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I’m finally learning to stop books I don’t want to read at least a page of each night.

It’s a delightful premise but I’m just in the mood for it. I’m walking through mud, without hooves! So I’m moving on.

I’m listening to it. It’s not grabbing me in the middle as it did in the end but that is likely a me-issue. Still great!

I’m putting this down and focusing on meditation for pain relief.

I’m not in the mood to read about pain so much. Maybe later.

Unbelievable beginning. My niece gave it to me as a gift b/c she thought of me while reading. 😂❤️ You were on the $, Care Bear!

For writers or anyone who wants to hear a human who examines life and herself like no one else, I highly recommend.
Lamott reads her prose like her poems. Her voice is captivating, but because the voice, words, ideas are so rich, I take small bites.
I want to underline (almost) every sentence, which only lessens.
I will likely read the hard copy as soon as I finish this. And try to avoid pens of any sort. 😊

The foreword of this book is better than most writing out there today.

This is a marvel of storytelling. I stay up late to read it, which I wasn’t doing often at all.

It’s beautiful, heartbreaking; you’re rooting for the heroes from page one - almost from word one.

M

I don’t what it is! It’s a gorgeous novel. Every other sentence I want to underline …. But I have tried so many times and it’s a snail’s pace for me. Slower.

So I have to accept that I must move on. In five years, who knows!

Regretfully,

Jeannie

Bought this for Joseph, my tween-future-lawyer-and semi-pro arguer. We’re both enjoying it thoroughly.

It may look like a kid’s book - it’s actually quite sophisticated. I’m learning a lot, and It’s making me miss teaching it.

Rereading 7th edition after many years (decade+??) for a class I’m taking on Writing Analysis of Lit (for teaching English).

I read the 4th or 5th in college and used it to teach English in ‘90s and ‘00s.

Will be interested in what’s changed.

Even though I am only roughly 30-40 minutes into this audiobook (you’ll want to listen to the first portion twice or thrice at least!), I know it’s a 5-star for me.

Who knows when I will finish - or if I want to!

Pope Francis is like a shot B12 right the soul of a discouraged, distressed, and sometimes disgusted citizen of Trump’s America. So small doses help a soul feel healthier on particularly awful news days. This man lives and feels and prays and writes like the person we wish we could be. God bless, Papa!

This is a fascinating story and clearly well researched. However, it is very much a nonfiction, less literary nonfiction .... hard history if you will. Not the engrossing escape I think my life calls for right now. I was reading it for a book club meeting I can no longer attend, so I’m setting it down for now. Will pick it back up!

I misplaced it! Help! 🥴

What a fascinating look at 18th Century Manhattan. It’s so easy to associate the North with abolition and the South with slavery, but 1 in 5 people at this place and time were slaves.

It’s reading like a very well researched and fascinating history but also like a mystery/conspiracy/spy story.

Looking fwd to my first history book club meeting about it!

And cannot put it down. Westley-I mean Cary Elwes is a natural and readable storyteller. If you find this inconceivable, this book is not for you.

It’s great. Ideas are profound but he explains it in such a readable, unpretentious way.