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Gosh... What soulless freak can ask her daughter to practice the song for her mom's funeral 🙈
When I think it just can't get worse, it does...

As a mom, I just can't comprehend how her mom could do what she did, and say what she said....


"I am not your mom anymore.
P.s. don't forget money for the fridge" - insane... 🥺

Well, now, since I have a book from the school library (thank you, Emma), I can start reading it at last!

First few pages - and I can't stop thinking of Sam and how he was catching mice in our backyard... He would have been a great warrior cat. Miss him enormously ❤️

The way the Author describes Rusty's dream with a mouse brings lots of memories of Sam and his adventures in the neighborhood...

У 6 днів стати королевою Шотландії...

У 15 вийти заміж за 14-річну хвору дитину 🙈 - спадкоємця корони Франції ...А у 17 стати королевою ще й Франції . Претендувати на ще одну корону - Англії, і зробити собі такого ворога, як Єлизавета...

Читаючи книжку, як ця, думаю, як тільки й досі "ці політичні ігри" себе не вижили... Політика завжди була і є жорстокою, а політики і досі маніпулюють живими людьми...

About halfway: this book is so hard to process. Seeing how normalized the abuse was, how fear replaced safety, and control was mistaken for love - that is just so heartbreaking.

Especially painful to realize how that shaped what she later accepted as “better" relationships - those chapters about her at 18 and Joe at 32... Gosh, just painful to go over those chapters...

Parents like that should not have kids...

Starting to listen to the audiobook book today. I was always curious to read the very first published novel by Stephen King. And this time eventually came!

Just discovered that he actually was ready to throw away the pages, thinking people would not read this in the magazine, when his wife Tabitha literally "fished" those out and said "Nope, this matters. Finish it ".

I had no idea who Cher was befor listening to this book. I just loved her song "You haven't seen the last of me"...

She had such an eventful youth, and it's incredible to watch her becoming. Yesterday I watched a few episodes of Sunny and Cher show , and then her own Cher show. Interesting "dive" into the 70th, and to see what people liked that time.

I am not yet done yet, but I'll definitely be waiting for part 2

this one lands quietly but firmly:

don’t mistake
salt for sugar
if he wants to
be with you
he will
it’s that simple

What makes this deep is how little it tries.There’s no pleading, no metaphor overload -just truth stated plainly.Illustration does half the work: salt and sugar look the same,but they are not the same.Intention reveals itself not in words,but in actions.
Love without confusion, clarity without cruelty

I can't understand why some people say it's not poetry... What is poetry ? Poetry is language distilled to carry emotion, truth, and beauty - sometimes with rhythm and rhyme, sometimes without - but always with intention.

If there is depth, feelings and beauty and if it's there, I calm it poetry. And Rupi Kaur texts are so deep and beautiful

i'm hopelessly
a lover and
a dreamer and
that will be the
death of me

she was a rose
in the hands of those
who had no intention
of keeping her

🌸🌸🌸

you might not have been my first love
but you were the love that made
all the other loves
irrelevant

In the middle of Sonny years.
...
It’s heartbeaking because I can feel two truths at the same time: Her mom, Georgia Holt, had a genuinely hard, unstable life. And Cher was still very much left to raise herself emotionally.
What makes it especially sad is that it wasn’t cruelty - it was instability. Georgia was chasing survival, love, opportunity… but how could she abandon Cher so much...

Oh, Cher!
I am totally in love with her "You haven't seen the last of me". Interesting to listen to her journey.

It's hard to realize that there are Kids who’ve learned (over and over) that adults aren’t reliable, that love can be temporary, and that trusting people can hurt them... Easy to read, and hard to put the book aside, even when there are too many questions, and I'm not sure how I feel about the main characters. it's like reading about teenagers that had so many "adult" problems...

I know Jennette as Sam in the show my daughter watched. And now, listening to her journey, it would be hard to ever re-watch those series...

P.s.
so upsetting I will have to pause for now and wait, before my listening hours are available on Spotify again. 15 hours for books a month is nothing 🙈

I love mystery and was looking for a book to recommend to my 12 year old daughter. this came up as a good YA for an earlier audience.

So far, easy to read, pretty dynamic, full of young girls"drama".
The main character is 12.

“We prefer to do things comfortably"

“People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get. They’re well off; they’re safe; they’re never ill; they’re not afraid of death; they’re blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they’re plagued by no mothers or fathers"

"And if ever anything should go wrong, there’s soma"

“Science is dangerous.We have to keep it most carefully chained"

John’s death isn’t a victory for suffering or comfort - it’s the cost of a world that chose happiness over humanity...

Linda's room:
Death conditioning isn’t about accepting death, it’s about eliminating the emotional cost of caring that someone existed.

I can't stop thinking that The World State fears grief because grief creates attachment, depth, and independence -and those things make people unmanageable. People who are attached, reflective, recognize emotions, become impossible to control.

Is John "safe" because he is alone?

And when I thought it can't be worse... Here it is - another cruelty of the "perfect brave new world"... I just can't understand why they allowed John the Savage to live there!
He becomes a living contradiction the system doesn’t know what to do with. It's obvious that John is not brought in to belong. He is brought in to test, expose, and entertain. This is a great example of how their society "values" human lives..

Bizarre...
Those "new civilized" humans have no emotional experience at all... Whatever happens - they just eat drugs and call it a way to process things...

No reflection, no thoughts, no emotional closeness, no self awareness: orgy-porgy, "everyone belongs to everyone", coded behavior, forced understanding of things, nothing personal or real.

And at some point someone actually decided that this is a way to be??!

Interesting perspective on the relationship. I like stories of different couples and how the therapist navigates them to the right side.

This is totally insane... 🤯 So hard to go with the book, since cannot relate and all the time have to go back to the previous chapter. Just can't wrap my head around this 🤯🤯🤯

Omg, this is wild... When I figured that the factory they are describing is for... making humans, my mind exploded and I started to listen all over . First few pages and my eyes are opened wide and a thought "I hope something like this will never happens" 🙈