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Audio. Lost interest at 3 hours, pick up later

Very intriguing- a couple wins the lottery. They have kids and friends and relationships change.

Reading. The first parts of the book were so good. Part 3 seemed to veer a little and not be quite so believable.

She came out as gay and then her eyes brightened when I told her I was bisexual
Ok.

This is the craziest, saddest book ever! It’s like a car wreck you can’t look way from. But, I can’t leave Fransisco Day behind! She’s a spoiled and beautiful socialite in London, loses her mother and inherits a mountain of debt, she comes to America on the promise of a full career only to find it’s not what she’s been promised. She takes off and runs into Daly the biggest hottest jerk ever!

Read. Great writing. A style that I like. A very entwining story. Megs mother leaves her, she’s in an orphanage and is mistreated, is adopted by a family with a nice father but lots of drama.
Francis and Birdie are sisters from a poor family. Frances marries rich, Birdie goes to ask for money. Her husband family is losing everything. They try to find ways to make money and a whole lot of shenanigans ensue.

Tom drowns himself

Lucille tells tom he has plagiarized Fitzgerald. Grandma asks Meg to report on drinking in the house. Birdie loves Jack but tells h8m she can’t have kids. See the sheriff and says they have a dance hall.

They’re starting a dance club. Birdie is dating .jack, a married man. Mrs Tart and Frances go off looking for .rory

Mrs. Garnett hates Meg because Charlie the mother had an affair with Mrs. Garnet husband. She had Charlie arrested Charlie used to write letters to the husband helping he’d leave his wife to marry her and adopt me Mrs. Garnett must’ve seen the letters. Mrs. tart had to sell all her furniture bonus turned off.

Meg is the girl from the orphanage and gets adopted. Three days later her mother Charlie comes back to get her, she’d been in jail and hadn’t abandoned her daughter. Charlie lives with birdie and Frances and Mrs tart. In the house they had to sell every piece of furniture to try to catch up on the mortgage, Rory, the stinky husband left the. With bills and no electricity

Girl in orphanage is put into the old cringe Office to spend her days and the head of the orphanage who doesn’t like children massage her head. Then Birdie comes to the orphanage to volunteer and paint the office.
Birdie also comes from home to see her sister to borrow money from her. The sister’s husband leaves her.

Reading. Has a prologue- eh

Reading. A good book to take in small snippets. Mull the thoughts around. I enjoy the references to Korean culture.

Reading. Beautiful prose and lyrical writing. A story of a woman in tragic circumstances finds herself working at a Flower Farm. It is led by a beautiful man named Jackson who has the gift of seeing people with past traumas carefully guiding them through the hurt to healing. Wonderful and tragic.

Reading. Lots of facts written by a journalist. Any story involving N Korea is heart wrenching

Audio. So good. Excellent narration! Good intriguing story. 2 podcasters. That’s all I can share at this point. Things keep coming to light.

Reading. This is a slow burn. But at halfway through I’m totally invested in the main characters. Matt’s writing can be so beautiful. “I was lucky I knew her well. And, the way I see it if you know someone well you know how they would think about things. You can talk to them forever because you know what they would say.”

Kristen will love!

This is so good! I love hearing about Elon‘s younger life and teenagers when he and his brother drove around the country in the crappy car. And when they slept in there studio apartment/office. He has worked hard to get where he is!!

Audio. Wow. A modern woman, influencer, sarcastically angry (this is where the naughty bits are), I can tell by the way she speaks that she grew up as a Christian (wonderful). The story goes backwards into her life from where the book started. And then, she is also in a very different story line. At this point I have no idea where this story is going. with very clever writing and the narrator is spot on!

Love this book but why put 2028 in front of 1989? I hate when authors or publishers do this! Ruins the book for me.

Read. A story of two guys that attempt to rape a girl, a coach at the school who stops them. The guys coming after the father. The boys break into the father’s house and c9me into the bedrooms, the son shoots them dead. There is a trial and the son takes off.
Then the next part is the father, seed the girl a prolific writer and son take off the find him. Miracles happen. Gas, walking on air. It’s cold.

Reading. A classic. Nervous.

Reading. So good!

Audio. If you’re a Darius or Hootie fan this is a great listen for you! He narrates his memoir which I always love. I was never a huge fan so I’m going to quit halfway through.

I don’t care for the narrator. I’m gonna try reading it.

Audio. Whoa. What a crazy story! Married for 50 years a husband does unspeakable things to his wife. I’ve sat on a lengthy jury so I know to what depths they tear apart everything. Must have been torture for this woman and her children. It’s a very very tough listen. The author narrates which is amazing. Horrible story.

I don’t bother, giving them the “ less gendered compliments, please” lecture. Ehhh