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Once more for the classroom. It hits every time.

That feeling when … you pick up a Pulitzer Prize winner and you are hooked.

“If you take away one truth, the one thing in this book I know with certainty, let it be this: your life is a good gift from a loving God, even when subjectively it doesn’t feel good or like a gift, and even when you doubt that God is loving. Please get out of bed anyway.”

“We all suffer silent crises, carrying burdens that are incommunicable to those closest to us and occasionally even opaque to ourselves. Some suffer from diagnosed mental illnesses, some from undiagnosed, and some from mental suffering that has no medical categorization yet is no less real and terrible and hard. But your existence is good.”

Ok - I’m 37% of the way through and thinking, “These books are SO popular, there must be more to them than I am currently experiencing. Right? RIGHT?!”
Not sure I have the will to carry on.

Utterly delightful so far. But the library made me give it back! Marking the page number to remember…

Book club 2025!

Europe on $5 a day in the 1970s?! 😫

A delightful book to read 5 pages at a time in the early morning hours.

“Turns out it’s quite a thing growing another person. Who knew? …
Time started to bend. I was carrying the future inside me. I would learn that I was also carrying the eggs, already within my baby’s womb, that could go on to partly form my potential grandchildren. My future grandchildren were in some way inside me, just as part of me spent time in the womb of my grandmother … Time bends.”

Really interesting so far! Recommended by two friends as “the best parenting book”

Book club!

“When a flame is lit, move toward it.”

I had forgotten how delightful a cozy mystery audiobook is when you’re nursing a cold.

What exactly are you up to, Mr. Diaz?

I devoured Book 1 in an afternoon! Hopeful for the rest of it.

I’ve been slowly reading an entry or two at a time and delighted by it.

Round 2 for Book Club, and I’m delighted.

“There is no explaining this simple truth about life: you will forget much of it. The painful things you were certain you’d never be able to let go? Now you’re not entirely sure when they happened, while the thrilling parts, the heart-stopping joys, splintered and scattered and became something else. Memories are then replaced by different joys and larger sorrows”