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Lara’s 2022 Year in Books
Take a look at Lara’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Lara Lillibridge
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March 2017
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Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home
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2018
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5 editions
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Mama, Mama, Only Mama: A Single Mom on Parenting, Divorce, Dating, and Cooking, with Heavy Doses of Humor and Advice
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2019
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6 editions
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Feminine Rising: Voices of Power and Invisibility
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2019
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tall...ish: Pure Slush Vol. 11
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2016
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Lara’s Recent Updates
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Fredrik Backman
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Beartown (Beartown, #1)
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Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author)
“Never trust people who don’t have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.”
This is, in many ways, one of the most recurring themes throughout the whole Beartown book trilogy. People often ask me why I chose hockey, and not another sport, to write about, and the answer is this: Hockey demands everything. It’s so hard to do, it’s so incredibly time consuming, and you can’t do it alone. So if you don’t love it beyond all reason to begin with…forget it. Go do something easier, less demanding. If you want to play hockey it’s BECAUSE it is hard. It requires love, all of it. And love makes you sensitive and easily offended. I did my best to explain throughout the book
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"Powerful graphic memoir!!!
The author and his family spent time in two different internment camps during WWII. It was informative and emotionally gripping. Many thanks to Kim!!!! My friend and book sorcerer 💕 " |
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"This is the third novel I’ve read by Lynda Cohen Loigman. ….
“The Two-Family House” and “The Wartime Sisters”…. I enjoy Lynda’s books. She writes the type of books where I want to snuggle up in my blanket…cozy-up ….and join the family cast of characte" Read more of this review » |
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Lara Lillibridge
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Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life
by Delia Ephron (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Best Memoir & Autobiography |
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Lara Lillibridge
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Rachel's review
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On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World:
"Leaning hard into High Holiday themed reading, and this one did not disappoint!
The topic of this book dives into the true meaning of repentance. Ruttenberg uses quotes from seminal works of famed medieval sage, Moses Maimonides, to bolster up the Jew" Read more of this review » |
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“The problem with having a family made up of friends is that once they decided to leave, you didn’t run into them at weddings and funerals. Once they left, you never saw them again.”
― Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home
― Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home
“It seems like there is no way to just write your story without becoming someone's poster child. You are not just your own voice, your own history--rather you carry the expectations of both extremes.”
― Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home
― Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.”
― Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
― Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”
― Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
― Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
― Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.”
― Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
― Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.”
― Anne of Windy Poplars
― Anne of Windy Poplars
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