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Karen’s 2024 Year in Books
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Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived
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The dirty work of personal growth
Not a pretty picture. A bedroom prepped for A/C installation.Thanks for reading GROWTH: Make it Personal! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
Decades ago, we built an addition on our first home, a three-bedroom, one-bath Dutch colonial. Our only child, Matthew, was four, and before we had a second child, I wanted a second bathroom.
Early in the construction process, my
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Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice
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| As I read this compelling story, I thought often of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Like the Joads family, this book’s protagonist, Red, sets out in a harsh environment in search of belonging and fulfillment. Red’s is a spiritual quest in a wor ...more | |
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| I wish I didn't relate to the stories and research in this book, but I do, especially Chapter 2: "Nice girls finish last." Yet the author doesn't paint a picture of women as victims. Even those patients who suffered from serious illnesses and incompe ...more | |
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| Eileen Kelly creates complex, authentic characters who put one foot in front of the other like we all do to get by. Then Kelly skillfully begins to peel back our blinders, revealing the true nature of several characters that will send shivers up your ...more | |
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| A fascinating look at the treasured friendships of a girl and then young woman who had not much else going for her. If, like me, you wonder how to be a good friend, these raw, deeply personal, and sometimes frightening essays will show you it is poss ...more | |
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The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared
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| As a young wife, Casey Mulligan Walsh's only sibling, her brother, suffers a heart attack at age 27 and dies. Walsh, orphaned since age 12, thinks, “I’m running out of loved ones.” As a young mother, when Walsh believes she has created the family she ...more | |
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“Write what you know.”
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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