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May 02, 2021
Colleen Chi-Girl
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This is a stunning and important novel. There isn’t enough to say how well written, heartbreaking, and eye opening this is. It’s really so well done.
A family of 5 boys - until there were only 4. Or were there 5!? Get ready for an emotionally spun story that takes you into the lives of this family told through the POV of the mother, as well as Claude/Poppy. And how Claude, the baby, goes through his/her life in a way that you want to cradles the whole family.
More Love and Compassion.
Less Judge ...more
A family of 5 boys - until there were only 4. Or were there 5!? Get ready for an emotionally spun story that takes you into the lives of this family told through the POV of the mother, as well as Claude/Poppy. And how Claude, the baby, goes through his/her life in a way that you want to cradles the whole family.
More Love and Compassion.
Less Judge ...more
AUTHOR Frankel, Laurie
TITLE This is How It Always Is
DATE READ 09/03/19
RATING 4.5/B+
FIRST SENTENCE
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Fiction/2017/audio/11 hr
SERIES/STAND-ALONE #
CHALLENGE Good Reads 2019 Reading Goal 132/111;
GROUP READ Reese W & RCR
CHARACTERS The Walsh-Adams Family
TIME/PLACE 2017/WA
COMMENTS Very good! Rosie and Penn have 5 children -- the first 4 are boys and the last is born a boy but decides at a very young age he wants to identify as a girl. Interesting to see how th ...more
TITLE This is How It Always Is
DATE READ 09/03/19
RATING 4.5/B+
FIRST SENTENCE
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Fiction/2017/audio/11 hr
SERIES/STAND-ALONE #
CHALLENGE Good Reads 2019 Reading Goal 132/111;
GROUP READ Reese W & RCR
CHARACTERS The Walsh-Adams Family
TIME/PLACE 2017/WA
COMMENTS Very good! Rosie and Penn have 5 children -- the first 4 are boys and the last is born a boy but decides at a very young age he wants to identify as a girl. Interesting to see how th ...more
4.5 stars. It feels a little too neat at the end. I wish life worked that way, but it doesn’t. Then again, it is a fairy tale.
Jun 11, 2017
Jocelyn
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Nov 28, 2017
Ahsia
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Dec 27, 2017
Vesra (When She Reads)
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Mar 24, 2019
Colleen Chi-Girl
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