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A quirky memoir by Diane Keaton about her life, her mother, and their relationship. Dorothy Hall kept journals--lots and lots of journals--in which she recorded her thoughts and feelings about her life, her marriage, her children, her extended family, and, most of all, about changes and frustrations that she experienced. Diane used those journals, as well as telling wonderful stories about her own life, to reflect on the everlasting bond--good, bad, or indifferent--that exists between mothers an
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This is mostly a remembrance by Diane Keaton of her mother who died a few years before after a bout with Alzheimer's. Keaton's mom had years worth of journals, a tradition that Keaton carries on. This book is a merging of her mother's journaling with Diane's about a same situation sprinkled with a hefty dose of recollection. A different take from the usual memoir, but I think Diane Keaton is a different take.
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