I grabbed this audiobook from the library after internet algorithms kept pushing it at me. I knew nothing about it, and thought with the title and the cover photo that it might be humor-centric self help. After listening to it, I might have to re-evaluate some life choices to see why amazon thinks this is for me. It starts off earnestly, as a lot of mommy-blog type advice does, but even in the introduction, she gets self-righteous and talks about the contempt she has for […]
Biography/Memoir
Triumphant may be an understatement
The Hiding Place, originally published in 1984 and rereleased more recently as an audiobook, kept me hooked for the whole 10 hour run-time. It definitely put the “difficult” activities I was performing while listening (taping and painting a bedroom) into perspective. “Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.” Corrie ten Boom spent the first 50 years of her life pleasantly and quietly. Her father’s family owned a watch business in Haarlem, and she worked alongside him repairing […]
I’ve Finally Been Educated
I finally got around to reading the most praised book of 2018. It is brutal. I was prepared for the religious fanaticism, lack of education, and fear of government and doctors. I was not prepared for the amount of abuse, accidents, injuries, mental illness, and cruelty. I struggled through those difficult parts and gained an appreciation for the normal family I was raised in and raised my own daughter in. I guess the critics are right, overall a good read, but not really my cup […]
Everybody effing read this.
“Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose […]