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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
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For the amount of stories I've heard and read about single motherhood and poverty, along with what I experienced with my own mom growing up, I can't decide if it's more heartbreaking that this story had almost nothing new to me (i.e. the experiences are so common) or that I felt myself leaning more judgemental to something about this one. That's the point, though: shame.
Shame crashed through this book. It prevented Land from finding and using resources, it tore apart relationships, and it created a void where she made decisions for which she was judged, but at least they were HER decisions. Class distinctions continue in part because 'higher-tier' classes learn how to judge and 'lower-tier' learn how to carry that burden.
This had some good perspectives and insights, but also veered toward a quite frustrating narrator, even with my fiercest efforts to practice empathy.
Shame crashed through this book. It prevented Land from finding and using resources, it tore apart relationships, and it created a void where she made decisions for which she was judged, but at least they were HER decisions. Class distinctions continue in part because 'higher-tier' classes learn how to judge and 'lower-tier' learn how to carry that burden.
This had some good perspectives and insights, but also veered toward a quite frustrating narrator, even with my fiercest efforts to practice empathy.
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- Leaving this book unrated -
I go back and forth deciding whether or not I want to rate memoirs because is it really fair to rate someone’s true story? So sometimes I go off of how I feel afterwards, how much I’ve learned or how it was written. This one is one I don’t want to rate. However I really liked this book, and I look forward to reading Maid in the future.
I go back and forth deciding whether or not I want to rate memoirs because is it really fair to rate someone’s true story? So sometimes I go off of how I feel afterwards, how much I’ve learned or how it was written. This one is one I don’t want to rate. However I really liked this book, and I look forward to reading Maid in the future.
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challenging
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