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4.5 AVERAGE
4.5 AVERAGE
"How did I let this happen? How did I become a woman? I don’t know the answer but I know the solution. I know what I’ll do to fix this. Tomorrow there won’t be any 2% milk or honeycomb or smart onces. I've been slacking and the slacking needs to stop. I need to get back to anorexia. I need to be a kid again."
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment
Wow. A very well written journey into the authors experience with trauma, self-discovery, and healing. The story was raw, emotional, and progressed in a beautiful way through each chapter.
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I get it your life sucked. This reads like a therapy session where the patient has been ordered to write exactly what happened and what their child self thought at that moment without adding a single new thought or insight to it. Which works… for maybe one chapter. I wasn’t expecting anything like a feel good book at all, but just reading about a mother who was very clearly mentally struggling and expressing that in an abusive way to her husband and children, who have no clue how to deal with it except to weather the storm also isn’t exactly nice to read. Especially because it started to feel like it’s all only building up to saying “I’m glad my mom died” with some context. That doesn’t need a whole book. More people have complicated relationships with their parents, it’s not that unrelatable. I’m sad this book wasn’t in anyway insightful as I would’ve hoped, but very happy to put this book behind me.
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reflective
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