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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
I think this is one that is better to read instead of listen to via audiobook.
If there were 10 stars, I would have given it 10! What a great memoir!! Loved everything about it- and it brought back memories of the same situation w/ my family! Leave the mess for the kids... that's where the stories are!! EXCELLENT!
I am sorry but I can't bring myself to rate this much higher than it was an okay.....don't misunderstand the rating...I think Plum Johnson did an excellent job of writing a memoir about her parents passing and having to return to the family home to settle everything up and pack up a lifetime of belongings......I guess, for me, it just hit way too close to home....The details were just too fresh for me....My dad has been gone for 11 years, and my mum for 6...and yet, it is still too fresh....Dad the patient, easy one....Mum, who suffered from some form of dementia, so very difficult to deal with.... (we never did find out what form of dementia it was...my sisters and I live in fear of developing it ourselves, our husbands live in even greater fear that we will)....My dad and I parted on good terms....I was there and held his hand as he passed from this life to the next......Then five years later...I held Mum's hand as she left to be with Dad.......I have always felt guilt over Mum's death....Our 5 years together were filled with turbulence and tears....I, unlike Pum Johnston, have still not worked through my grief and guilt at her passing....And, based upon what happened and where things went with my sisters and I after dad and her passed away...I totally disagree with Ms. Johnston's idea of leaving things behind for your children to clean up....diaries, collection of newspaper clippings. old letters, ect.....That is what almost drove us all apart....Things will be different in my house...Our wills are made, the decisions of what will be done with us....and nothing that my children have to try to sort through and make sense of....I think that will be the blessing I will give to my 3 sons.....
Very slow moving memoir that wasn't as emotional as I'd hoped.
This is a wonderful memoir about being a mother & a daughter, dealing with aging parents and all the expectations wrapped up around being part of a wonderfully close & crazy family.
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
I loved it. I'm physically sad that it's over.
What a beautifully written Memoir. I was mourning the house at the end of this novel along with the author. I really wanted Plum to be able to hold onto the house as it was an extention of their family. I can't image how wonderful it would be to grow up in a house like the Point O'View. Her mother reminds me a lot of my late grandmother whom "came from a different generation" and "showed love differently." But also went though hardships that we today do not know of.
What a beautifully written Memoir. I was mourning the house at the end of this novel along with the author. I really wanted Plum to be able to hold onto the house as it was an extention of their family. I can't image how wonderful it would be to grow up in a house like the Point O'View. Her mother reminds me a lot of my late grandmother whom "came from a different generation" and "showed love differently." But also went though hardships that we today do not know of.
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
medium-paced
This is alright, but slow and meandery, and sometimes gets a little bogged down. I wanted to like it more than I did, probably.
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent