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A review by lydialovestoread
You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith
5.0
It’s a poet’s memoir. As someone who consumes a lot of memoirs it was frustrating at times not to get her “tell-all”. It’s her “tell most”.
As someone who craves it all I want to know who else she fell in love with and how she didn’t see the signs before, but what she tells is more beautiful. More mature.
She gets divorced. She discovers he’s cheating. She falls into deep despair and has to figure out how to Mom alone. How to fight a legal case against a lawyer and how to find something beautiful in the midst of tragic darkness.
I resonated with so much of what she wrote and in the end am inspire by what she left unsaid.
Beautiful. Different. Poetic. I should have savored it but devoured it instead. I’ll hang onto this one to read again! ❤️
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I read this a second time with a book club and savored it. We talked about relationships and the contract of marriage. We discussed the division of labor within relationships and how to find ourselves after loss. We discussed the pandemic, whom is the highest earner in the family and how that correlates to domestic chores. And we talked a lot about the absences that we ignore for the sake of peace.
This book is written for many but it resonated deeply with a white, middle-aged book club of mostly mothers.
I’d still give it a 5 star review.
As someone who craves it all I want to know who else she fell in love with and how she didn’t see the signs before, but what she tells is more beautiful. More mature.
She gets divorced. She discovers he’s cheating. She falls into deep despair and has to figure out how to Mom alone. How to fight a legal case against a lawyer and how to find something beautiful in the midst of tragic darkness.
I resonated with so much of what she wrote and in the end am inspire by what she left unsaid.
Beautiful. Different. Poetic. I should have savored it but devoured it instead. I’ll hang onto this one to read again! ❤️
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I read this a second time with a book club and savored it. We talked about relationships and the contract of marriage. We discussed the division of labor within relationships and how to find ourselves after loss. We discussed the pandemic, whom is the highest earner in the family and how that correlates to domestic chores. And we talked a lot about the absences that we ignore for the sake of peace.
This book is written for many but it resonated deeply with a white, middle-aged book club of mostly mothers.
I’d still give it a 5 star review.