en-US Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:54:49 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Review7519231071 Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:54:49 -0700 /review/show/7519231071 Gizzard gave 3 stars to But How Are You, Really (Hardcover) by Ella Dawson
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I'm surprised I have an overall positive impression. A lot of the storyline felt too young to me. I was also pretty triggered by the emotional and verbal abuse. I know people found the fmc thoughts and actions annoying, but abusers work super hard to get you to make you believe you aren't worth squat. And the abusers believe it. And hoo boy does it piss them off when you come out on the other side and you walk away with love they tried to make sure you don't have.

I haven't seen too many authors realistically showing how people recreate the abuse from family of origin. ]]> Review7489353584 Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:50:12 -0700 /review/show/7489353584 Gizzard gave 4 stars to Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad (Paperback) by Damilare Kuku
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]]> Review7489091424 Mon, 14 Apr 2025 17:00:20 -0700 /review/show/7489091424 Gizzard gave 2 stars to Say You'll Remember Me (Say You'll Remember Me, #1) by Abby Jimenez
As an almost retired person, please put me in a care facility if I'm like this. Yes, the mother is a person deserving of love and care, but this just feels like unnecessary martyrdom. They can't properly care for her, and tbh, she won't know.

No one should have to live like this family. When are we going to rebel against the oligarchs? We pay so much for health care so the owners and CEOs of healthcare providers and insurers can get richer and richer. We get almost nothing but bankruptcy back. It doesn't have to be this way.

The angst of being apart got tedious in this book. It was too repetitive and nothing happens for about a third of this book. ]]> Comment289319150 Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:07:01 -0700 /review/show/7428003772 CatReader's review of Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
by John Green

Interesting that we can take different things from a book. Yes, he blames big pharma AND poverty, AND the inequity in our health care as well as crowding, availability and ability to get to treatment. Also, so much more including how the rich treat poor people. This isn't just a big pharma rant. ]]> Review7476794591 Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:51:34 -0700 /review/show/7476794591 Gizzard gave 5 stars to Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover) by John Green
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]]> Review7457991447 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 18:43:34 -0700 /review/show/7457991447 Gizzard gave 4 stars to The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom (Hardcover) by Shari Franke
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My reaction is to some of the reviews - she shows ruby abusing her on almost every page. Hitting, pinching, smacking, temper tantrums. Getting punished for showing emotions. Being told over and over she isn't worth being nice to. And that's just the start

I'm honestly scared for some of y'all's kids. ]]> Review7455075519 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:08:29 -0700 /review/show/7455075519 Gizzard gave 3 stars to Kills Well with Others (Killers of a Certain Age, #2) by Deanna Raybourn
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]]> Review7446608298 Sat, 29 Mar 2025 22:21:31 -0700 /review/show/7446608298 Gizzard gave 3 stars to Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me (Hardcover) by Glory Edim
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Loved the author. The book, though, was more like a series of essays with bits and pieces of time missing. The framing around books that she had read was much stronger and some chapters than in others. ]]> Review7429625387 Sun, 23 Mar 2025 20:33:26 -0700 /review/show/7429625387 Gizzard gave 4 stars to This Poison Heart (The Poison Heart, #1) by Kalynn Bayron
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Liked the characters, the magic, the story was decent. Really disliked that it didn't finish the story. I super dislike the trend of publishing a part of a book. You can make a series with each book being complete, even if there's an overarching story arc. ]]> Review7429572802 Sun, 23 Mar 2025 20:12:17 -0700 /review/show/7429572802 Gizzard gave 5 stars to Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover) by Sarah Wynn-Williams
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It lagged a little in a few parts, but gets an added star for having the balls to do this! And I admire Flatiron books too.

It was interesting, I learned a lot - I've never been a Facebook user, so I didn't follow their evilness. It was entertaining in a jaw dropping way.

I'm always amused by people slamming memoirs because the author didn't do what they wanted. Keyboard warriors who would be so morally strong, 🥱 I can enjoy the memoir without the author having a full moral reckoning.

I saw one Facebook ex employee trying to defend Facebook and especially Joel (who the defender shared political and moral leanings.) She starts by saying she never saw him sexually harass anyone - well ok then, I'm sure it never happened 🙄 thanks for torching your credibility up front. And she didn't refute anything of substance. ]]>