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by Amy Griffin

Oh, Margaret, I disliked more than the ending! We agree, am important story, but I really didn’t care for the author’s self-presentation. And I don’t know anything about buddies inflating ratings, but once you’ve got Oprah behind you, you probably don’t need whole lotta help from anyone else! ]]> ReadStatus9294862775 Thu, 10 Apr 2025 17:00:12 -0700 /review/show/7415182809 Deborah started reading The Trouble Up North by Travis Mulhauser
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I’m not going to rate this one because I can’t figure out whether there’s a right way to assign stars to a memoir that recounts a troubling personal story, something terrible that happened to the author as a child 30 years earlier, by a person I don’t much care for as an adult. In her early 40s, Amy Griffin, highly successful in seemingly all aspects of her life, tries a new form of therapy and uncovers deeply hidden memories of her abuse by a trusted teacher in middle school. I feel for the suffering 12-year-old girl she was. But her account of the two years after her memories resurfaced spent trying to come to terms with this new knowledge and the light it shed on her driven perfectionism in the decades since the abuse left me feeling a little—what?—creeped-out by her profound narcissism, of which she seems entirely unaware. And did I mention shallow? And the book was so repetitive. It felt like there was a lot of padding to turn this into something book-length. Hmmmm� I’m being very uncharitable about this account of someone’s trauma, aren’t I? And yet I am aware of my shortcomings, I think. Ms. Griffin could use a smidge of that. Just sayin�. ]]> Review7152136430 Tue, 08 Apr 2025 09:04:02 -0700 /review/show/7152136430 Deborah gave 3 stars to The Ghosts of Rome (Rome Escape Line, #2) by Joseph O'Connor
3.5 stars

The second novel in a planned trilogy set during the Second World War about a real-life resistance network operating in great secrecy out of the Vatican in Nazi-occupied Rome. Fascinating stuff about the disparate group made up of a rogue Monsignor operating under the radar of his superiors, an Italian countess, the wife and daughter of the Irish ambassador to the Vatican, a cockney chauffeur, many working class locals, etc. etc. I couldn’t help but put myself in their place and know I’d have fallen short, entirely absent the grit and courage they required daily tp put their lives very much on the line to save hundreds of downed pilots, paratroopers and escaped prisoners of war. ]]> ReadStatus9278745304 Sun, 06 Apr 2025 13:55:52 -0700 /review/show/7467818188 Deborah is currently reading Boy by Nicole Galland
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