en-US Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:00:11 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Comment288719454 Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:00:11 -0700 /review/show/7398646376 Jackie's review of The Tell: A Memoir
by Amy Griffin

Amy grew up in Amarillo, Texas in the 70’s/80’s and never talked about a teenage pregnancy in the book. Im confused. Did we read the same book?! ]]> Review7429884008 Sun, 23 Mar 2025 23:06:54 -0700 /review/show/7429884008 Holly gave 5 stars to Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom (Hardcover) by Lucia Jang
An incredible story of a woman’s life in and escape from North Korea. The writing is a little choppy due to the translation, but the story is so compelling. The brutality and loss of humanity is unbelievable. ]]> Review7401638904 Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:49:58 -0700 /review/show/7401638904 Holly gave 5 stars to The Tell: A Memoir (Hardcover) by Amy Griffin
Wow, such a powerful memoir. I couldn’t put it down and read it in a day.

*contains sexual violence ]]> ReadStatus8896419927 Fri, 10 Jan 2025 07:19:38 -0800 /review/show/7198165800 Holly wants to read My Mother's Secret by J.L. Witterick
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]]> Comment285021912 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 14:29:33 -0800 /review/show/6951206289 Erin's review of The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
by Sharon McMahon

I think listening to the audio is the key to this one because she writes the same way she talks - like storytellling. I liked that the stories didn’t get into detail overload. Sometimes the historical books are WAY more than I ever wanted to know. I gave it to Izzy for Christmas, and I thinks he’s struggling with the hard copy as well. ]]> ReadStatus8837493330 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 14:21:36 -0800 /review/show/7153630284 Holly wants to read Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
]]> Review7050032757 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 13:01:09 -0800 /review/show/7050032757 Holly gave 5 stars to The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover) by Sharon McMahon
" Progress is usually born out of struggle. But struggle doesn't always mean progress, does it? What do we need to add to struggle to create progress? The answer is hope. Hope, which attorney and author Bryan Stevenson told me is not a feeling but an orientation of the spirit. Hope is a choice that we make each morning, and we do not have the luxury of hopelessness if we want to see progress."

"What will history remember with kindness? The leader with the most cunning tweets? The one with the most self-aggrandizing speeches and the biggest audiences? No, it is not the cynics who emerge the heroes, but the people who spent their lives in service to others. It's those that fight for justice for someone whose reflection they don't see in the mirror."

"America at her best is just. She is peaceful. She is good. And she is free. And it is us, the small and the mighty, who make America great.
Not again, but always." ]]> Review7122216948 Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:23:54 -0800 /review/show/7122216948 Holly gave 4 stars to Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries & Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy (Paperback) by Lindsay C. Gibson
Lindsay Gibson is amazing. Circled back to her books after listening to several podcasts she was on. ]]> Review7050032757 Thu, 26 Dec 2024 11:00:51 -0800 /review/show/7050032757 Holly gave 5 stars to The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover) by Sharon McMahon
" Progress is usually born out of struggle. But struggle doesn't always mean progress, does it? What do we need to add to struggle to create progress? The answer is hope. Hope, which attorney and author Bryan Stevenson told me is not a feeling but an orientation of the spirit. Hope is a choice that we make each morning, and we do not have the luxury of hopelessness if we want to see progress."

"What will history remember with kindness? The leader with the most cunning tweets? The one with the most self-aggrandizing speeches and the biggest audiences? No, it is not the cynics who emerge the heroes, but the people who spent their lives in service to others. It's those that fight for justice for someone whose reflection they don't see in the mirror."

"America at her best is just. She is peaceful. She is good. And she is free. And it is us, the small and the mighty, who make America great.
Not again, but always." ]]>