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reflective sad slow-paced

3.0


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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

2.5


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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

There are 15 essays in this anthology and I found almost all of them relatable.  The essays are written with a humility, honesty, and self reflection that are staggering. 

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dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.5

I really liked this. It made me reflect on my own relationship with my mom, and how to be okay with where it is. The last essay in particular really hit home for me. I would love to see another volume of this with a few younger authors (more millennial or gen-z) because I sometimes found it hard to relate to the older authors. Overall, great read. 

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challenging dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

4.0

I hesitated to start 2022 with a post about a downer, but that’s not really what this book is. It contains immense pain - warnings for many mentions of suicidal ideation, substance use, and many kinds of abuse - but it also contains immense healing. Each person who contributed to this collection did hard healing work in order to be able to write about these estrangements and catastrophes. There’s also immense love and forgiveness in them. 
We put mothers on this pedestal… we make motherhood nearly compulsory but then dehumanize mothers so that if they’re not perfectly nurturing and perfectly selfless and perfectly content in motherhood, they’re monsters. I love the care many of these writers took to show understanding that their moms are just people, too. 
I don’t recommend this book generally but specifically: read only if you’re experienced holding strangers’ pain without harm to yourself. Four taters 🥔🥔🥔🥔/🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔

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challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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dark emotional medium-paced

5.0

AHHH IT WAS SO GOOD!!! These authors are amazing at conveying intense, complex feelings in a way I haven’t seen anywhere else. The way they can analyze relationships is AHHHH and I just want to read more like this!!! 10/10 would recommend (but it is kind of heavy at some points with some TWs)

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emotional reflective slow-paced

3.5

this was mixed, I thought that a few of these essays were shining stars and others not so much. overall a good collection.

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