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emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0


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reflective medium-paced

4.0

An assortment of heartfelt essays about one’s mother: the good and the bad.  I think through these essays the authors will able to humanize their mothers and situation - especially the ones who grew up in abusive situations, they required taking on the perspective of their mother to write these essays.

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challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This was a great collection of stories compiled by authors that are well written and reflective. Anyone that has a good or bad relationship with their mother should read this. It’s not even about mother - child relationships, but the fragile way families can be. It was a great read and may reread in the future. 

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dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.75


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emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5


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emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

4.5

I was afraid that if i called her, she would talk and it would be too hard for me to love her after that.

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emotional reflective

3.0


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cady_sass's review against another edition

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4.0

This is a heavy read. As with any anthology or collection of essays with multiple authors, some things are going to resonate and others are not. I think there is genuinely something for everyone here, whether your relationship with your mother is good or great or toxic or non-existent. A lot of tough topics are handled very eloquently and it may be tough to get through at times but it’s a worthy read. I’d recommend this to most people, I think you’ll find something that sticks with you for a long time to come. I know I did. 

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challenging dark emotional slow-paced

3.5

What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About is a hard-hitting, (sometimes) harrowing set of essays written by a range of authors. I loved the ways in which it was so nuanced; even when some mothers inflicted harm, their children found ways to forgive. I read this with the knowledge that regardless of what pain people can inflict on their loved ones, the bond can still be so strong and well, relentless 😳 I found the essay by Nayomi Munaweera especially challenging 🥲 

All in all, difficult but definitely worth reading 👏🏼

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fast-paced

4.75

Oh, this was profound. All the stories were engaging and poignant. I only wish they were all longer! 

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