What are you reading in 2023?

[pinkytoe]

A Sense of Wonder by Rachel Carson. Also stumbling through Hang the Moon by Jeanette Walls (Glass Castle).

[Simplemind]

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This was a great read. The first time in awhile where I was making time every day to sit down and grab it.

[JaneV2.0]

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This was a great read. The first time in awhile where I was making time every day to sit down and grab it.

I read his My Own Story and finished it. Rare lately.

[rosarugosa]

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This was a great read. The first time in awhile where I was making time every day to sit down and grab it.

I've added this one to my list. I really loved Cutting for Stone.

[Tybee]

It's All Too Much by Peter Walsh, which is an interesting organizational book.

[iris lilies]

Well, I had to abandon yet another novel. I was 200 pages plus into the 435 page I have some questions for you by Rebecca MAKKAI. It is billed as a literary thriller. It’s neither literary nor thriller. And that’s fine, because I dont read thrillers much. A murder serves as the plot device for “here’s what happened to me at prep school, looking back.”

Such a slog. Not recommended.

[iris lilies]

Finally, I read a funny little novel that I enjoyed. It’s only 100 pages., I listened to the audiobook version. Enjoyed it very much, and I do not like audiobooks.


Comfort me with apples by Catherine Valente. Audiobook version.

if you try it, I highly recommend not reading any reviews and going into it cold. It’s an other worldly tale that is intriguing, and as it reveals itself, you’ll know it’s familiar tale.

[iris lilies]

I finished The Unexpected Mother by Susan Ring. It is a true story about the author’s experiences as a surrogate mother while living in California.

Her first surrogate experience was for a couple she didn’t especially like, but that experience went smoothly. When the baby was six months old they wanted her to start another pregnancy for them, this time, twins. Her instinct told her these were not nice people, but she went ahead and did it. It all went wrong.

First thing to go wrong: against doctors recommendations they had him implant three embryos, thinking that it would be unlikely three would survive. Three DID survive. She had to have a “selective reduction “i.e. abortion at 14 weeks, and that experience haunted her.

And then much to her horror at around 30 weeks, the couple told her they didn’t want the babies after all. They were getting a divorce. The woman in the pair was not biologically involved. The father had donated and his sperm, so the twins were legally his.

The father was found to be bipolar and unable to take care of himself, and he did not want the children then, but after they were born, he had the expectation that eventually he would get them. He wanted them to go into the care of child protective services. These two babies were perfectly healthy.

The Surrogate mother was horrified by this and court actions took place. Long story short, she got full legal rights to the twins. She chose a nice young couple to be their parents, and at three months of age the twins left her home to live with their permanent parents.

this book showed one way out of many that surrogacy can go wrong. However, the author went on to be a surrogate parent at least three more times. she liked being pregnant and bringing life into being.

[Yppej]

The Other Mother a novel about a young man finding out the truth about his early life

Say Anarcha nonfiction about a slave woman experimented upon by the "father of modern gynecology"

[Tradd]

Little Heathens - author tells her story of growing up on an Iowa farm during the Depression. Pretty entertaining and also informative on how resourceful that generation was.

Thanks for the recommendation. Just got the ebook from my library.