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I just finished the audiobook today. The actors who lend their voices to the narrative are amazing. Emmets voice is quiet and mostly principled. Billy's voice is exuberant! Wooleys voice is muffled, though there is a sweetness to him that comes through. Sally sounds a bit whiny though she is devoted to Billy. And Duchess sounds like a showman.
As for the ending there are many layers to the final part of the book. I found there to be some inconsistencies in the narrative - my opinion is that much of the book seems like it have taken place in the late 1950s, when travel investments (e.g., Interstate Road System) would have enabled a 20 hour drive from Nebraska to New York City. In 1954 much of that travel would have been on two lane roads until reaching Pennsylvania and New Jersey. That would have taken another day for sure.
In the end...time is a precious resource. So whether its a train schedule or a grandfather clock or Marcelines/Billy's/Wooley's watches time marches on. And in this book the last day in the book is the first day of summer! Thanks for the opportunity to share my thoughts...
Did anyone else notice?:There's a part in the book that says something about heroes telling their stories in the first person. I think there are 3 characters in this book who do that: Ulysses, Duchess, and Sally. What does that mean?
Jane enjoyed her family, faithfully attending the events of children and grandchildren. She belonged to several bridge clubs and loved the social interaction of the game. There was always a book or two she was working on as well as newspapers, magazines, and crossword puzzles.
Don and Jane loved to travel, both domestic and abroad. In later years they were involved in RV life, belonging to both local, state, and national organizations as well as the local car club. She loved University of Nebraska football and volleyball and attended those events.
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What it's about: Baseball player Gavin Scott's marriage is on the rocks. His wife and mother of his two daughters has kicked him out and asked for a divorce. But Gavin is desperate to make things work. He's willing to do anything, and a group of Nashville's "most alpha" men have promised to help him. He has no idea that their secret society is actually a book club and that "helping him" means making him read romance novels and using their lessons to fix his marriage.
Rowan Cassidy is a mistress at a BDSM club, who breaks the No. 1 rule: she falls hard for one of her clients. The problem is, he wants to be dominant too, and things get hot, yet dicey. Passions and dark turns intertwine in this quick, sizzling read.
Sense and Sensibility is the first Jane Austen book I read. Emma Thompson and Hugh Grant were going to star in a brand new movie and all my friends were excited by it. I read the story and that got me started on slowly reading through the different Jane Austen books and talking with my friends. Fast forward, and I was sitting there planning out our high school literature, and I decide freshman year was the perfect time for our Sense and Sensibility book club, and it was our last book and a movie night for that year.
After reading the book, and thinking about our history course this year, I realized it would have made so much more sense to wait and read this book this year as we just covered the Romantics and the Age of Enlightenment. Comparing the two sisters and how they embody those beliefs.
When Martin and his wife Helen, head of local theater group The Fairway Players and owners of a posh golf club, announce that their granddaughter Poppy has a brain tumor. Their friends, colleagues, and neighbors rally around them.
It's truly amazing the posts that have come in sharing these incredible and painful stories. It was an interesting experience writing this book and learning about how much work there is to do for others to understand this disorder especially when it hits the court system.
I cannot wait to read more of your book as your article is so spot-on, concise, and accurately depicts the shock, pain and awe these types of people can cause. I appreciate your thoroughness and educating others. Thank you thank you thank you! I used to become frustrated trying to explain to others bc it seems so fantastical and exaggerated.
This as all the posts is such a sad story. It reminds me of a story of someone I interviewed for the book. He said, " My ex asked me for a plate. I got the plate and put it in front of her and she said, 'Oh, that's not where I wanted it.' " He went on to say that she looks for people and situations she can pounce on when she's in a bad mood. This is called projection.
Besides his image, the only other thing that gets a narcissist to react is his pocket book. Every legal move I now make costs me little, but costs him tons. Get a narcissist to pay and he/she will run the other way. My sympathy and best wishes to you all. This is truly one of the hardest and loneliest fights to fight, with no end in sight. I feel the pain, but hold onto the light. You have integrity, empathy and decency, and no one can't take that away from you!
Everything I've read says there's nothing I can do about this. My lawyer says we can spend a lot of money trying to fight my ex but that likely not much will change. Will this book give me advice on what to do legally?
I could never have done it without the couple dozen books on this topic. Find these books, read them, and learn more about your sociopath's (a narcissist) mind than he/she knows about it themselves. It can be done. It was the hardest thing I have ever experienced - breaking free of the most severe type os narcissist - a psychopath/sociopath. Google the terms and learn as if your life depended on it. Because it does!
I found this book at my local library several months ago and I can truly say it is a Godsend. I divorced a narcissist a year ago. We were married for 20 years. At the end of the marriage I was physically ill. He said he was done with me and moved in with my best friend. I filed for divorce the next day and it has been hell ever since...but it was hell before, I just was in complete denial.
Now I see him for who he is and I am doing my best to help my kids through the emotional abuse he shovels on to them. The gift in all of this is that I am getting healthy and strong and I am a better mother than I ever have been. This book has been a super guide on how to help your children and how to let things go that you can't fix. I am coming to terms with the fact that my kids will never have the dad I dreamed they would have. But, they did get one hell of a mother, so I can be happy about that!
Hi Dianna, have you read my first book? "Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers"? It has a lot of recovery work in it. I'm glad to hear you have worked on having strong boundaries! A real key, eh?
When I did interviews for this book, I was stunned by the cost of these divorces. There has to be a better way which is why I discuss court reform and a pilot project in the book. One of the judges I interviewed said she often tells the parties in court that their kids won't go to college but their attorney's kids will. Nothing against attorneys being paid, but the process of these high conflict divorces needs a better way to make it more affordable.
I am living the same life. My ex husband was charming and emotionally seductive in the beginning. After 35 years of marriage, he ironically walked out only to desperately try to return. I have a huge level of guilt for remaining in the destructive relationship. Life was hard on my children. It was exhaustive protecting them from their fathers failure as a dad. I overcompensated and made excuses for him. Our lives and their childhood revolved around his physical and emotional illnesses. My ex husband was verbally and emotionally abusive in public and physically abusive in private. His psychiatrist told me that I was an unforgiving person if I did not stay to support him. He said he was one pill away from finding the correct chemical help that John needed and I was a bad person if I left. Thank you for this book and releasing me from responsibility.
For those dealing with narcissistic parents, please take a look at my first book "Will I Ever Be Good Enough?" It has a recovery program in it. Take the healing inside! Recovery is possible and there is hope.
Dr McBride book "will I ever be enough" deals with a narcissistic parent especially the mother. It helped me understand the relationship with my mother, I won a college award for journalism on my personal experience. My career counselor was an alumni with Dr. McBride and also suffered from a narcissistic parent 2ff7e9595c
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