Here is my GoodReads Review: Rolling joints. Seriously? OK talk to text youāre a mess. I really enjoyed this book. When itās something so personal, who am I to review or critique? Instead I recommend you read and decide for yourself. Me? Iām always up for an entertaining story. This memoir is full of them.
So, …. there was no mention of rolling joints in the book but I said something that talk-to-text converted to that. I left ‘as is’ since I am easily amused. This book was a free Kindle selection of the month which means I got highlights. Being a little out of practice, I couldn’t use all of them. I’m much better with pen to paper in my common place book as a read a physical book, with pages to turn, that I can hold. Lemme just say that the acknowledgements at the end were off the chart with really good stuff. Sophie is very lucky to have good people in her life.
Here I’ll share a few (okay nine) quotes that really resonated with me, then I’ll let you go.
- If youāre riding in an RV with your grandparents who have kindly taken you on a trip to see the Four Corners, donāt make your seventy-one-year-old grandpa sleep on the floorāunless he grabs your knee and jokes, āThis is how a horse bites an apple.ā Then itās fair game.
- If you look past the homophobia, bigotry, snakes, pushy moms, and Joel Osteenāstyle, veneer-capped smiles, Baptist churches are the best.
- Mass was somber, and the reverends spent a lot of time swinging scented, …
- It was a perfect illustration of my relationship with my mom .Ā .Ā . closeāway too closeāand codependent as hell.
- What I really wanted to say was, Let your freak flag fly, weirdos!
- I trusted my mom yet again, who was the Old Mill grits of the South. (That means queen bee.)
- You canāt text someone an insane number of times to get them to talk back to you. That would mean a restraining order.
- Her mom – āYou were so frenzied. I wanted to help, but at times I felt helpless.ā Sophie – āIām happy I went through everything. I think it all timed out exactly as it shouldāve,ā I assured her.
- āThink of the thing that you donāt want us to know about you and then tell us all about it.ā
The bolded quote – lucky #7, when I needed to see it, boom there it was in print!! Some of you may remember my angst ridden, worry posts of late where I mention I was afraid of getting in trouble? Well persistence paid off. Kinda, sorta, maybe? I re-read some of the texts (and emails) I sent in search of … whoa buddy, I want a do-over. Oops sorry. I was losing it. All is better now, kinda, sorta, maybe?
As always, more to come.