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Nevertheless: A Memoir
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Drawing on his characteristic charisma, intelligence, and honesty, Alec Baldwin—one of the most...
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Neon's Nerd Nexus (360 KP) rated Triple Frontier (2019) in Movies
May 13, 2019
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May 13, 2019
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Neon's Nerd Nexus (360 KP) rated Creed II (2018) in Movies
May 13, 2019
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Neon's Nerd Nexus (360 KP) rated Searching (2018) in Movies
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Need to Feel Your Love by Sheer Mag
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A tear in the firmament. Beyond the noxious haze of our national nightmare - as structures of...
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Moving Stretch: Work Your Fascia to Free Your Body
Book
Moving Stretch is an effective, powerful and fun way of freeing the body from hunching, restriction...
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Herald
Book
Eighteen-year-old Larin Thompson was a product of abuse and neglect, thinking her life couldn’t...
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ClareR (5642 KP) rated Call Me Mummy in Books
Feb 19, 2021
Mummy abducts five year old Tonya from a supermarket when her mother, Kim, is preoccupied on er phone. Kim, in Mummy’s eyes is not the epitome of outstanding motherhood. In fact to Mummy, she’s the exact opposite: poor, working class, eternally pregnant, children from different fathers - common. So in Mummy’s mind, she’s rescuing Tonya from a life of want and neglect.
Except there are two sides to this story. Whilst Kim may have had a terrible upbringing and a bad start in life, she loves her daughter fiercely and in the months that follow, the loss of her daughter nearly breaks her.
To be honest, Mummy is hardly a leading example of motherhood. She’s mentally unstable, has also had a devastating childhood and drinks to excess. Not the best idea when you hardly eat anything.
Interspersed with short chapters alternating between Mummy and Kim, are the glimpses into the murky world of social media, where the terrible judgements would be terrible for Kim to read - if she read them, that is. But Kim takes a rather defensive view of herself and her family. She won’t play nice to the media or her community. But we as the reader get to see what’s going on in Kim’s head, and frankly, it broke my heart. Prepare yourself for that, by the way, because this book will have you swinging manically between heartbreak (fro Kim and Tonya) and murderous rage (for Mummy).
I’m not going to say any more. You’ll just have to read this book. I loved it, and the ending was perfect - my favourite kind of ending, in fact!
Thanks to Pigeonhole for serialising this, and so much thanks to Tina Baker for joining in with her comments and interactions with us Pigeonholers in the margins! I think I’m safe in saying that we all had the best time reading this!
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Luciferian Towers by Godspeed You Black Emperor
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Luciferian Towers is a heavyweight 180gram audiophile pressing from Optimal (Germany) and comes in a...
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