September Book Talk
Updated: Sep 27
September is when we start to feel Fall creeping around the corner. We start to anticipate "Sweater weather" and cooler nights. The kids are back to school, routines are back into place, fall sports are in full bloom. I love Fall!!! What better thing to do in the Fall than to curl up with a good book?
I started September off with another different pick. I listened to this one. I'm not even quite sure I picked it. But here we go....
Half His Age
By Jennette McCurdy
Fiction 9/1/ - 9/8/2026 288 pages
This book rally bothered me. Maybe because, I am so opposite of this this kind of thinking now. And maybe I used to think a little like the mother. That I hated that mind set. Hearing it and how sick it sounds and how damaging it is not only to yourself but to those around you. It was eye opening to what goes on inside the head of some women/girls who have so little self confidence and feel their life isn't fullfilled without a man. And how obsession can take over your brain. And just how sick it is.
That an how a mother's actions and words can frame the future of her daughter. I believe, Waldo's issues stemmed from the odeling of her mother. And yet, her mother didn't know any better and wasdoing the best she could as well.
It frustrated me how little her mother was involved in her life. Just leaving her frozen dinners and just by texts. I also believe, Mr. Corgi was just a very weak man, who probably didn't want to have an affair. But found himself in a very tempting situation that got out of control. And eventually led him to be becoming obsessed himself. He knew it was wrong, but just like an addict, you keep making it ok in your head.
I just wanted to reach through my head phones and strangle the mother and say, you don't need that stupid Tony and Waldo deserves a better mother!!!! So yes!! Frustrating. I think my struggle to get to independence really came out in this book, and never wanting to feel that I need to have a man again in my life.
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lions
By Beth Brower.
Historical Fiction - 107 pages
I really struggled to listen to this book. I think it might have been better if I would have read it in the physical book, instead of listened to it. I typically like these sort of books.
Its a journal format of Emma Lion back in the late 1800's. She is a bit of a progressive young lady for that time. She is coming back to her home town. She is expecting to take her family home over and finances over (that her cousin was suppose to be taking care of while she was away at University). Only to find out that he wasted most of it. Between the struggles between being a woman in these times and a single woman and being taken seriously when it came to finanaces - She constantly was hitting a wall.
I would like to continue to read the rest of the journals - however, read them, not listen to them.
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