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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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My overall impression of this author's autobiographies and of this unending whine-fest is that the author felt cheated.
She did not win the adoption lottery pool.
She was, instead, adopted by lower income, fundamentalist older parents and she was ashamed of her home.
When she finally meets her birth mother, she finds fault with her too, and is angry at her for choosing to keep her biological brother over her. Most of her writing is one huge gripe after the other and any feelings of compassion I had were for the adoptive mother. I had to read this awful book because it was a Book Club selection. I thought: what a waste. This author can write, and what she chooses to write about are these paltry "pity me" books? Narcissistic, entitled... the list of negative adjectives for these books and the writer are legion.
Note: I chanced upon the second installment of her autobiography while browsing at my local library. I haphazardly opened it and came upon a passage where she ridicules her mother for calling her out on the lies in the first books, then starts in again at ripping her adoptive mother's character to shreds.
Just appalling!
She did not win the adoption lottery pool.
She was, instead, adopted by lower income, fundamentalist older parents and she was ashamed of her home.
When she finally meets her birth mother, she finds fault with her too, and is angry at her for choosing to keep her biological brother over her. Most of her writing is one huge gripe after the other and any feelings of compassion I had were for the adoptive mother. I had to read this awful book because it was a Book Club selection. I thought: what a waste. This author can write, and what she chooses to write about are these paltry "pity me" books? Narcissistic, entitled... the list of negative adjectives for these books and the writer are legion.
Note: I chanced upon the second installment of her autobiography while browsing at my local library. I haphazardly opened it and came upon a passage where she ridicules her mother for calling her out on the lies in the first books, then starts in again at ripping her adoptive mother's character to shreds.
Just appalling!
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Apr 24, 2021 12:03AM
Yikes! Sounds dire, Susan!
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I tried this author once for her Christmas stories and just had this strong distaste for her....perhaps I was on to something....
Kimber wrote: "I tried this author once for her Christmas stories and just had this strong distaste for her....perhaps I was on to something...."Kimber, you must be very empathetic because just reading the first chapter had me gagging with distaste. She seems like one of those people who won't admit blame for anything, and won't accept responsibility for her own choices and actions. Sometimes we are the major contributors to our own downfall.
Quite a few of us had strict upbringings ( also with very little money to spare) but we have to cut our parents some slack: they were also the product of their own strict upbringing.
She vilified her adoptive parents in this book and in her two autobiographies - and I could see the unforgiving hate and rage in her heart. She used her gifts as a writer to get back at her parents. What a waste!
Stay well, Kimber - I'm going to stay away from these writers with nothing but anger and hate in their hearts, and I hope you do the same!
Claude's wrote: "Yikes! Sounds dire, Susan!"Yes Claude, she has such a huge grudge against her parents, life and other people. When I was skimming her autobiographies, she says that she lives a solitary life. She has two homes with no one to share it with. I wasn't at all surprised, if her outlook on life is the same as the tone of her books: unforgiving, judgmental, and totally lacking in any compassion for human weakness.
I hope you are doing well, Claude.
I read the second book (of her 2 autobiographies) and decided to read reviews of the first to determine if I should read the first. When I saw how mixed the reviews were, I was going to skip it … until I read this review.Your interpretation of the second book couldn’t be further off if you tried.
1. She empathizes with her mother throughout that book, even though …
2. I wouldn’t wish her childhood on anyone
Isn’t it possible that she had unloving, emotionally abusive parents and she is just telling it like it was.
