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📖BOOK TITLE: THIS CLOSE TO OKAY

📖AUTHOR: LEESA CROSS-SMITH

📖THOUGHTS&OPINIONS:

#143rdBookOf2024

This is a very sad story, and you absolutely have to find out the triggers before you start reading. This book contains suicidal attempts, jail time, death of a spouse and a child, infidelity, divorce, and PTSD, just to mention a few.

This book broke my heart for all different reasons; initially it started slow, but it began to take shape over the course of the chapters. What happened to Emmett* was very terrible, but it still doesn't excuse his behavior for being dishonest to Tallie 😪. I felt for his loss. I am still feeling his loss😭. Anytime I think of what happened to him and his family, I break down because nobody deserves to go through what he went through.

Through Tallie Clark, I learned the need to be kind and care for people around us, even strangers, without losing sight of yourself. To Tallie, because you are an extremely kind person, I will strive to be kind as well to people I meet because that single act of kindness that you think is not significant means the world to the other person.

And to anyone who is not okay, please don't forget that there are people who love and care about you, and it is okay to not be okay.

📖RATINGS: 4 STARS ⭐⭐⭐⭐

📖QUOTES:

♧ It’s baffling how you can think you know someone and not know them at all.

♧ After love, forgiveness is the strongest glue holding every family together.

♧ You have to do things when you have a chance to do them

♧ 1 Thessalonians 4:11–12 Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

♧ You are not alone. You matter. You are so loved.

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