Pages: 280 📖 Year Published: 1996 🕰️ Days to Complete: 17 Author: Frances Mayes was born and raised in the American south and teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University where she also earned her masters degree. She is most-known for this book but has several novels and other books about her adventures in Italy and travels around the world. She divides her time between North Carolina and Cortona, Italy and has one daughter. Three words to describe this read:

Pages: 328 📖 Year Published: 2020 🕰️ Days to Complete: 12 Author: Glennon Doyle is an author, speaker, and activist. She was born in Virginia and earned a degree from James Madison University. She became a teacher after graduation and in 2009, began a blog. Her blog gained popularity and she eventually wrote Carry On, Warrior in 2013. Her next book, Love Warrior, was published in 2016 and Untamed was published in 2020. Doyle now produces a podcast called We Can Do Hard Thin

This is hard for me to write for a lot of reasons: reasons that have made it difficult for me to write anything about my mom since she died, no matter how hard or how many times I’ve tried, reasons I could mention, but I won’t because that’s not what this is about. This is about missing my mom. I miss the way I could cry to her. I never had to have a reason to bawl in front of my mom. She always asked what was wrong, but a sufficient answer could have been, “I don’t know,” wh