With a new year comes new goals. Whether they be little or big, the achievement of these goals is highly rewarding and somewhat inspiring for other individuals to follow their own goals. For instance, creating this blog was a goal of mine to achieve. I've always wanted to share my thoughts and writing with people, while keeping the process simple. This small achievement for myself is exciting and I look forward to sharing more writing pieces with future interested readers. I hope to share some poetry, prose, and even book reviews! I also created a #bookstagram account for anyone interested in following: morebooksplease_
Not the usual suspense-thriller synopsis I've become accustomed to when reading Lisa Jewell's novels, however, I was entranced by this novel from the get-co. The House We Grew Up In centers around a mother and her four children over the span of a decade. The mother, Lorelei, has an extensive hobby of collecting items that harbor a memory of time spent with her loved ones. Each and every memory-- meaning each and every item she just happens to come across. Lorelei is in fact a hoarder and it does not get better with time. It gets worse. In addition to Lorelei's intense and overbearing lifestyle, her children forego their relationship with their mother and each other in order to gain a sense of normalcy within their individual lives. One of Lorelei's children committed suicide at a ripe age of sixteen and her other three were simultaneously impacted by the act tremendously. Her other son took to finding a thrilling lifestyle in all the wrong places...
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