Take Blackbird: A Childhood Lost And Found Narrated By Jennifer Lauck Depicted In Digital Copy
singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
Most of the time I don't read those little quotes or whatever you have to call them on the first pages of a book but this is so correct, sums everything up so beautiful.
After everything that happened to her, she found somewhere the courage to carry on or was to stuburn to give up.
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The begining of the book was a bit hard, when she talks about her mother in the words and thoughts of ayo girl but then at a certain point the book gets an hold on you.
There are so many terrible things happening, you feel the hopelesness of a frighten little girl when her mother was still alive and her trying to fit in with her new family but realising that she's just not accepted.
I can't say what part moved me the most, Maybe the part of her learning how to swim has it all, 'specially the way her father reacted, it felt like such a betrayal.
This is a story that will stay with you for a long time, Sometimes you think things can't get worse but they did but even when she was down and out, she still found a way to be happy and make the best of it.
. . Hated it. Pretty much the most boring, torturous book I have ever read, Although compared by people to Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes I have no idea why, it's not even in the same solar system.
Glad to see the New York Times book reviewer agreed with me even if Oprah didn't, I am fascinated by survival stories, as a survivor myself,
It interests me to look into someone else's experience, As children we just don't always understand what is going on, Yet you do your best to survive and make sense of your life,
How someone else managed is interesting to me,
I may have arrived at the doorstep of adulthood floating on a plank, . . but in my case, "only God can restore the years that the locust hath eaten"! He is, and not only that, working all things for GOOD.
i'm not sure if anyone even reads my reviews so i'm not sure why i write them,
i'm on pageof this book and it is breaking my heart so much that i'm torn between quitting reading the book or hurrying up to finish it in hopes that it gets better.
Knowing that this is the author's memoir and that that these awful things happen to a young child is killing me.
. . even though I went through some of the same things, It's hard to know others have been through your most painful life moments, I've cried I don't know how many times trying to get through this book, I keep looking at the author's photo on the back of the book, She's pretty and smiling. How do we do that How do we move on Somehow we do,
done. moving on to the follow up book, Still Waters, This was an incredibly hard book to make it through, I'm hoping that the author's life starts to get better in the sequel, What a brave little girl she was! As a member of the club of adoptees and persons who were in the "system", this is a deeply penetrating memoir.
It brings up disturbing memories, but those that need to be exorcized, I started a recollection of my life and called it 'a child still waits', . . this memoir gets so close it's scary, I only know of one person who might grasp what this meant to me to read another person's young painful and redemptive survival.
She will know who she is, If she hasn't read this, she should, I did't find any answers, but I did find that, even though I understand there are many of us who are still in search and looking for answers, this book said so much of what I feel, so much of what I don't want to feel.
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Any of you who haven't come through the system, and think you know what it's like to not know where you belong.
. . this young woman has given voice to our fears and longing,
This is an incredible narrative and I would love to meet her and share my story,
I was adopted at, then "unadopted" and sent away at, The story gets more interesting, . . and atyears old now, I still have wonders and wishes about how it could all happen and why.
But I have a fantastic life and a wonderful manyears so far!This doesn't make everything all even, but it's tolerable.
Sorry. . this was supposed to be a review of the book, I guess it is . . it made me very contemplative! SO sad, I read her trio of biographical books in anticipation of meeting the author and hearing her speak on her life's awakening.
This book Blackbird was my first by Jennifer Lauck and left me wanting more which was immediately sated by her next book Still Waters, a less turbulent time in her life but still marred with her deep familial scars.
Her last book , Show me the Way, was an ending of sorts, but I still have many questions, Jennifer's wilingness to open her soul to us amazes me her courage is very touching, What a story! Highly recommend it, This memoir was one of the most heartwrenching books I have ever read, After she lost her mother, I wasn't ready for the successive tragedies that followed, The title is fitting she did indeed find her childhood by telling her story through the eyes of the girl she was, full of innocence.
I'm in awe over how she could find the strength to tell the story from
this perspective it would open up such deep wounds.
It reminded me of Wall's The Glass Castle: both authors survived unimagineably difficult childhoods that appeared somewhat normal to outsiders, preventing anyone from taking action to remove these girls from their situations.
This memoir is not for the faint of heart, It is intense and while you read you are wishing that it is fiction, It is hard to believe that someone could endure all that this little girl did, I actually found myself feeling very depressed as I read, I contemplated numerous times not finishing because it was so hard to get through, It is overwhelming to think that I can barely even make myself read about what a little child actually had to live.
This book brought up a very important question in my life, Should we avoid those things that cause us emotional stress and turmoil because they are bad for our spirit But in avoiding those realities do we allow ourselves to live in comfortable detached from reality world There are times while reading this book I wanted to put it out of mind and convince myself that stories like this never happen, that there arent children in our world suffering.
I felt like it was too hard to handle the reality and it was easier to just ignore the truth.
I believe that if we ignore these stories, stop watching the news, and distance ourselves from realities that may make us depressed we can live in a very comfortable world.
But, I dont believe we should, I believe that feeling uncomfortable is necessary to elicit change, If we dont allow ourselves to feel the pain and sorrow that is around us, we wont be motivated to alleviate that pain and sorrow.
This book has inspired me to do all that is in my ability to help orphaned children, To give a chance to those children that have everything stacked against them, While reading this book I kept thinking isnt there anyone out there that can reach out and help this little child.
I will never forget that feeling and hope that I can be that type of person, You might like this book, I don't know you, The ending chapters were rushed, but the book overall was good,
I kept wondering about her teeth, schizophrenia, legal action, but the jacket said the author was working on a second volume.
I'll be looking for it, What do I think I think, "was Deb out of her flipping mind!!" Was it just the times, the's cult era I mean what the hll was going on in this kid's life Jennifer Lauck writes of her childhood, and it is disturbing.
She is praised by critics for her ability to write in the voice of a child, I agree, she does this well, I've got lots of questions, but I guess if she wanted to fill in the blanks she would have done so.
I mean, just stuff that sticks in my mind like, were the teeth she got knocked out baby or permanent Was she without front teeth until dental work was done Someone tells me a true story and I want to know more where things don't link up or are unfinished.
And that would just be the start of my questions, Even the UCLA death summary for her mother left me with questions,
I must admit I would also be very interested to read all the other character's memoirs as everything looks different to each individual.
No matter what, this is painful reading, shocking, painful reading, I'm glad Jenny Lauck made it through, .