Rock Needs River
From a story first told in the popular New York Times parenting blog comes a funny, touching memoir about a mother who welcomesthan a new daughter into her home.After two years of waiting to adopt slogging through paperwork and bouncing between hope and despair a miracle finally happened for Vanessa McGrady Her sweet baby, Grace, was a dream come true Then Vanessa made a highly uncommon gesture when Grace s biological parents became homeless, Vanessa invited them to stay.Without a blueprint for navigating the practical basics of an open adoption or any discussion of expectations or boundaries, the unusual living arrangement became a bottomless well of conflicting emotions and increasingly difficult decisions complicated by missed opportunities, regret, social chaos, and broken hearts.Written with wit, candor, and compassion, Rock Needs River is, ultimately, Vanessa s love letter to her daughter, one that illuminates the universal need for connection and the heroine s journey to find her tribe. New Download Rock Needs River by Vanessa McGrady For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This book fails miserably at all the things it claims to be It perfectly fits my usual interests memoir adoption OPEN adoption I was so excited to see a book that fit my odd little reading niche so nicely, especially for free I dove into it, hoping it would be my first great read of the year It was not From the memoir perspective it s just not a good book It s vague and too quick in places it shouldn t be, and long and rambling in others It reads similarly to a teenage or early co This book fails miserably at all the things it claims to be It perfectly fits my usual interests memoir adoption OPEN adoption I was so excited to see a book that fit my odd little reading niche so nicely, especially for free I dove into it, hoping it would be my first great read of the year It was not From the memoir perspective it s just not a good book It s vague and too quick in places it shouldn t be, and long and rambling in others It reads similarly to a teenage or early college essay, just a lot of information and correct grammar and syntax but no overarching point or skill to craft the narrative The author basically shares the minutia of her personal life, including a long and boring list...I m disappointed that this was my first completed read of the year I am glad that it was a free read vias Kindle First program because I cannot imagine wanting to spend money on this fluff piece The book blurb suggests a funny and witty story of a mother s 2 year wait to adopt and then the surprise twist of taking her baby s birth parents into her home when they end up homeless It takes FIVE CHAPTERS to actually get to the adoption part of the story those five chapters are an a I m disappointed that this was my first completed read of the year I am glad that it was a free read vias Kindle First program because I cannot imagine wanting to spend money on this fluff piece The book blurb suggests a funny and witty story of a mother s 2 year wait to adopt and then the surprise twist of taking her baby s birth parents into her home when they end up homeless It takes FIVE CHAPTERS to actually get to the adoption part of the story those five chapters are an absolutely boring, self absorbed account of the author s life wandering from city to city and a weirdly specific list of ex boyfriends, their names, a short recount of her relationship with each man, and a final explanation on why the relationship didn t last Background details of the author for a memoir is fine, but this part meandered for way too long and didn t actually add anything to the story Talking about her shaky relationship with her parents and...Overall, this wasn t a terrible read, but it really wasn t very good, either I must begin by saying, that any person that adopts a child, I have admiration for, as it is never a process that is done lightly It is usually lengthy, difficult and sometimes, can be pretty emotional for all people involved This book is about an open adoption, where eventually, the adoptive parent allows the birth parents to move in and live in her home Unfortunately, the actual adoption doesn t occur until around Overall, this wasn t a terrible read, but it really wasn t very good, either I must begin by saying, that any person that adopts a child, I have admiration for, as it is never a process that is done lightly It is usually lengthy, difficult and sometimes, can be pretty emotional for all people involved This book is about an open adoption, where eventually, the adoptive parent allows the birth parents to move in and live in her home Unfortunately, the actual adoption doesn t occur until around six chapters in, and during those five chapters, the author tells us about her city travelling and her sexual partners, and why her past relationships failed Did we really need to know all of that ...Oh, man, the author was so close to getting itand just never did I was aching for her to develop some sort of insight any sort of insight into why she felt and behaved as she did towards her daughter s bio parents.Instead, over and over again, I read confused complaints about how they disappointed her and very little acknowledgement that her expectations may have been unfair Very little awareness that it was presumptuous to impose her own standards on them, and that her position of c Oh, man, the author was so close to getting itand just never did I was aching for her to develop some sort of insight any sort of insight into why she felt and behaved as she did towards her daughter s bio parents.Instead, over and over again, I read confused complaints about how they disappointed her and very little acknowledgement that her expectations may have been unfair Very little awareness that it was presumptuous to impose her own standards on them, and that her position of comparative privilege warranted real delicacy Very little in the way of what felt like authentic empathy And very little growth, as far as I could track.Although plenty of readers felt the author was generous in that she let Bill and Bridgett stay at her home when they were homeless, my overall takeaway was that she didn t have the kind of generosity that means the most generosity of spirit.For these reasons, I found the entire story off putting, even...Entertaining at first but quickly turned into a narcissistic account of one woman s the author, perhaps Sexual encounters, work history and selfish desire to have a baby when obviously she wasn t meant to be a mother....More about the author than the adoption very self absorbedI wishof the book had the upbeat, optimistic style of this example My parents taught me how to create a tribe Some of my blood related family is in my tribe, to be sure, but most of its members I ve picked up along the way, starting when I was four with my best friend, Lisa, who lived downstairs and who is closer to me today than any blood sister could be My tribe is hilarious and loyal and helpful and made up of fragile soul More about the author than the adoption very self absorbedI wishof the book had the upbeat, optimistic style of this example My parents taught me how to create a tribe Some of my blood related family is in my tribe, to be sure, but most of its members I ve picked up along the way, starting when I was four with my best friend, Lisa, who lived downstairs and who is closer to me today than any blood sister could be My tribe is hilarious and loyal and helpful and made up of fragile souls and supersonic minds and great, big, fat beating hearts, and I wouldn t be who I am without them My parents taught me how to find and keep people And maybe, maybe, I could be a mom and bring everything I knew to a little soul, and we could love each other in a way only a mother and daughter could Or should...This is the story of a woman growing into her heart With cozy candor that invites the reader to pour a tall glass of malbec, kick off her shoes and curl into the sofa, Vanessa McGrady shares her journey of choice and circumstance to becoming a mother One summer day, I was lolling around in the bath, and, inexplicably, with no apparent trigger, I wanted a baby I was nearing thirty I felt an allover tug in my body, a missing of someone I didn t know Every single cell in me ached The tears sta This is the story of a woman growing into her heart With cozy candor that invites the reader to pour a tall glass of malbec, kick off her shoes and curl into the sofa, Vanessa McGrady shares her journey of choice and circumstance to becoming a mother One summer day, I was lolling around in the bath, and, inexplicably, with no apparent trigger, I wanted a baby I was nearing thirty I felt an allover tug in my body, a missing of someone I didn t know Every single cell in me ached The tears started dripping down my face, slippi...I came across this book as a free download fromPrime I almost bailed just 20 pages in mostly due to swearing but decided to stick with it because it was describing a life and circumstances foreign to my own life and circumstances While somewhat interesting, I found the writing and pacing weak The author tries to be open and vulnerable, but her self analysisoften swings towards justification and rationalization than true awareness Some of her life mottos are completely differe I came across this book as a free download fromPrime I almost bailed just 20 pages in mostly due to swearing but decided to stick with it because it was describing a life and circumstances foreign to my own life and circumstances While somewhat interesting, I found the writing and pacing weak The author tries to be open and vulnerable, but her self analysisoften swings towar...This was one of myFirst Reads picks for the month of January From a story first told on the popular New York Times parenting blog comes a funny, touching memoir about a mother who welcomesthan a new daughter into her home Oh, how misleading this little blurb is Why Because there isn t much funny or touching about this book To be honest, it isn t even really a book about an open adoption since the author barely touches on the actual process and doesn t seem to have any understan This was one of myFirst Reads picks for the month of January From a story first told on the popular New York Times parenting blog comes a funny, touching memoir about a mother who welcomesthan a new daughter into her home Oh, how misleading this little blurb is Why Because there isn t much funny or touching about this book To be honest, it isn t even really a book about an open adoption since the author barely touches on the actual process and doesn t seem to have any understanding of how to...Rock Needs River isthan a story about an open adoption, whereby the parents putting a child up for adoption remain part of that child s life Author Vanessa McGrady s personal journey toward adoptive motherhood details the process by which she was able to locate a couple desiring to give up their daughter so as to focus on their dreams as musicians You will read about groups she joined as part of that process, mistakes she made which turned her ears red, the anxious, hopeful waiting a Rock Needs River isthan a story about an open adoption, whereby the parents putting a child up for adoption remain part of that child s life Author Vanessa McGrady s personal journey toward adoptive motherhood details the process by which she was able to locate a couple desiring to give up their daughter so as to focus on their dreams as musicians You will read about groups she joined as part of that process, mistakes she made which turned her ears red, the anxious, hopeful waiting and the rather torturous path she had to traverse since the few existing roadmaps were cursory and particular at best The parents, Bridgett and Bill, are a curious study a pair of artists somehow inured to a hardscrabble life of homeless tent living and off the grid s...
- 08 August 2018 Vanessa McGrady
- Hardcover
- 204 pages
- 1503903699
- Vanessa McGrady
- Rock Needs River