From the Bookshelf of Bound Together

The Butterfly Lampshade
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Start date
May 20, 2020
Finish date
May 26, 2020
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A Sneak Peek~Under the Covers
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Diane S ☔
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May 20th thru May 26th
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Diane S ☔
May 20, 2020 rated it really liked it
Wonderful title, gorgeous book cover. Long time members may remember my comments calling this authors past book, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake the silly lemon cake book. This is her first book in ten years and I'm surprised at how much it resonated.

Past memories, trauma when young, mental illness and mother daughter relationships. Francine is a young girl when she goes to live with her aunt after her mother has a breakdown. Her memories are unclear and added to the fear that she has her m
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Heather Fineisen
Jul 31, 2020 rated it liked it
A story centering on mental illness and the toll it takes on family members. Mother and child relationships with quirky outcomes in personalities. Fantastical perceptions causes daughter to question own sanity. A sad novel.

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Lotte
Jul 18, 2020 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2020-read
The Butterfly Lampshade is about a mother with a mental illness, psychosis, and a daughter trying to decipher her past and work through her present. We begin by seeing the extent of Francie’s mother illness and the facts of what happened next. However as we get further into the story Francie recalls these memories and gives them more details and context.

I’m going to be honest from the start, this wasn’t a book for me. It was more of an introspective study of a mind experiencing psychoses than a
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