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Comment on Discussion Thread 🦊 Friday 23 May 2025

CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I’ve always read books but what got me into biographies was a book called Two Pence To Cross The Mercy by Helem Forrester. It’s about a twelve year old girl who basically raised her family out of poverty during the depression. She was smart and all she wanted to do was go to school. There’s 4 books in the series. You feel for this young girl but that’s not how she wrote the stories. She just did what she felt she had to do.

It’s something that’s never left me.

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TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I loved that series. That and Janet Sandison’s series called Jean In The Morning, Jean Towards another Day, Jean at Noon and Jean In the Twilight. We don’t remember the depression, but it marked our parents/grandparents with huge trauma.

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- PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I may have to start a “to read” list
  
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- CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’ll have to look this up. We have to learn from this.
  
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PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Ok this sounded interesting, and a sample reading has driven me to download Libby and start on the eBook. Thankyou 🙂

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- CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It’s like Angela’s Ashes but from young girls feel.
  
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  - melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Have you read Poor Man’s Orange?
    
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    CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yes and watched the series. So good.
    
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  - PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Thankyou again, I’ve finished the book last night! She has such a beautiful way of writing, so descriptive. My library didn’t have the 2nd book in the series, but I found the Internet Archive has it and I’ve started reading it too. Her parents are so infuriating!
    
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    CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    No worries.
    
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Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I love recommendations so just bought the audiobook. 🙂

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- CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You will love it
  
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  - Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It reminds me of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, which I read when I was about 10.
    
    40 years later I would visit Brooklyn regularly and I would always think about the book.
    
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