Blackbird
A Childhood Lost and Found

Is it wrong to review my own book? Heck no! I wrote it. Who better than me to speak about it? What Blackbird is: a view into my own experience of childhood at a time when all I could do was be a first person, present tense witness. I wrote Blackbird from a place of longing to love and be loved as we......more

i'm not sure if anyone even reads my reviews so i'm not sure why i write them. i'm on page 222 of 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 t......more

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......more

Loved this book. It was like a huge wallop of a punch to my stomach though. Jennifer Lauck’s memoir really got to me emotionally; it was a book that I thought about for a long time after I read it. She shows a remarkable resilience for suffering what she did. Contributed to changing my beliefs about......more

Memoirs by women are my favorite type of book to read. This book is written from a child's perspective which takes some getting used to. That said, her writing is very good. It is a story of childhood innocence and survival. Her story reminds you of your childhood and how vulnerable a child is to th......more