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First Line Friday – Shades of Light (Sharon Garlough Brown)

Happy Friday and welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books. It’s book club week for me, which means I’m currently in the middle of a race to finish this month’s book, Shades of Light by Sharon Garlough Brown, before our meeting tonight! 😬 It’s a heavier book than most, dealing as it does with depression and anxiety—and as someone who has had experience with depression, I can tell you it cuts close to the bone. I haven’t finished it yet, but if nothing else, I can tell you that this book portrays both the feelings of the sufferer and the feelings of those who are walking alongside the sufferer very well.

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