This is a wonderfully inspiring story about a woman who overcame a very traumatic and harrowing younger life. She finds herself and explores what everything that happened to her means and how it helped her to become the woman she is today.

A very emotional account of a woman's emotional and verbal abuse. Abuse doesn't have to be physical to have a lasting impression.

This is a compelling honestly written book about the authors life as a abused wife in the 1950's , her early life and her life after she left her husband. As one from a emotional and verbally abusive family I felt her pain and understand her journey.
The author is so inspiring and so brilliant at crafting a happy new life that I found myself cheering her on. It is a story for all women who have suffered abusive relationships (family or otherwise) and come out on the other side. It was a honor to read her story so beautifully written.
Thank you for the ARC which did not influence my review. I highly recommend this book for all women who have lived through similar circumstances. This will inspire you !

Title: Screw the Eggshells
Author: Karen Heckman Stork
Publisher: Diamond Beach Press
Publish Date: Sept. 13, 2017
Buy Link: https://goo.gl/XBZFsB
4 ½

Book Blurb: “It took me many years to learn what love meant, and I didn’t totally understand until I was in my forties.” (P 37)

Summary:
The author wrote a book about her life-particularly why she for so long thought that she was a second class citizen in her own life. She let the man she married abuse her, belittle her and make her feel inferior. What’s more is that she didn’t know or seem to know how to stop it. Karen Heckman Stork married Ron in 1964. In the beginning she said there were so many warning signs. Why didn’t she recognize them sooner? Her daughter was born because against a joint decision they made she stopped taking her birth control. She contributes that to her journey to freedom and self-respect. Soon after that she began taking more notice of what he was saying and doing. Then one day she had enough. Her daughter was still in junior high at the time. Karen kicked her husband out after he came home drunk. Soon thereafter they got divorced. All the while as this was going on- Ron her now ex-husband was drinking. He attempted suicide and then eventually killed himself. Meanwhile, Karen began to thrive as a divorced woman. She went back to school. Got into a new relationship. Began new interests. Started her own column in a senior newspaper and wrote this novel. Her purpose for writing this book was to say that she could and to let people know that she was tired of walking on eggshells around a man who didn’t seem to care how much he hurt her. It was time for her.

Review:
I liked this book. I have read different books about abuse and they all say the same thing. Why didn’t I notice the signs or protect myself? Some end up in the women in prison for murder or worse dead and it’s the ones who are living who tell the story. But this story ended differently. Instead of her killing her husband- he killed himself. How is that for justice? I know you are like rather harsh and unfair. Maybe so but don’t you think it is time that one woman just one woman didn’t get accused of murdering a man who beat her and mentally abused her and then lost her life on top of everything else that she lost and spend it in prison? For killing a man who made it about her or him. Not to mention the scars on the children. There are many wonderful quotes in this novel. I think anyone could find it useful.
If you like Women’s Studies I think this book is a good read for a class like that. A book written by woman authors and that shows a different side of the woman.
I highly recommend this read to you who would like to read it.

Disclosure: Pursuant to law, I am disclosing that I did this book review for no monetary compensation but did received a complimentary copy of the book from the publisher.

Didn't speak to me - just a woman in a not great relationship who finally gets out of it and then the story of her life. Kind of vanilla.

A very amateur memoir. The title evokes a very helpful guide to living with someone who suffers from borderline personality disorder, Stop Walking On Eggshells, but this garbled text has nothing to do with that one.

This was a bit of a hum drum memoir. The book wasn't that interesting and I really just wanted to get it over with.

Great book.
Review scheduled for publication date.