Cathy Glass je pseudonym, pod kterým vystupuje profesionální pěstounka, u které se za dvacet let "rodičování" vystřídalo asi padesát různých dětí. Rozbitá je přitom příběh vyprávěný z jejího pohledu v momentě, kdy se má do její rodiny nastěhovat osmiletá holčička Jodie. Jodie je problémové dítě, za poslední čtyři měsíce vystřídala pět rodin. Je nezvladatelná, agresivní, hrubá, vulgární, bez emocí, bez nadšení. Nikdo však netuší, proč tomu tak je. Nebýt Cathy, nikdo by se zřejmě nikdy nedozvěděl, že byla Jodie od útlého dětství pohlavně zneužíváná. Nikdo netušil, v jakém měřítku. Úřady v jejím případě totálně po celou dobu selhávaly a sociální pracovníci si Jodie přehazovali jako horký brambor. Tahle kniha vás donutí přemýšlet nad tím, jaká zvěrstva se možná dějí dětem hned vedle za zdí u sousedů. Zastrašit děti, aby mlčely, je snadné. My dospělí máme své techniky a víme, čeho se děti bojí. Hnus je, když se zastrašování stane pro dítě noční můrou a to je pak - dost pravděpodobně - do konce života odsouzeno pouze trpět a nikdy se nedat jako člověk do pořádku. Když se mě přítel zeptal, zda je tahle kniha opravdu tak dobrá, že jsem ji - na můj vkus - přečetla v rekordním čase, nevěděla jsem, co odpovědět. As Jodie begins to trust Cathy, her behaviour improves. Over time, with childish honesty, she reveals details of the abuses she suffered at the hands of her parents and others. This typically only happens with older books, but it happens to the older books on my shelves quite often. I have a baggy full of spines just waiting to be reattached to their books. You’ll need binding tape, a bone folder, glue and paint, and something soft to wrap the book in, like a T-shirt or a non-adhesive bandage or wrap.

First, you’re going to need the right supplies. If you’re a crafty person, you might already have some of these things at home, but if not, you buy any number of book repair or bookbinding kits, like this one or this one. Book Repair 101: How to Repair a Broken Book What You’ll Need for Book Repair Brace the book with weights so that the spine is horizontal to the table. (You want to be able to work on the length of the spine.) I offer an online quotation service or you can arrange to visit in-person with your book: Online book repair quote with postal service Wrap the book with a T-shirt or bandage to make sure the tape holds. The book should be ready to be used in a few hours. Her work is strongly identified with both the True Life Stories and Inspirational Memoirs genres, and she has also written a parenting guide to bringing up children, Happy Kids, and a novel, The Girl in the Mirror, based on a true story.

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Tohle je tak citlivý a na mou emotivní stránku silný příběh, že jsem nedokázala určit, zda je tedy "tak dobrý" nebo "tak strašný". Cathy Glass rozhodně není povoláním autorka, takže to jde na stylu, jakým píše, znát. Píše jednoduše, ale jde vidět, že své práci rozumí a za svůj spisovatelský um se nemusí absolutně vůbec stydět. Naopak, ve vyprávění, jako je tohle, je to dokonce v pořádku. I am an experienced bookbinder specialising in the restoration and repair of antiquarian and collectable books.

Writing was so-so... I think that there are better stories of the realities of being a foster parent. This felt more like "LOOK AT ALL THESE TERRIBLE THINGS! LOOK HOW BAD THE SYSTEM IS! LOOK HOW DAMAGED THESE CHILDREN ARE!"

I don't know if you're aware, but abilities such as reading or writing can only be correctly developed after a certain age because that's when the brain reaches the maturity needed. It's also true that others, like language, if not developed in a critical period, cause the brain to interpret this ability as "unnecessary" and it atrophies the area responsible for it. The latest was exactly what happened to Jodie. Her development was compromise; not impossible to reach but extremely hard.

Find sources: "Damage"Hart novel– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( May 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) But here's what is still to be revealed: the perpetrators' stories. We might be talking about domestic abuse or rape or war crimes, but there's nothing from them ever. Ever. Probably on the very reasonable grounds that they're all nauseating lowlifes who should be given rat poison rather than a pen and paper, and also that they'll lie and try to make out it was all because of their own painful childhoods or that the rape and the war crime was consensual. The depraved are either smart enough to know they really shouldn't tell the truth, or stupid enough not to be able to anyway. So it seems that at present we believe that victims always tell the truth and perpetrators always lie. Can this be true? Probably not, but I think we'll have to live with that for a long time yet. I doubt that we'll ever get the perpetrator's stories. Why would we want to? Because no man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; because I am involved in mankind. (That last bit's by John Donne, not me!) Cathy Glass has written nearly a dozen or so of these novels; at this point, she is profiting greatly from these children's' sufferings. What of the children's confidentiality? It doesn't seem like Jodie could have consented to her story being told to the world. If it had been a single memoir from Cathy Glass, the story of her lifetime, I would have understood, but writing continually about it? That seems like exploitation of the children and a reflection of society's perversions that they continue to sell well.How do I even try to explain in words how completely disturbing this story was? On about 10 different occasions, I almost had to close the book and stop reading so I would not either vomit or burst into tears. The things that have happened to Jodie (pseudonym) are so beyond understanding. How could another human being do the sorts of crude and disgusting acts upon their own child? The amount of sexual abuse that comes out in this book, all verbalized by Jodie herself, are graphic and I guarantee any other reader will retch, gasp, scream, or want to walk away.

I restore leather-bound family Bibles as well as Bibles that are cherished or used by their owners. My techniques conserve what are often important family heirlooms for future generations. Damage is a 1991 novel by Josephine Hart about a British politician who, in the prime of life, causes his own downfall through an inappropriate relationship. It was adapted into a film of the same title by Louis Malle in 1992, as well as into an opera (called Damage, an Opera in Seven Meals) by Greek composer Kharálampos Goyós which premiered as part of the Athens Festival in 2008. [1] A second screen adaptation has been released in April 2023 as a four-part limited series for Netflix, under the title Obsession. [2] [3] Plot summary [ edit ]Treating our materials with consideration means that other readers can use and enjoy them in the years ahead. Are we now living in the age of Full Disclosure when everything is revealed about what people do to each other, the real truth about what human beings are? When it comes to dresses being paraded with presidential semen stains still upon them, or the latest youtube viral video horrors, you may think so. But - although it seems we have reached a plateau I think there is a way to go. The misery memoir, of which A Boy Called It is the ur-text, is a step along the way. Misery memoirs - my Waterstone's has a whole wall of them. Damaged was one of the first. Cathy Glass is a foster carer with twenty years of experience and said: "Jodie was the most disturbed and abused child I had ever looked after". I appreciate how much the author tried to help Jodie by, obviously, doing her job. I found her to be an amazing person with an amazing heart. May your bloodthirst never be sated, and may all your battles be glorious. Zamorak bring you strength.