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typewriter-worries · 1 year
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I'm Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy
[ Text ID: I yearn to know the people I love deeply and intimately—without context, without boxes—and I yearn for them to know me that way, too.]
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maddiesbookshelves · 1 year
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I'm Glad My Mom Died, by Jennette McCurdy (January 2023)
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Jennette McCurdy's memoir about her relationship with her mother, the impact she had on her both during her life and after her death, and the consequences of being a child actor.
Would I recommend it to anyone? Yes, but not to everyone because it's really "child abuse, addiction and eating disorders", The Book. So you have to make sure those aren't triggers for you before reading this book.
Level of (dis)satisfaction based on the summary and my expectations? I almost never read non-fiction, I'm trying to read more of it so I'm glad I liked this one.
My thoughts on it? I had heard several people say that the narration feels child-like at the beginning and that it was because Jennette McCurdy wrote from child-her's point of view, and I didn't really get what they meant. And then I read it and I understood. As an adult reader, I could understand things that 8-y.o-Jennette or 13-y.o-Jennette couldn't, I could see how toxic and abusive her mother's behavior was. And it was gut-wrenching.
It was a very interesting read on several levels, we see a bit of the reality of child actors, and I think that the people who watched Nikelodeon during the iCarly years etc will sse the show and Jennette in a new light. That said, I also know someone who couldn't finish the book because they were a fan of Jennette and reading it was breaking their heart.
Anyway, Jennette McCurdy is right to focus on writing now, she's talented (and it makes her happier).
btw, i think it's sad that the first thing the official summary says is “A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy” while she clearly said she doesn't want to be remembered as Sam. i understand that it's for marketing reasons, but it's still sad
French version under the cut
Les mémoires de Jennette McCurdy sur sa relation avec sa mère, l'impacte qu'elle a eu sur elle de son vivant comme après sa mort, et les conséquences d'une carrière d'enfant star.
Est-ce que tu le conseillerais à quelqu’un ? Oui, mais pas à tout le monde parce que c’est vraiment “maltraitance d’enfant, addiction et troubles alimentaires”, Le Livre. Donc il faut s’assurer que ce sont pas des déclencheur avant de commencer le livre.
Niveau de déception/satisfaction par rapport au résumé et tes attentes ? Je lis quasiment pas de non-fiction, j’essaie dans lire plus donc je suis contente d’avoir aimé celui-là.
Avis sans spoiler ? J’avais entendu plusieurs personnes dire que la narration est un peu enfantine au début et que c’était parce que Jennette McCurdy écrivait de son point de vue en tant qu’enfant, et je comprenais pas trop ce que ces personnes voulaient dire. Puis j’ai lu le livre et j’ai compris. En tant que lectrice adulte, je comprenais des choses que Jennette-à-8-ans ou Jennette-à-13-ans ne comprenait pas, je voyais à quel point le comportement de sa mère était toxique et abusif. Et c’était vraiment déchirant.
C’est vraiment une lecture très intéressante à beaucoup de niveaux, on voit un peu la réalité des enfants star, et je pense que pour les personnes qui regardaient Nikelodeon à l’époque de iCarly etc vont voir la série et Jennette sous un nouveau jour. Après je connais aussi quelqu’un qui n’a pas réussi à finir le livre parce qu’iel était fan de Jennette et que ça lui brisait le cœur de le lire.
En tous cas, Jennette McCurdy a raison de se concentrer sur l’écriture maintenant parce qu’elle a vraiment du talent (et ça la rend plus heureuse).
d’ailleurs, je pense que c’est triste que le premier truc que le résumé officiel dise c’est “Un mémoire déchirant et hilarant par la star de iCarly et Sam & Cat, Jennette McCurdy” alors qu’elle dit clairement qu’elle veut pas qu’on se souvienne d’elle comme Sam. je comprends que c’est pour des raisons marketing mais c’est quand même triste
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sunnywiththescoop · 5 months
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I know you don't usually like to get into specifics but that post about Jada made me wonder how you think she and/or her publicist is handling her revelations and book promo. She seems to be getting a great deal of backlash and most people I've talked to are sick of her and wish she would shut up and go away. Has she done too much publicity? Overshared to much private information? Or is it what she's sharing? Most think she is making Will Smith look bad. I've heard the word emasculating thrown around bit. Would love to hear your take on how promo for her book release is going.
It's earning headlines in all the right places, so I feel like it's probably going as planned...but I'm so confused about what the long term strategy is.
If the goal was to someday remerge as a Hollywood power couple that persevered thru scandal, no one is going to believe it now! Reconciling after a public split would have gone a lot further to accomplish that. (Bennifer 2.0, Burton/Taylor 2.0) Which is why I think something besides PR is at play: Scientology, kids, money...
To echo what Sunny (and I guess a Forbes article) said:
For sure there is always an audience for celebrity TMI, but the bombshell revelations start to feel like strategic lies when the public has been begging you to say less for so long. 🐴
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bookishpixiereads · 11 months
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I finished Paris Hilton’s memoir over the weekend, and man, it’s sooo good. Prior to listening to this on audio, I knew very little of Paris so it was all new to me.
Favorite quotes:
“Instead of shame, I would wrap myself in audacity…”
“And girls have traditionally dealt with more than our share [of shame] and we’re over it, I know I am.”
“I believe kindness and decency will win eventually because its good business. The market for assholes is simply not sustainable.”
“[The word] Fuck saves the day.”
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swiftiesisters14 · 1 year
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Second book of the year! I’ve been listening to a lot of celebrity memoirs lately and this one was fun. I really enjoyed learning about Tan’s early life and his adorable love story with his husband. Overall it wasn’t my favorite memoir but it was very enjoyable and fun to listen to! Rating: 3.5/5
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The book: https://amzn.to/3QkEN2P
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suchananewsblog · 5 months
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Jada Pinkett and Will Smith slammed over marriage circus: ‘For God’s sakes go away’
Jada Pinkett and Will Smith were once Hollywood’s most powerful couple. Now, some fans say, they’re just annoying. First, there are the endless divorce rumors, which the couple have been swatting away for years — only for Pinkett to recently reveal, surely coincidentally in the middle of a book promotion tour, that there is actually reason for the speculation. And so, now we all know that the…
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beanbowlbaggins · 1 year
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Now that I've read Jeanette McCurdy's memoir and loved it, I'm interested in other books by famous women. I'm actually excited to maybe pick up Pamela Anderson and Paris Hilton's books that are coming out this year.
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theusviral · 1 year
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How Matthew Perry got the last laugh on ‘Friends’
How Matthew Perry got the last laugh on ‘Friends’
Could Matthew Perry’s memoir be spilling any more dirt?  Perry, 53, has revealed that his notoriously mouthy character Chandler Bing was able to have the last line on “Friends” because he specifically requested it. In his book, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing,” which was published Nov. 1, Perry writes, “Before that final episode, I’d taken [co-creator] Marta Kauffman to one side.…
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bargainsleuthbooks · 2 years
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#ChasingHistoryAKidintheNewsroom by #CarlBernstein #AudiobookReview #BookReview
Famed journalist #CarlBernstein got his start while still in high school. #ChasingHistoryAKidintheNewsroom is a look at his first few years in the business, which coincided with #JFK presidency, #AudiobookReview #BookReview #WashingtonEveningStar
“In 1960, Bernstein was just a sixteen-year-old at considerable risk of failing to graduate high school. Inquisitive, self-taught―and, yes, truant―Bernstein landed a job as a copyboy at the Evening Star, the afternoon paper in Washington. By nineteen, he was a reporter there. In Chasing History (Amazon), Bernstein recalls the origins of his storied journalistic career as he chronicles the…
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carelessflower · 11 months
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lowkey out of the lightwood trio alec's case is so absurd. jace went from nepo baby and regretted it to double nepo baby, izzy a nepo baby decides to make simon her nepo boyfriend meanwhile alec says hmmm getting ahead because of my family's name and status is great? but is it enough? is it satisfying yet? is this the end of my potential? then bam he's now a nepo baby and a sugar baby
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rivertigo · 3 months
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guys what books do you think I’d like… ? trying to form a reading list for this year but my old reading list is full of books i don’t really care about anymore
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elfspectations · 4 months
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"I'm scared that after six decades of people making up stories about me, I'm going to tell the truth, and nobody is going to believe it."
-- My Name Is Barbra by Barbra Striesand
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katrinapavela · 5 months
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A thoughtful review of Kerry Washington’s Memoir: Submitted by a reader
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Your Questions as a Lens Into Thicker Than Water
Katrinapavela, because you set up really excellent questions about Kerry Washington’s book, I’m taking the liberty of writing to you in a non-public way (at least I hope it’s non-public; I am not much of a Tumblr maker) since I’m especially interested in the questions that you posed about “Scandal” and what might be explored in the book, and about her “comfort” with Tony Goldwyn. But these are not things that I want to have a “public” conversation about. And I will, of course, understand if you don’t have time to read this and/or don’t want to respond. I think that I just need to get this off my chest, and your questions were an invitation to me to think deeply about the book.
I’ve read the book now and see that your questions are a great doorway into the reasons why I’m so disappointed with the book. In many ways, your questions are so much more interesting than much of the book.
The parts of the book where she talks about her younger self and the trauma she endured, the problems with her body dysmorphia, the complicated family dynamics including the difficulties of her parents’ relationship and the revelation of the sperm donation that made her existence possible—all of those things are fascinating, compellingly written about, and even revelatory.
But so much of the book is superficial to the point that there are parts that read as though written by a not especially interesting ghost writer for a politician’s narrative of the self.
I found troubling the lack of attention to any of her relationships outside of cursory mentions and some details about her acting—in movies with Jamie Foxx (for example), the almost non-existent adult friendships that have been so much a part of her life, and the short shrift given to her “Scandal” time—the things your question about the show sets out, and especially her inattention to what everyone knew and endlessly wrote and talked about: the romantic core of the show, Olitz. And amidst the superficialities to which I just alluded, the lack of depth in her descriptions of her time with Nnamdi—including their wedding and their parenting of Isabelle and Caleb—jumped off the page. Well, if such enormous omissions can be said to jump off a page (but then I’m a poststructuralist so lacunae are endlessly fascinating to me).
In other words, I did not expect a tell-all given how guarded KW is, but I’m actually shocked by how little—again, apart from her attention to her very young and her college aged self and her parents—this book offers as a doorway into KW’s thinking and feeling. She has been more open in some interviews and even in “Scandal” cast panels at PaleyFest, for example. She has been a more interesting commentator on her life and personality in some magazine articles when she has talked about her journey to understanding her arrival at a sense of possibilities. I’ve read a lot about her, and much of this book lacks the depth that her articulate summations of herself have hinted at in those places.
 Finally, and I know that I’ve gone on much too long to be writing to someone I only know from Tumblr, it was the one-two-three punch of seeing her skip over David Moscow entirely, of her offering renditions of her conversations with Nnamdi that could have come from a fanzine (especially their dating and their wedding), and her choosing to mention Tony Goldwyn only twice in 305 pages when he, more than anyone else associated with “Scandal”—including Rhimes herself—was instrumental in “making” the Kerry Washing/Olivia Pope narrative that built her into the star that a vast audience came to know.
 Your question about their comfort, the “physics” at play in their observable connections, was a beautifully worded way for me to think about the conundrum represented by the book: there are vast mysteries of work, of character, of connections with people who were and are central to the public and private Kerry Washington, yet they are curiously missing from a memoir that she and interviewers in the past weeks have touted as open, as revealing a great deal of vulnerability.
 I teach literary and cultural studies, and I know just how much a “memoir” plays fast and loose with memory, with reconstructions of the details of a life, with walking a careful path between what one can bear to say and what one chooses to hold close. And perhaps my disappointment would be less had I not had my expectations raised by how smart she has been over the years in managing the interstices between how she responded to often unreasonable public demands of her and how she wanted to craft her image.
This book, again with the exceptions of her attention to her younger self’s traumas and her parents’ difficulties, was a real let down for me.
 Anyway, thank you, for your work on this blog.
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sbrown82 · 5 months
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Everybody & they mama got a damn memoir out! 🙄
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odettecarotte · 4 months
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Two book pairings I have enjoyed recently:
Britney Spears, The Woman in Me, followed by the chapter on Hysterical (Histrionic) Psychologies in Nancy McWilliams's classic Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process, 2nd edition.
Two wildly different takes on consent, both life-changing: Betty Martin will teach you how to feel consent in your body with The Art of Receiving and Giving: The Wheel of Consent and Avgi Saketopoulou will fuck up all that you didn't want to know about consent with Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia.
I will be quote-blogging these for my own pleassure, edification and future reference, and maybe yours as well!
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