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4.4 AVERAGE
4.4 AVERAGE
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Hearing about Sarah Polleys life from her own perspective was very interesting and eye opening. Her concussion story is inspiring and hopeful.
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I'm so glad I picked this as my first read of 2023. Road to Avonlea was a fixture of my childhood and I saw Polley perform as Alice in the Stratford production she writes about in her first essay. I'm also very familiar with her career as a director and have seen most of the films and series she has been involved with. This familiarity with her public life and career made this book an absolutely astounding read, although a difficult one because her suffering and trauma were invisible to me as a viewer/audience member. I think that's what was so powerful about this entire book of essays. She wasn't afraid to tell the story beneath the story, whether it was a scathing look at the child film industry, the #metoo movement, motherhood, or the way we encounter memory over the course of our lives. Best book of essays/memoir I've read in awhile!
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I've seen this so much lately that I had no clue it's actually backlist! This is a bit similar to Maggie O'Farrell's I Am, I Am, I Am but the threats and dangers are written about, to me, in a much more relatable, accessible way. As with any book of essays or short stories, I enjoyed some much more than others, and I particularly enjoyed the ones in which Polley writes about issues related to her motherhood. This could have been just under a 4 star read for me, but Polley is such an incredible writer that even the essays about content that didn't really interest me were written so well that I couldn't stop listening. It's no mystery she managed to win an Oscar for best adapted screenplay!