I liked this well enough. It's billed as humorous, but I often found it more sad/poignant than funny.

Always so happy to read about someone else’s experiences with OCD! If you’re dealing with it, too, I highly recommend at least getting the book for that chapter.
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Good. Shows some insight into the films that made her famous as well as telling her life story. The first few chapters were hard to read as she came off brash but I stuck with it and it got better. 
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Audiobook 🎧

Didn’t enjoy the way the timeline jumped from childhood to adulthood and back again, felt a bit all over the place.

Really interesting in parts and really dull in others (sorry but I didn’t care about the choir days). 

The open letter to Matilda was my favourite chapter by far, it was extremely heartfelt. Also found the OCD anecdotes very interesting. 

Mara Wilson is a genuinely good writer with a fascinating life. Her willingness to be so open book about her fame, her illness, etc is powerful because she does have an impact and an audience. I'm glad Mara is still producing content that she's sharing with the world!

stepnic's review

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Where Am I Now? is the perfect title and stellar memoir of child star Mara Wilson who gave us Matilda and was in Mrs. Doubtfire and Miracle on 34th Street. She’s such a quintessential part of 90s cinema, and this book shares all about the actor’s childhood, what it’s like to be a child star from both the POV of a child and as an adult, and also shares about mental illness in a beautiful way. 
 
This book was published in 2016 when the author was 28 years old, and it is so well-written, funny, vulnerable, curious, and dishes so much fascinating tea. I listened to the audiobook version read by the author who did a great job, and it’s so compelling I finished it in two sittings. The book itself isn’t super long at a little over 7 hours, and is easy to read and follow. Having OCD myself, I was absolutely hooked on every word as she discussed her own diagnosis and her path to getting help. I’m obsessed with the fact that a chance encounter with a book led to her healing, and it just feels so relatable. 
 
She has such a unique view of life as a child, and yet she seems to have turned into such a well-adjusted normal human. She’s a stellar writer, and I’m happy she shared her story whether people pick it up for entertainment, mental health, death of a parent at a young age, growing up, theater school, hot goss, all of the above. 
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