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Estou feliz que minha mãe morreu by Jennette McCurdy

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this was a rollercoaster and as much as i was always intrigued to read on, it was very difficult and harrowing to read as well.  all i'm gonna say is that i'm happy that jennette is not in the iCarly reboot, very happy, and i'm glad she's in a much better place now

*not adding a star rating to a memoir since i feel weird to give a rating to a person's life 

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This was a great memoir. I am glad to get to hear this audiobook version to hear Jennette McCurdy speak. This was a very insightful, heart-heavy and intimate book to read.

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some lagging parts but overall really engaging and brutally honest

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 So, as of 2022 we are currently 2 for 2 in terms of former N*ckelodeon child star memoirs (see Happy People are Annoying by Josh Peck); unsurprisingly, they are both incredible reads and oddly enough, they are both yellow (yes, my bookshelves are rainbow). 
 
I’m Glad My Mom Died tells the story of Jennette McCurdy’s life from age six up to her mid/late twenties through vignettes that are short but all encompassing. She really makes you feel as though you’re there with her at the hoarder house in Garbage Grove. 
 
I would lay down my life to protect Little Jennette; she went through so much at the hands of her own mother; someone who was supposed to take care of Jennette, but instead treated her own daughter as a choose-your-own-adventure story for twenty-one years. Jennette takes the dark and traumatic memories of her past and writes about them with wit and cynicism and elegance in a way that makes for funny and digestible prose without undercutting what happened to her. 
 
This memoir is rife with triggers from eating disorders to dysfunctional family (and an unbelievable combination of the two), but if you can make it through all that then you’re in for a truly enjoyable read that will run through every single one of your emotions and leave you begging for more. Even without the spilling of her N*ckelodeon tea (yes, I know you messy bitches were waiting for that, don’t try to hide it, I was also waiting) this book is entertaining and fulfilling and full of surprises. 
 
Given that I’m Glad My Mom Died is sold out literally everywhere books are sold and it has a four month long waitlist at the Brooklyn Public Library, I don’t think anyone needs a recommendation to read this, but imma still recommend it anyway because I love it so much. Jennette also narrates the audiobook herself and it’s incredible (and available on Scribd for your immediate listening — and yes, that's a free trial link, bc I got u like that) 

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Wow. I think this might be the best memoir I've ever read. I've always been a fan of Jennette McCurdy since watching iCarly, but never as much as I am right now having finished this book. I could not put this down. The writing in this book is absolutely BRILLIANT. It was honest, open, and detailed in a way where I was able to be in the headspace of whatever she was going through at that particular moment. Despite what the title reads, it is clear how much Jennette loved her mother and would do anything to please her, and did so at the expense of her own happiness and well-being. It's heartbreaking to imagine the abuse she endured by so many people during a time where the entire world, including myself, absolutely idolized her.

This is by no means an easy read, but an important one nonetheless. If you have the stomach to handle this book, I highly urge you to pick it up or listen to it on audio like I did. Not only am I glad her mom died, but that she finally got to do something for herself in writing this memoir. I hope it brought her as much healing as I felt while reading it.

Oh and thank gosh she didn't take that darn hush money. F*ck you Dan Schneider.

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The writing is excellent! I loved being in her perspective, because of how insightful and emotionally intelligent she is. The choice to tell the story as if everything is happening in the present while her language develops along with the passage of the years without needing to tell us in what year something is happening (it’s easy to figure out with the reference points she gives: what song is playing on the radio, for example), to me worked perfectly and made it a much better memoir for it. I’m sure it will not work for everyone but to me it made it unique. I was never much of a Nickelodeon viewer growing up, so I was only vaguely aware of the existence of iCarly, and I’m glad I’m only getting to “know” her on her own terms. I hope she writes more books and is able to live her life to the fullest and only worrying about her own expectations for herself, she had to live up to other people’s for far too long.

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This book was a wild ride from start to finish. My heart truly aches for Jeannette. And as someone who grew up watching iCarly, not knowing that she was going through such horrific things really makes you think about how much we don’t know about people. 

Such a powerful read that fully deserves all the attention it has been getting. 

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