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Wow! I just finished this book and I'm bottled up with so many emotions. I wouldn't have imagined what Jennette was going through. I'm proud of how raw she was in her memoir. I'm proud of all the steps she has taken to better herself. The book contrary to the title, has made me appreciate my mother more. How she let me grow up and find myself freely, How she never forced me to do anything I didn't like. I'll forever be grateful for her. This was my first memoir and I throughly enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to reading more autobiographies and memoirs!
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Jennette shows the inside look into being the child of a narcissist and a child star. She is candid about her experiences and how complex the emotions from parental abuse are.
“I’m over it. I’ve become a bitter person and I’m resigned to that fact. I can’t change my circumstances, so why try to change who I’ve become as a result of them? I’m done being a good sport. I resent being a good sport.”
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a good read, a inside look into a child actor and the mental trauma she went through and still went through in adulthood.
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i downloaded the epub immediately after watching jack edwards’ review of this because i was so intrigued by what he said about jennette’s writing style in the book. the way she wrote about each stage of her life was so vivid it’s more of reliving her experiences rather than recounting them, which made the book such an immersive experience. in most memoirs i’ve read, they came across to me as just simply learning about their life and their message, but with mccurdy, each chapter packed a punch so deep it’s like i was in her shoes. the humor, wit, and pain woven altogether was masterfully done, it’s no wonder this book is critically acclaimed. i personally loved reading how her emotional intelligence developed during her years as a forced-to-be-reclusive kid to when she made peace with the reality of her and her mother’s relationship. you can feel how raw and authentic each paragraph with how they were written with such vulnerability and i can imagine it wasn’t an easy task to achieve; sometimes people apply an overuse of adjectives in an attempt to incite empathy and pity on readers but each sentence of mccurdy’s was just so direct, there’s no question that everything was intentional and real. it isn’t even up for debate: 5 stars all the way.
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