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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
Finally finished! I really, really wanted to like this, because I really like Katharine Hepburn. And the beginning part of it was interesting--her family and growing up, getting started, etc.--and, of course, it's her reflecting back on it much, much later. But a lot of the rest was boring and/or disjointed. Some seemed like she was dictating--kind of conversational/stream of consciousness. Then there were some downright weird parts, like the chapter she wrote about one of her trips with a director "friend" (?) like it was a play, or the one about her needing eye surgery that's like a phone conversation, but you only hear her side of it. And, overall, I don't feel like, other than her early years, I really got to know that much about her. I'll be interested to read a more conventional biography of Hepburn to see how it compares.
An average autobiography by an incredibly intriguing movie star. She was an odd bird to be sure, and she knew it. Kate was very tongue in cheek about her strong personality and her period of being box office poison. There were a few topics I wish she had covered more thoroughly (like the box office poison), and the book was not completely chronological which was slightly annoying, but it was entertaining. I enjoyed her local references as I live close to Fenwick and she was a local celebrity.
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She is such and interesting woman and I really loved the parts of the book that were about her childhood... very enchanted.
I love Katherine Hepburn. Grew up watching her films, and hearing wonderfully audacious quotes that always had an air of independence and empowerment. I expected to love this from the first page, and I did. The overriding thing that I took away was just how wonderful Her family was and how much they played a role in her life. If I ever have children I want to reread this frequently as a parent to remember how a positive parent can spur a child on to great things. The one thing I hoped to get that I did not out of this book is any insider info on her relationship with Spencer Tracy. She does talk fondly of it, and it's certainly not her style to 'dish' so that is forgivable. Well done. Read it!
3.5 really... This was certainly interesting. Not only all the quirky stories she told... but how she told them. It is written as a conversation... Kate is sitting around with a cup of coffee telling you the stories she accumulated along the way. Lots of "But I was telling you about..." and "Oh where was I". Lots of fragments. Turns out this is endearing and I felt that I was able to hear the stories in that warbley voice of hers like she was speaking to me. It was fun. I gave it to my mother for christmas... guess I should give it back to her now!
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"Me" by Katharine Hepburn is a quirky, candid memoir written in her own sharp and witty voice. While some parts, like her account of her brother’s death, are deeply moving, the book’s uneven pacing and gaps in her story leave it feeling incomplete.
It took me a long time to get into this book because she wrote it as a stream of consciousness, and some of it didn't make sense. Incomplete thoughts, rambling, bits of conversation, bits of her own thoughts. Weirdly put together, but interesting once I got into it.