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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
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emotional
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Overall, Dawn O’Porter’s Life In Pieces is a good book. It’s nice to read and see lockdown from a different perspective, in my case completely opposite. Although there was a lot about drugs and alcohol, I learned quite a bit about things I didn’t realise other people saw.
Great book :)
Great book :)
O'Porter is a brilliant writer and wonderfully down-to-earth. I howled with laughter at the anecdote about the cucumber and aloe vera face mask! There is great comfort and camaraderie to be found in "Life In Pieces". Whilst there is humour and honesty, there are also moments of genuine poignancy. It's life-affirming, inspiring and made me feel seen. Perfect second lockdown antidote!
Bit weird reading someone else's reflection on their lockdown experience when I'm still in lock down.
I picked this up on kindle expecting something light to read - some funny musings on parenting in lockdown. Whilst Dawn's humour reigns throughout this is also a beautiful exploration on grief and coping with it during a year unlike any other.
A pretty entertaining iso-diary. How I imagine my lockdown would have gone down had I been a successful writer living in LA with my actor husband.
I seem to be in the minority but I did not enjoy this book. This book felt so self indulgent and at a few points the level of privilege were quite little hard to swallow given the global crisis taking place at the time (and that still continues).
Note: I received an advanced copy of Life in Pieces from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Note: I received an advanced copy of Life in Pieces from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
I’ve never been a huge fan of autobiographies. Ever. But O’porters had the perfect balance of humour and depressing reality without ever being self indulging. I laughed so hard at some of these chapters and I genuinely think this book will either make you want to be Dawn O’porter or be absolute best friends with her. I loved it.
I listened to the audiobook version of this and I really enjoyed the content of Life In Pieces, it was at times hysterically funny and extremely sad. I only really have one criticism and that’s the delivery itself, I feel O’Porter didn’t put enough enthusiasm into it considering it’s her own words. Periodically the delivery was flat and at times she sounded bored.