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4.5 AVERAGE
4.5 AVERAGE
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Amazing memoir, well written, easy to digest. Emotional roller coaster but found myself cheering for Jennette throughout when she was getting herself back.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Eating disorder, Vomit, Death of parent
Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Gaslighting
Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment
Enjoyed it more than I expected. Went in only with the background she was in iCarly. The big statement id take away is you think you know what it’s like being a child celebrity but you really don’t know. This is a crazy honest and candid account of her childhood and coming of age. I appreciated that she used real names and did not hold back. The book structure also kept things interesting by dividing her life into little vignettes. Throughout the book even at the height of her celebrity she maintains her honest voice, really
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What will stick with me is the climax. The point when her mother has died, she loses a tooth and her boyfriend tells her he thinks he is Jesus. I mean it was a great climax that totally summed up the ruin her life was in
Enjoyed it
What will stick with me is the climax. The point when her mother has died, she loses a tooth and her boyfriend tells her he thinks he is Jesus. I mean it was a great climax that totally summed up the ruin her life was in
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I'm Glad My Mom Died is both darkly funny and heartbreaking. Jennette tells her story (and what a story it is) in a way that's weirdly both hilarious and the saddest thing you've ever heard in the same chapters. I found myself laughing out loud at some parts and yet in disbelief and horrified at others. It's so honest and so needed because so many times these kind of stories go untold, or the people that live them don't get to heal. It's insane what the entertainment industry does to these people, to children.
Listening to the audiobook definitely made the horrors more bearable and the funnies more funny. Jennette is a great narrator. I'm glad she seems to be doing well, and hope we see more of her writing in the future.
Listening to the audiobook definitely made the horrors more bearable and the funnies more funny. Jennette is a great narrator. I'm glad she seems to be doing well, and hope we see more of her writing in the future.
Écouté en audiobook par l’autrice. Je donnerais plutôt un 3.5. C’était bon, j’ai été dégoûtée à de nombreuses reprises, mais j’ai moins aimé l’attitude de Jennette lorsqu’elle raconte son histoire. Elle semblait si froide et détachée que je n’étais pas captivée par son histoire. J’imagine que ce n’était pas évident pour elle de lire à voix haute tous ses traumas. J’ai moins aimé aussi la forme du livre, divisé en de nombreux chapitres de quelques pages seulement.
A pushy stage mom, child abuse, eating disorders. Everything you'd expect from the memoir of a former child star...but really well done and honest and sad. I was (and am) rooting for her all the way.
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To me this is more of a 4.5, I absolutely loved this and her candidness throughout the entire story made this a super tough read.
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