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4.51 AVERAGE
4.51 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
challenging
emotional
funny
sad
medium-paced
Generally not a fan of celebrity memoirs, but this was well done.
medium-paced
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
‘I’m Glad My Mom Died’ features the same theme all solid ones do: parental trauma. McCurdy explores how her childhood as an actor led to her years-long battles with alcoholism and eating disorders. She shares a very realistic, gradual path to recovery, complicated by jobs, shitty partners, and her mom’s actual death along the way.
I really enjoyed this book. It was a quick read. McCurdy’s straightforward, stream-of-consciousness writing was appealing. Her candor and dry wit were appreciated during her discussion of dark topics.
Recommend!
I really enjoyed this book. It was a quick read. McCurdy’s straightforward, stream-of-consciousness writing was appealing. Her candor and dry wit were appreciated during her discussion of dark topics.
Recommend!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Alcohol
Moderate: Sexual assault
Minor: Vomit
Yes, it's great. Yes Jennette McCurdy can write, but I still have some lingering questions, and obviously me thinking I'm entitled to the answers is part of the problem, but I'll still write them here. It seems clear that Jeannette's mother emotionally abused everyone around her. All Jeanette's brothers along with her father and even the grandparents seemed at the whims of her emotions. And later in the book we find out that only one of the boys was biologically Jennette's father's child. Did Jennette's mother's behavior change between children? Clearly Jennette was the favorite, but did her mother physically abuse her sons, or were they spared.
It seems still so soon in Jennette's healing journey for her to reflect on her young adulthood. She has some distance to look back on her childhood, but we don't get that for the more recent years.
It seems still so soon in Jennette's healing journey for her to reflect on her young adulthood. She has some distance to look back on her childhood, but we don't get that for the more recent years.
This memoir was amazing and heartbreaking. From her writing style changing throughout the different periods of her life to how it felt like I was watching a movie. I could not put this book down. A great voice to show the realities of child starts and the horrible shit many of them go through.