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Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis

207 reviews

abbyschafer's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Viola Davis’ Finding Me is unlike any celebrity memoir I have ever read. Her life journey is an incredible, harrowing tale of being Black and poor in America. Finding Me reads as the next generation of Maya Angelou’s Why the Caged Bird Sings. 

Audio book review: Read by Viola Davis herself, the audio book brings another layer of empathy and emotion into the story and helps the stories of her childhood connect to the Viola Davis we know from film and television before she makes the connection herself in the writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Racial slurs, Child death, Racism, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Abortion, Death of parent, and Infertility

laurenology's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Racism, Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Abortion, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Drug abuse

sparringego8's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Abortion, Alcohol, Drug use, Cancer, Child death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pregnancy, Racism, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Grief, and Addiction

hahibbard's review against another edition

dark inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

Hard to listen to in the first half due to the darkness of Viola’s childhood. A little repetitive in some places and sometimes hard to track the timeline. The last few chapters and reflections were great and insightful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual assault, Child abuse, Abortion, and Addiction

kenziburke's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Abortion, Alcohol, and Racism

Minor: Drug abuse

_evyn_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad

5.0

Viola is a true artist. She's so vulnerable and open about her life in this book. She talks about her complex relationships with the acting industry, her family, partners, and most importantly, herself. I love the way she explains her struggles because there are moments I can relate to and moments I could not have truly understood until her depiction and imagery and rawness. You can feel sympathy the world over for another's problems and trauma but if you don't  REALLY understand what they're going through and how they're affected, you won't have empathy. Without empathy, you tend to listen to stories only for what you can relate to instead of what is actually being said. With empathy, you still have a bias about the more important aspects of the history, but it doesn't stop you from hearing and (hopefully) understanding the whole truth. I felt with her every time she had to step back and question a barrier in her life. She made me think about the choices I've made and what my future could look like (not in relation to her life, but the questions she asks herself or that others ask her, prompted me to try to answer them for myself). 
Would highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Abortion, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Rape

hannah_and_her_stories's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Alcoholism, Cancer, Racism, Violence, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Death, Animal death, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Classism, Death of parent, Drug use, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Bullying, Cursing, Grief, Medical trauma, and Addiction

Moderate: Abortion, Vomit, Terminal illness, Animal death, Misogyny, and Incest

readandfindout's review against another edition

emotional inspiring medium-paced

4.5

Style/writing: 4.5 stars
Themes: 4.5 stars
Perspective: 4.5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Child abuse, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Rape, Animal death, Bullying, Alcoholism, Death, Infertility, Emotional abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Abortion

miayukino's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Death of parent, Abortion, Terminal illness, Grief, Cancer, Classism, Racism, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Medical content, Bullying, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Misogyny, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, and Blood

Minor: Cursing

eni_iilorak's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad

5.0

This is not a typical celebrity memoir. It's a story about survival and finding a voice.

Listen to the audiobook! It is outstanding, and hearing the story told in Viola Davis' own, expressive voice adds a lot to the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Infertility, Medical content, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, Incest, Racial slurs, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Classism, Addiction, Bullying, Cursing, Death of parent, Racism, Sexual assault, and Abortion

Moderate: Drug abuse, Grief, Slavery, Cancer, Infidelity, and Bullying