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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
Good audio book. The quality of the essays is uneven, but none are less than ok and many are very good. Worth listening to.
MLP writes as movingly to one of her goats as she does to the men who have broken her down and built her up. It's so beautiful
adventurous
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
funny
inspiring
fast-paced
It's no secret that I'm utterly obsessed with Mary-Louise Parker. I have been for a while.
The best way I could describe reading this book would be hanging around someone's friend group and witnessing them referring to a very personal inside joke that you took no part of whatsoever, but still managing to find it funny regardless.
The best way I could describe reading this book would be hanging around someone's friend group and witnessing them referring to a very personal inside joke that you took no part of whatsoever, but still managing to find it funny regardless.
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
I'd give it 4.5 if I could. Did this as an audiobook on my long drive to DC and back -- I highly recommend experiencing it this way. Mary-Louise Parker, herself, is the reader and there is great pleasure in the way her trained actor's voice can bring out the nuance of her stories, which are written as letters to the various men in her life (including those in her family, her friends, her lovers, and the random taxi driver who picked her up on a bad day.) The most powerful ones are those that include her father (though I also loved the one to her pastor -- another kind of father, I suppose!). The problem with this book is you spend much of it marveling that one person could have been bestowed with so many gifts -- hardly seems fair!
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
I listened to this book on the advice of a friend (thanks, Tena!) and I am so glad I did. I'm sure I would have enjoyed reading it, but I loved listening to it. Listening to this book made me want to write letters and have long conversations with people. It's been such a long time since I listened to an audiobook, and now I'm wondering why I waited so long.
emotional
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slow-paced
This is a book of letters to men in Parker’s life, who she refers to by nicknames associated with their accompanying anecdotes. Some of these letters stood out more than others to me (“Dear Cerberus,” I recall, and “Dear Lifeline,” and “Dear Emergency Contact,” and “Dear Neighbor”), but all of them had at least a handful of beautiful moments and lines, and at least one moment or line that didn’t quite land. Something about the writing style didn’t grip me and keep me gripped all the way through. I did like the window this book opened on Parker’s life—she’s truly had a very interesting and special past, and built many strong, good relationships. I would give this a 2.5 to a 3.