Reviews with content warning for Domestic abuse - Love, Pamela

The beginning was really interesting, but it goes downhill in the second half. Talking about the authors and poets she's read and starting the chapters with quotes really becomes obnoxious. Maybe she is overcompensating for people thinking she's stupid (she's not) but it just felt like a 'holier than thou' flex with the literary stuff. Sometimes she says so much without saying anything.

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sare1125's review

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emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

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megnut's review against another edition

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hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.5

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julia_jojo17's review

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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denijaaa_s's review

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75

Bērni nebeidz mani pārsteigt. Viņi ir pieticīgi, strādīgi un nopietni. Dilans ir ārkārtīgi jūtīgs un dziļdomīgs. Viņš patur savas jūtas pie sevis, bet izpauž tās mūzikā, tomēr ir samērā noslēgts cilvēks. Viņam patīk daudz gulēt, un viņš visā saskata "lielo bildi". Es ieinteresēti viņu vēroju - Dilans vēl paveiks lielas lietas.

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pamela andersone ir neticami spēcīga sieviete, un es brīnos un varu izjust bezgala lielu cieņu, ka, pēc visa, īpaši bērnībā, piedzīvotā, tas pamelu nav salauzis un viņa ir turpinājusi savu iesākto un atradusi sevi. daudz ko var pārdomāt pēc šīs grāmatas izlasīšanas.

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adventurous challenging hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

Prior to listening to this audiobook, the only thing I knew about Pamela was her face and that she played on Baywatch. I was delightfully surprised to learn how humble and free Pamela is. The memoir touches on a few traumas in her life, but her overall mindset seems to lie with an appreciation of herself, her life, and everything around her. I appreciated her unabashed view on sex – the lack of shame surrounding sex is refreshing – and the way she sees beauty in most things.

A lot of things in Pamela’s life, at least in the way it is written in this memoir, appear to be handed to her or just work out so well. Because I don’t know anything about Pamela outside of this book, it’s hard to know if this is how smoothly everything truly went for her or if this is mostly written this way because of her reliance on manifestation. She does describe some of the abuse from Tommy, but it comes across as very soft around the edges.

I loved reading about how much love Pamela has towards her boys. It made me want to move to the beach for some before-school surfing.

One of the things I’ve been enjoying with memoirs, in general, is the unapologetic presentation of self. Reading about people who are, or appear to be, living their lives as their true selves is refreshing and inspiring.

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hails_reads's review

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challenging dark funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad

4.75

love love love

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dakdoesbooks's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad

3.75

I have a lot of conflicting thoughts that I need to summarize…

1) I absolutely loved the sections where Pamela talks about her non-profit work and her activism. I wish that more celebrities used their platforms for this kind of work.
2)I could not stand the way she excused male behavior in her life. To each their own of course but her lack of criticism for the men that hurt her and others was jarring for me considering the forgiveness implied by her words.

Overall, this book was really well written and I think parts of Pamela’s story are really powerful. She captures her own spirit in a way that does her justice and shines a light on her humanity. Docked off a star-ish because I wished for her to reflect more deeply on her privileges in life as a star and I wish there had been some more discussion around the harmful men she encounters. But, it’s her book, not mine! I’m still a fan and love her honesty, mission, and nature.

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