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I am a Katie fan and I enjoyed learning more about her for sure. I wanted to know more about the time around Jays death, falling in love with Molner, and the Lauer/Currtly stuff. But I also respect that Katie’s life was and is very full and those stories are part of a much larger story.
I have so many thoughts on this book I’m not share I can share them all.
1. Why is it 600 pages? Seriously. Find an editor.
2. It’s BORING. Katie Couric has lead an interesting life and this is the most boring memoir I’ve ever read.
3. It is clear from the Matt Lauer chapter she really REALLY does not understand sexual harassment and the me too movement at all.
4. Why would you write you a burn book and say terrible things about people in the entertainment industry NOW? I guess she really doesn’t care about her career.
5. I’m not sure Katie Couric isn’t a terrible person.
6. There is no reason to read this all the interesting parts were printed in the press.
1. Why is it 600 pages? Seriously. Find an editor.
2. It’s BORING. Katie Couric has lead an interesting life and this is the most boring memoir I’ve ever read.
3. It is clear from the Matt Lauer chapter she really REALLY does not understand sexual harassment and the me too movement at all.
4. Why would you write you a burn book and say terrible things about people in the entertainment industry NOW? I guess she really doesn’t care about her career.
5. I’m not sure Katie Couric isn’t a terrible person.
6. There is no reason to read this all the interesting parts were printed in the press.
LOVED this one! The perfect mix of personal reflection and a park inside the high pressure world of being a tv personality.
I was looking for more after finishing Season 2 of The Morning Show....I didn't quite get that. But its an easy read....and her honestly is appreciated. She seems to tell it all....if you're already a fan of hers, you'll probably really like this book. If you're indifferent, you'll probably stay that way.
Going There by Katie Couric is a nice read by one of the most influential female journalists of the last several decades. While Katie’s career has had many up’s and downs, this book mirrors that career.
On the upside, her recollection of her first marriage was heart-warming and heartbreaking. Her brutal honesty of the people that she worked with was often jaw dropping to read and she clearly doesn’t suffer fools lightly. Her stories of things that she has covered throughout her career was also pleasant to revisit, as to get her thoughts on those points in history.
The bad? It seemed like after TODAY, her career went downhill, but often because of the acts of others. I didn’t sense any accountability on her part, but a lot of blame at the feet of others. There were also times when I felt it didn’t read like a memoir or biography. Her experiences with Matt Lauer come to mind. While no one condones what he did and why he was released from NBC, by that point in time, Couric was long gone from working with him. It seemed that an inordinate amount of time was spent on that singular topic in this book.
The book is well written and is a quick read; but it would have been nice if maybe Ms. Couric could have taken just a bit more responsibility for her career choices and not blame so many others.
On the upside, her recollection of her first marriage was heart-warming and heartbreaking. Her brutal honesty of the people that she worked with was often jaw dropping to read and she clearly doesn’t suffer fools lightly. Her stories of things that she has covered throughout her career was also pleasant to revisit, as to get her thoughts on those points in history.
The bad? It seemed like after TODAY, her career went downhill, but often because of the acts of others. I didn’t sense any accountability on her part, but a lot of blame at the feet of others. There were also times when I felt it didn’t read like a memoir or biography. Her experiences with Matt Lauer come to mind. While no one condones what he did and why he was released from NBC, by that point in time, Couric was long gone from working with him. It seemed that an inordinate amount of time was spent on that singular topic in this book.
The book is well written and is a quick read; but it would have been nice if maybe Ms. Couric could have taken just a bit more responsibility for her career choices and not blame so many others.
Some interesting and depressing snippets about the news media but Katie sure loves herself and still throws her white privilege in her reader’s face. I never get her sense of humor - having her picture taken smelling Billy Joel’s underwear. She might want to stop using the phrase that she and Matt “were partners in crime”.
I’ll admit I’m usually in too much of a rush in the morning to watch morning shows, and I typically catch my local ones over the national ones due to how early it is. I remember learning bits and pieces about Katie Couric over the last several years. She truly bares it all in this memoir.
Her father was a journalist who had to choose another career to pay the bills for his family. As she grows up, Katie battles typical teen insecurities along with a serious eating disorder. Later, as she pursues the career of her dreams, she confronts sexism and being typecast. She also shares the time in her life at the height of her career when her husband passes away to colon cancer in his early 40s. Her daughters are only 6 and 2 at the time. A couple years later, her sister passes away, and Katie has to keep going for her girls and to hold her career together while also committing to cancer awareness (and even having a colonoscopy live on TV).
Katie later becomes the anchor of the CBS Evening News making history at the time. When she moves to 60 Minutes, she is not warmly welcomed by the boys club and powers that be. Her friendship with Matt Lauer is addressed, past and present. She candidly shares her path towards another chance at love with her second marriage.
While I didn’t know much about Katie Couric before, she does “go there,” admitting many mistakes. She’s unapologetically herself, and this book gave me more insight as to why.
I received a gifted copy.
Many of my reviews can also be found on my blog: www.jennifertarheelreader.com and instagram: www.instagram.com/tarheelreader
Her father was a journalist who had to choose another career to pay the bills for his family. As she grows up, Katie battles typical teen insecurities along with a serious eating disorder. Later, as she pursues the career of her dreams, she confronts sexism and being typecast. She also shares the time in her life at the height of her career when her husband passes away to colon cancer in his early 40s. Her daughters are only 6 and 2 at the time. A couple years later, her sister passes away, and Katie has to keep going for her girls and to hold her career together while also committing to cancer awareness (and even having a colonoscopy live on TV).
Katie later becomes the anchor of the CBS Evening News making history at the time. When she moves to 60 Minutes, she is not warmly welcomed by the boys club and powers that be. Her friendship with Matt Lauer is addressed, past and present. She candidly shares her path towards another chance at love with her second marriage.
While I didn’t know much about Katie Couric before, she does “go there,” admitting many mistakes. She’s unapologetically herself, and this book gave me more insight as to why.
I received a gifted copy.
Many of my reviews can also be found on my blog: www.jennifertarheelreader.com and instagram: www.instagram.com/tarheelreader
I don’t rate nonfiction so this is unrated, but I really enjoyed this. Katie Couric is funny and also thinks pretty highly of herself, so she kind of reminded me of myself a bit lol. She just always kept blaming ABC and CBS for being so cutthroat without being super clear that she was also extremely cutthroat. I learned a lot about timelines of historical events I feel like, and just everything that goes into being on the morning news. This was the perfect length, as I was waiting for the big things of her husbands death and Matt Lauer, and she spent a good amount of time on both. Enjoyed her narrating her own audiobook.
What a great overview of Katie's career and her interactions with notable events over the last 30 years or so including 9/11, school shootings, political interviews including Sarah Palin and Laura Bush. She shared times of incredible loss of her first husband and sister to cancer and the variety of romantic and professional relationships she's had along the way. It was interesting to hear her thoughts on the industry at a time where women were still breaking their way into the reporting sphere. She touched on her relationship with Matt Lauer and her daughter discovering her late husband's obsession with the Civil War. The audiobook was especially entertaining as audio footage from some interviews were included. At the very end she noted how when she posts a video or photo of herself on IG, someone once commented "wow, she got old." and at the end of the book, she finishes, "aren't I lucky."