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4.0 AVERAGE
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Honestly, I picked this up a while ago and put it down because Katie came across as very unlikable. I had no opinion of her before the book. Only that she was a news anchor for a major network. I picked the book back up last week and finished it! My no opinion about Kate turned into a not so good one
I have to admit I was disappointed by this autobiography. I've always admired Katie Couric and her incredible talent as a journalist - warm but tough, "perky" yet hard-hitting. However, I felt like the more I read, the meaner she got. :/ I really enjoyed reading about Katie's family life as she was growing up, her early career, and her marriage to Jay. I found her to be quite vulnerable in sharing how she didn't think she handled his death well in many aspects. But after that, as she cycled through jobs and men, it all just felt so self-serving and unnecessarily critical of some she didn't have to be critical of. She discussed her money and expensive homes and trips a lot, and insulted her kids' nanny who, had she not been around, Katie couldn't have had a lot of those trips and opportunities for famous interviews. She seems happy and settled now (toward end of the book), and her kids seem amazing, so she obviously did something right. I guess maybe sometimes having an image of someone in your head can be quite different than the real them.
Thank you Hachette Audio for the free review audiobook of Going There. While this is a longer book, it flew by as I listened to Katie Couric tell me about her life. I really appreciated getting to know more about her and also seeing how she looks back on things differently from a 2021 lens.
As the title indicates - Katie doesn’t hesitate to “go there” - whether it’s sharing about her private life (did you know she once went on a date with Larry King??) or her successes and failures in her professional life. For me, that openness is what really makes a compelling memoir.
As the title indicates - Katie doesn’t hesitate to “go there” - whether it’s sharing about her private life (did you know she once went on a date with Larry King??) or her successes and failures in her professional life. For me, that openness is what really makes a compelling memoir.
Needed a good non-fiction and Hannah recommended this one to me! I didn’t know much about Katie Couric and her work as a journalist (bad, I know!) but was interested to learn about that and so much more in this memoir? Autobiography? Either way she promised to go there and go there she did. I think that’s what kept me reading- because even though she spilled on some of the most pressing topics in history- mass tragedies such as school shootings, 9/11, the firing of her former co-anchor Matt Lauer, she did so with grace and the understanding that we’re all human beings. She’s had her fair share of awkward moments and slip-ups, most of them on-air and it just serves as a reminder that we’re all trying our best, even those who seem to look it on TV every morning.
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Interesting read {listen}. Narrated by Couric.
Hearing about Katie’s career was very interesting. I LOLed a few times, got misty eyed listening to her pay tribute to those in her life that had passed away or news stories that effected us all. Coming of age during the time of her later career in TV News, a lot of what she discussed she’d light on things I remember. There were parts that were graphic & caused me to fast forward several minutes (like details of the scandals that hit the news around the time of the me too movement). I don’t know if I would have read the whole book had I being reading it, but I did listen to 95% of it.
Hearing about Katie’s career was very interesting. I LOLed a few times, got misty eyed listening to her pay tribute to those in her life that had passed away or news stories that effected us all. Coming of age during the time of her later career in TV News, a lot of what she discussed she’d light on things I remember. There were parts that were graphic & caused me to fast forward several minutes (like details of the scandals that hit the news around the time of the me too movement). I don’t know if I would have read the whole book had I being reading it, but I did listen to 95% of it.
hopeful
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inspiring
reflective
medium-paced