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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
I really enjoyed this memoir, and aside from her characterization of Red in Orange is the New Black, I did not actually know this actor. She is also an excellent writer, and a woman with incredible self-confidence. I loved the chapters about her childhood and her perception of how babies just kept coming into the family, and how her mom came home from the hospital with the last one as well as a jar filled with amber liquid and her recently removed ovaries ! She handed her newborn off to a mother’s helper and immediately had a drink and labels the jar “from whence you came” and situated it on the mantel. That kind of humor and decisiveness worked for her daughter, Kate. Her mother’s practical encouragement gave her the confidence to find herself in acting and on she went. The relationship with Tessie is heartbreaking. Hearing about her professional life is interesting and shows the work it requires. I hope she will choose to write again. It would be great to hear her perspective on being part of the ensemble cast of OITNB as well as how things turn out for her in all the other parts of her life with her family and with her love life.
I loved the first half of Kate Mulgrew’s memoir. Absolutely loved it. The second half wasn’t bad, just kind of lost on me, ignorant as I am of Star Trek and caring as little as I do for most television. I admit I was hooked by the title, more than anything, and the plot mostly lives up to it. It’s worth mentioning that there’s a graphic description of sexual assault that I wasn’t at all prepared for.
This was a wonderfully candid look into the very normal life of a successful actress. Knowing her first and foremost as Captain Janeway, it was a surprise to see the depth and weight of her resume before Voyager. The writing is delightful, complex, and emotionally revealing. Listening to her narrate her own anecdotes adds fine detail to the pictures she paints.
This was a very enjoyable personal memoir. I'm a fan of Kate Mulgrew's and I went into this already liking her. In writing, Mulgrew comes across much the same as she does on screen: intelligent with a good sense of humor and a large ego. She is a born entertainer. I hope Mulgrew will write more. I would especially enjoy a memoir focused more on her professional life.
A funny, and often sad, look at one woman's unconventional and fascinating life.
Someday I will learn not to check out celebrity memoirs…..
Just amazing. What can I say, I feel so close to this incredible woman having read this, he love, her passion her hopes and dreams are so incredibly raw. She writes with such beauty, but doesn't ever omit anything that might make her look flawed, or vain, or self-obsessed. She is profoundly human. This book also really opened my eyes to Irish Catholic life in the 1950s and 60s America, where times were hard, families were big and infant mortality was still very present.
I cried and laughed with Kate in this book, and almost felt she was telling the story just for me. A rare gift.
I cried and laughed with Kate in this book, and almost felt she was telling the story just for me. A rare gift.
Strange to read an autobiography on someone you know virtually nothing about- only picked it up because it was on almost every must read memoir list. It was lovely though. Definitely recommend the audiobook as read by Kate Mulgrew.
3.5
The writing is really good, but I came to this book expecting more Janeway. I don't like yelling 'Why are you still with that man?' at the audiobook.
The writing is really good, but I came to this book expecting more Janeway. I don't like yelling 'Why are you still with that man?' at the audiobook.
Mulgrew writes beautifully. I really enjoyed this book.