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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
Tender, funny, vibrant and real. I was thoroughly impressed with Kate's voice. A honed professional through and through.
3.75 stars
A fun, light read (well, mostly light. The parts about the daughter she gave up for adoption get kind of heavy, but). Mulgrew is a predictably great narrator. But man, does she have terrible taste in men :P. I think I would have enjoyed a little more focus on her acting jobs than the romances, and especially some insight into Orange is the New Black, but overall it was a very enjoyable memoir. She certainly has had an interesting life!
A fun, light read (well, mostly light. The parts about the daughter she gave up for adoption get kind of heavy, but
Spoiler
there's a happy resolution
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
This was ok but it didn’t have any real depth to it. Mulgrew seemed to skip from one major life event to the next without any reflection. (Good or bad). She admits to being in love with her career which results in being self centered...which I did t mind because she calls herself out on it. But the whole book just didn’t feel real.
I have a bad habit of picking up memoirs that everyone raves about, and then very quickly dropping them into my DNF list. That, in and of itself, speaks volumes for Born with Teeth, because not only did I finish it, but I tore through it in 3 days.
I love Kate as Red on Orange is the New Black, but it's her role as Captain Janeway, the first female starship captain to lead a series, that captured my heart. I love her gumption and sass on Voyager, and I always felt like that came through from the actress as much as being a part of the character. This book confirms those suspicions.
Kate is irreverent and poignant all at once. Her writing flowed more like a novel than an autobiography, and her way with words was elegant and sophisticated. Not all of the events of her life were wildly extraordinary, yet even the simpler moments were captivating and emotional. Reading of her trials and heartbreak was moving, and difficult at times.
The only sticking point for me were a few moments when I wanted to shake her for the way she behaved with her love interests/the way she allowed them to behave with her. Although there were moments in the book when I felt like it jumped a bit too much, overall, the narrative flowed naturally.
I love Kate as Red on Orange is the New Black, but it's her role as Captain Janeway, the first female starship captain to lead a series, that captured my heart. I love her gumption and sass on Voyager, and I always felt like that came through from the actress as much as being a part of the character. This book confirms those suspicions.
Kate is irreverent and poignant all at once. Her writing flowed more like a novel than an autobiography, and her way with words was elegant and sophisticated. Not all of the events of her life were wildly extraordinary, yet even the simpler moments were captivating and emotional. Reading of her trials and heartbreak was moving, and difficult at times.
The only sticking point for me were a few moments when I wanted to shake her for the way she behaved with her love interests/the way she allowed them to behave with her. Although there were moments in the book when I felt like it jumped a bit too much, overall, the narrative flowed naturally.
This was one of those audiobooks that I just wanted to keep listening to and listening to. Not only is Kate Mulgrew a great actress, she is a fantastic writer and her narration of this audiobook really brought the story to life. I love celebrity memoirs (especially in summer) and this one is a cut above most of them.
Enjoyable book ~ read to me by the author ~ that always adds an extra layer of entertainment.
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
I know a lot of people who don’t like Kate Mulgrew. I do like her, ever since Ryan’s Hope. Her memoir is much more interesting, better written and less self aggrandizing than most of the memoirs I have read by male actors and musicians.
There is a wonderful moment at the very end that made me immediately want to read her next memoir, which I didn’t even know existed.
There is a wonderful moment at the very end that made me immediately want to read her next memoir, which I didn’t even know existed.