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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
I appreciated the nuance here but can’t say it will stick with me. Hard to rate a memoir!
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
I read memoirs to learn about people’s lives and experiences that are very different than my own. This book provides a perspective on the Army, marriage and motherhood. It’s a quiet memoir and at times a little slow or repetitive. I appreciate Gorrindo’s vulnerability and bravery to publish this book. I am heartened by the love she has for her husband, children and her friends (the wives).
reflective
medium-paced
It was interesting to see the differences in opinion between wife and husband. However she is the one amkaing all the sacrifices just because her husband decided he wanted to go off and play war. Until the last hour of the book i thought she was going to leave him and i was going to be happy for her because she would have chosen what she wants in her live over her husband. But then she had kids and at the end they have been in the army for like 10 years and are still in it even though she didn’t even want him to reenlist after the first round truly sad how she puts him above everything but he would choose the army over her any day
As a current Army officer’s wife and an Army officer myself, I enjoyed and could appreciate the perspective in this book and have recommended it to a few of my friends who are “the wives” in our worlds. *I would just want to side note that my husband is a commander and has been for the last 3 years in a BCT at Fort Lewis, and he doesn’t just stay on rear-d during deployments and do SFRG powerpoints and scream OPSEC at people so please don’t think all officers/commanders are like this in the Army based on this story!*
I could have done without the political stuff.. but I get it. This is a memoir after all and that’s part of her story.
I listened to this on audio at 2x speed and I did not feel it was monotone or bland as other people have been suggesting. I actually enjoy when authors read their own memoirs/nonfiction and I thought it was great personally. The time flew by listening and I finished all 11 or so hours in only a few days after having been in a little bit of a reading slump prior.
Thank you to Gallery/Scouts Press for an advance reader’s copy of this title!
I could have done without the political stuff.. but I get it. This is a memoir after all and that’s part of her story.
I listened to this on audio at 2x speed and I did not feel it was monotone or bland as other people have been suggesting. I actually enjoy when authors read their own memoirs/nonfiction and I thought it was great personally. The time flew by listening and I finished all 11 or so hours in only a few days after having been in a little bit of a reading slump prior.
Thank you to Gallery/Scouts Press for an advance reader’s copy of this title!
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
I have always been so interested in soldiers, the military and how relationships survive during war, deployment and after. This memoir helped illuminate that.
I was struck by the powerful relationships between women. The line “I practice marriage with these women” stuck out to me at the end. This is such a niche world, I liked being let it.
The end, when Trump was elected, it was interesting to hear how people in the military experienced that and responded to it. Their commander, who, at least in this story, so many of them disagreed with.
All in all, I really liked it.
I was struck by the powerful relationships between women. The line “I practice marriage with these women” stuck out to me at the end. This is such a niche world, I liked being let it.
The end, when Trump was elected, it was interesting to hear how people in the military experienced that and responded to it. Their commander, who, at least in this story, so many of them disagreed with.
All in all, I really liked it.
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
a very intimate and close-up view of this life. Primarily the interior world of these women and the stresses they live through. There’s also tangential perspective on the stresses that the army guys live with and through and some indication of how it changes them and why, perhaps, they face various difficulties upon returning home. Reading this the weekend that 2 ex-combat vets committed violent acts hit differently.
Simone's tale of the trials and tribulations of being a military spouse is so captivating. She's also a gem of a human!