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lexyt2's review
5.0
From the beginning, Beverly Jackson's Loose Fish: A Memoir in Stories didn't read for me as a memoir but as a series of connected stories about a woman whose life has been both engrossing and well-lived. She grabbed the reigns and ran with them from an early age, often put in a position of instability on the home front.
Yet there is something about the stories that touches the personal in all of us - the desire to have a bigger life, the hope that we have something to say, the yearning to say "yes" more often than "no" to moments with an element of risk. To live life pushing fear off to the side and seeing it as a series of opportunities. Because Beverly sees opportunity in everything she does. She is innately curious. Her attitude towards life is never a "why" but a "why not", and for those who have been more trepidatious, Beverly's book shows us what we've missed while at the same time allowing us to live those moments through her. She is a very good writer.
Reading Beverly's book, I saw what it is to be fearless. She chooses whole-heartedly the interesting over the reliable, adventure over security, movement over mundane certainty that leaves us with things, but not dreams or ideas or tales to tell.
So be prepared for an adventurous ride. She is inspiring, to say the least, and I can hardly wait for her next book.
Yet there is something about the stories that touches the personal in all of us - the desire to have a bigger life, the hope that we have something to say, the yearning to say "yes" more often than "no" to moments with an element of risk. To live life pushing fear off to the side and seeing it as a series of opportunities. Because Beverly sees opportunity in everything she does. She is innately curious. Her attitude towards life is never a "why" but a "why not", and for those who have been more trepidatious, Beverly's book shows us what we've missed while at the same time allowing us to live those moments through her. She is a very good writer.
Reading Beverly's book, I saw what it is to be fearless. She chooses whole-heartedly the interesting over the reliable, adventure over security, movement over mundane certainty that leaves us with things, but not dreams or ideas or tales to tell.
So be prepared for an adventurous ride. She is inspiring, to say the least, and I can hardly wait for her next book.
orlando55's review
5.0
From the beginning, Beverly Jackson's Loose Fish: A Memoir in Stories didn't read for me as a memoir but as a series of connected stories about a woman whose life has been both engrossing and well-lived. She grabbed the reigns and ran with them from an early age, often put in a position of instability on the home front.
Yet there is something about the stories that touches the personal in all of us - the desire to have a bigger life, the hope that we have something to say, the yearning to say "yes" more often than "no" to moments with an element of risk. To live life pushing fear off to the side and seeing it as a series of opportunities. Because Beverly sees opportunity in everything she does. She is innately curious. Her attitude towards life is never a "why" but a "why not", and for those who have been more trepidatious, Beverly's book shows us what we've missed while at the same time allowing us to live those moments through her. She is a very good writer.
Reading Beverly's book, I saw what it is to be fearless. She chooses whole-heartedly the interesting over the reliable, adventure over security, movement over mundane certainty that leaves us with things, but not dreams or ideas or tales to tell.
So be prepared for an adventurous ride. She is inspiring, to say the least, and I can hardly wait for her next book.
Yet there is something about the stories that touches the personal in all of us - the desire to have a bigger life, the hope that we have something to say, the yearning to say "yes" more often than "no" to moments with an element of risk. To live life pushing fear off to the side and seeing it as a series of opportunities. Because Beverly sees opportunity in everything she does. She is innately curious. Her attitude towards life is never a "why" but a "why not", and for those who have been more trepidatious, Beverly's book shows us what we've missed while at the same time allowing us to live those moments through her. She is a very good writer.
Reading Beverly's book, I saw what it is to be fearless. She chooses whole-heartedly the interesting over the reliable, adventure over security, movement over mundane certainty that leaves us with things, but not dreams or ideas or tales to tell.
So be prepared for an adventurous ride. She is inspiring, to say the least, and I can hardly wait for her next book.
avitalgadcykman's review
5.0
This memoir takes you on a journey you don't want to end thanks to the sharp insights into the narrator's psyche and life, and into the way the childhood, the family and the constant dislocation act upon her choices. The longing for real friendship and love and the suffering from loss accompany you through the book, but there are also humorous or celeb-involving tales that lighten this journey. I enjoyed it a lot!
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