You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
a_chickletz 's review for:
Where Am I Now? True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame
by Mara Wilson
As a child I enjoyed watching Mara Wilson play characters that I always seemed to identify with, or characters that I was grasping onto. We both were young, had brown hair, and had pale complexions... so there was that, but her characters were always girls that had depth. They were girls that were emotional, happy, big readers, big hearts, questioned things...
Reading this book it made me understand how her life as a child actress was and how she ended up getting some of those roles I enjoyed so much. There is also the fact that she struggled with finding out her identity post acting.
The part that really got me is here chapter about her struggle with OCD and anxiety. Reading it almost brought me to tears, not only because she opened up about something personal... but that, again, I shared something in common with her. I too have anxiety and OCD and just reading what she was picking up or identifying with as a child was what I was going through. I never knew that what I had was anxiety or OCD, and it waxed and waned (which is apparently what it's famous for doing) but I recognized so many things and I wish that in a strange way I would have known her so that we could be there for one another. Thankfully she was diagnosed when she got older (as was I), but the chapter still affected me me greatly.
In the end, I loved her essays and I think she is a fab writer. I like that she speaks honestly, and from the heart, and that's all I'm expecting of her now.
Thank you Mara for a glimpse into your life and your past.
Reading this book it made me understand how her life as a child actress was and how she ended up getting some of those roles I enjoyed so much. There is also the fact that she struggled with finding out her identity post acting.
The part that really got me is here chapter about her struggle with OCD and anxiety. Reading it almost brought me to tears, not only because she opened up about something personal... but that, again, I shared something in common with her. I too have anxiety and OCD and just reading what she was picking up or identifying with as a child was what I was going through. I never knew that what I had was anxiety or OCD, and it waxed and waned (which is apparently what it's famous for doing) but I recognized so many things and I wish that in a strange way I would have known her so that we could be there for one another. Thankfully she was diagnosed when she got older (as was I), but the chapter still affected me me greatly.
In the end, I loved her essays and I think she is a fab writer. I like that she speaks honestly, and from the heart, and that's all I'm expecting of her now.
Thank you Mara for a glimpse into your life and your past.