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My Love Story
by Tina Turner
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
My Love Story is Tina Turner’s memoir written in 2017 while in her late 70s. It’s not super long, it can be read in six or seven hours, and includes a handful of photographs throughout her life. The book begins with her wedding to her widow Erwin Bach at the age of 73, and dips backwards into childhood and eventually back to the present marriage and health struggles immediately after the wedding.
I’m so glad Tina Turner got to tell her story her way in her own words. I’m not surprised she had a ghostwriter, although apparently there are TWO ghostwriters, but the book stays in her voice for the most part. I didn’t know much at all about her before reading this memoir, mainly just knew her biggest hits but next to nothing about her personally.
This memoir felt like it was missing some of the magic that most memoirs have - maybe she held back, or didn’t reflect deeply enough, or I don’t know really it was just missing a spark for me. Still I enjoyed it and loved how her passion for her Buddhist faith infused her entire story even though she didn’t discover Buddhism until she was deep in her marriage to Ike. The epilogue was so heartbreaking to read, it happening to fresh to her near the time of this book’s publication, it was so hard to read. I listened to the audiobook version checked out from my library, and while I was disappointed it wasn’t narrated by Tina herself, the narrator did a fine job instilling that passion into the words.
I’m so glad Tina Turner got to tell her story her way in her own words. I’m not surprised she had a ghostwriter, although apparently there are TWO ghostwriters, but the book stays in her voice for the most part. I didn’t know much at all about her before reading this memoir, mainly just knew her biggest hits but next to nothing about her personally.
This memoir felt like it was missing some of the magic that most memoirs have - maybe she held back, or didn’t reflect deeply enough, or I don’t know really it was just missing a spark for me. Still I enjoyed it and loved how her passion for her Buddhist faith infused her entire story even though she didn’t discover Buddhism until she was deep in her marriage to Ike. The epilogue was so heartbreaking to read, it happening to fresh to her near the time of this book’s publication, it was so hard to read. I listened to the audiobook version checked out from my library, and while I was disappointed it wasn’t narrated by Tina herself, the narrator did a fine job instilling that passion into the words.