rachael_perry 's review for:

The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King

4.0

informative slow-paced

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This biography started out really well. I listened to the audiobook (highly recommend), and got to the end of The Neighborhood and looked down and saw I still had about six hours. I was a little concerned, but was game for the rest, not knowing there was more after The Neighborhood. Turns out, that second half was a bit of a slog to get through, and it was terribly disorganized. The book wasn’t finished before it was published, in my opinion. It needed more editing and more organization. There was an entire paragraph that was repeated, though not verbatim. It felt like the author had a page or word count to reach and didn’t know how to do it without the repetition. The audiobook has an interview with the author at the end, and he admitted he had a bit of a writing past, but this was his first book. I guess connections help when you push hard enough to get a project out. 🤷‍♀️

Otherwise, I was pleased to discover that Fred Roger’s was exactly the man I hoped he would be in real life.