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Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat by Patricia Williams
3.0
Books like these are why I hate rating memoirs and don’t share memoir ratings beyond GoodReads.
It is not my place to judge the validity of the way Patricia Williams tells her life story. I found it so incredibly heartbreaking that it was often difficult to read/listen. But sadly, it’s her reality.
What kept me from loving this is that I went in expecting Ms. Pat’s typical style of taking hard-to-imagine situations and spinning them to be funny. Even typing that it sounds awful, but it’s her style. So when I dove into this one, I was expecting to laugh.
Reader, I did not laugh once. And not because she tried to be funny and wasn’t. But because she spoke her truth, and her truth was an absolutely unbelievable upbringing that she astonishingly found a way to overcome to get to where she is today. But I felt we sped past the part where she overcame and rose up. It was one short chapter.
I think I just read this at a time where I needed something light and this didn’t fit the bill. But I still recommend it as a perspective read, for sure.
It is not my place to judge the validity of the way Patricia Williams tells her life story. I found it so incredibly heartbreaking that it was often difficult to read/listen. But sadly, it’s her reality.
What kept me from loving this is that I went in expecting Ms. Pat’s typical style of taking hard-to-imagine situations and spinning them to be funny. Even typing that it sounds awful, but it’s her style. So when I dove into this one, I was expecting to laugh.
Reader, I did not laugh once. And not because she tried to be funny and wasn’t. But because she spoke her truth, and her truth was an absolutely unbelievable upbringing that she astonishingly found a way to overcome to get to where she is today. But I felt we sped past the part where she overcame and rose up. It was one short chapter.
I think I just read this at a time where I needed something light and this didn’t fit the bill. But I still recommend it as a perspective read, for sure.