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wilwheaton 's review for:
Where Am I Now? True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame
by Mara Wilson
Mara Wilson is a delightful storyteller. I felt like she wrote this book just for me, and I cried a lot while I was reading it.
But you don't need to be an adrift adult who was a famous kid (like me) to fall in love with her stories and the people in them. Mara is almost 20 years younger than me, but the stories she told about growing up weird, sensitive, and filled with anxiety could have come from my own childhood -- and that doesn't even take into account the whole famous child actor thing.
I literally just finished Where Am I Now?, and I have a lot of feelings that I need to process. I suspect I'll be processing them for awhile, because that's what a good book, written by a talented author, will do to a person.
But you don't need to be an adrift adult who was a famous kid (like me) to fall in love with her stories and the people in them. Mara is almost 20 years younger than me, but the stories she told about growing up weird, sensitive, and filled with anxiety could have come from my own childhood -- and that doesn't even take into account the whole famous child actor thing.
I literally just finished Where Am I Now?, and I have a lot of feelings that I need to process. I suspect I'll be processing them for awhile, because that's what a good book, written by a talented author, will do to a person.