A review by bookish_manda
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

2.0

Matthew McConaughey’s memoir, Greenlights was a weird book. One of my favorite genres to read are memoires. Especially memoires read by the author. Although McConaughey narrated this audiobook, I was immediately uncomfortable with McConaughey’s forced and over dramatic narration. I also found McConaughey to be too crude at times. In addition to all of this, he shared some childhood trauma and abuse, but refused to recognize and label it as abuse. In fact, at the end of the memoir, McConaughey glorifies the abusive behavior, and even thanked his parents. He outright doesn’t denies that it was abuse. 

This book just wasn’t for me. I can see why other people would like it, but I really struggled with getting through this one. 
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