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A review by brookeisbooked
Going There by Katie Couric
4.0
This memoir is everything you'd want it to be. Katie Couric has had a long, successful career, and she's ready to tell all. This audiobook was over 15 hours long, and I enjoyed every minute of it. She talks about her career, her personal life, and gives all the name drops you could hope for.
I will never not love hearing how prominent journalists got their start. Katie Couric doesn't shy away from discussing the boys' club of the journalism industry and times she didn't get what she deserved. As expected and anticipated, she talks all about Matt Lauer. She also brings up both Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew. Katie has seen and heard a lot.
She talks a lot about her personal life as well. She talks briefly about how she found out she was Jewish and how her mom hid her Judaism so they could assimilate.
Katie has unfortunately lost multiple loved ones to cancer. I was fully crying during the chapters about her husband's cancer diagnosis and her sister's cancer as well.
What I admire most about this memoir is how honest Katie Couric was. Throughout the book, she looks back at several interviews and reporting she has done and how looking back some of it doesn't hold up. She openly critiques herself and things she has said and done in the past and talks about what she wishes she did differently. I find that admirable as so many people are too stubborn to admit mistakes and learn from them.
I highly recommend this one on audio. Even though it's long, it has some elements that you wouldn't get from reading the physical book, including some audio clips from Katie's previous interviews.
CW: body issues/disordered eating, cancer, death of loved ones, sexual assault
I will never not love hearing how prominent journalists got their start. Katie Couric doesn't shy away from discussing the boys' club of the journalism industry and times she didn't get what she deserved. As expected and anticipated, she talks all about Matt Lauer. She also brings up both Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew. Katie has seen and heard a lot.
She talks a lot about her personal life as well. She talks briefly about how she found out she was Jewish and how her mom hid her Judaism so they could assimilate.
Katie has unfortunately lost multiple loved ones to cancer. I was fully crying during the chapters about her husband's cancer diagnosis and her sister's cancer as well.
What I admire most about this memoir is how honest Katie Couric was. Throughout the book, she looks back at several interviews and reporting she has done and how looking back some of it doesn't hold up. She openly critiques herself and things she has said and done in the past and talks about what she wishes she did differently. I find that admirable as so many people are too stubborn to admit mistakes and learn from them.
I highly recommend this one on audio. Even though it's long, it has some elements that you wouldn't get from reading the physical book, including some audio clips from Katie's previous interviews.
CW: body issues/disordered eating, cancer, death of loved ones, sexual assault