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Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
💛“Please don't ever apologize for having a reasonable response to something difficult.”💚
🎧AUDIOBOOK REVIEW🎧
🧠synopsis:
Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present.
Polley contemplates stories from her own life ranging from stage fright to high-risk childbirth to endangerment and more. After struggling with the aftermath of a concussion, Polley met a specialist who gave her wholly new advice: to recover from a traumatic injury, she had to retrain her mind to strength by charging towards the very activities that triggered her symptoms. With riveting clarity, she shows the power of applying that same advice to other areas of her life in order to find a path forward, a way through. Rather than live in a protective crouch, she had to run towards the danger.
📺thoughts:
I watched Canadian actress Sarah Polley as a kid in the Tales from Avonlea and Ramona Quimby screen adaptions and just loved her! I heard about her memoir on the Books Unbound podcast. She has lead a challenging life from losing her Mom at a young age to cancer, to having surgery for scoliosis. What most came at the perfect time for me as a reader was listening to her recovery from a concussion. I've had an extremely similar experience after a neurologic occurrence and it hit me right in the feels and I found it so inspirational. She writes beautifully. This is one of those essay collections I'd of course suggest to anyone who enjoys celebrity memoirs but also for a wider audience as her stories and dialogue really are humanizing and vulnerable to read about in an encouraging way.
5/5 ⭐️
7 hrs, 56 min 🎧
🎧AUDIOBOOK REVIEW🎧
🧠synopsis:
Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present.
Polley contemplates stories from her own life ranging from stage fright to high-risk childbirth to endangerment and more. After struggling with the aftermath of a concussion, Polley met a specialist who gave her wholly new advice: to recover from a traumatic injury, she had to retrain her mind to strength by charging towards the very activities that triggered her symptoms. With riveting clarity, she shows the power of applying that same advice to other areas of her life in order to find a path forward, a way through. Rather than live in a protective crouch, she had to run towards the danger.
📺thoughts:
I watched Canadian actress Sarah Polley as a kid in the Tales from Avonlea and Ramona Quimby screen adaptions and just loved her! I heard about her memoir on the Books Unbound podcast. She has lead a challenging life from losing her Mom at a young age to cancer, to having surgery for scoliosis. What most came at the perfect time for me as a reader was listening to her recovery from a concussion. I've had an extremely similar experience after a neurologic occurrence and it hit me right in the feels and I found it so inspirational. She writes beautifully. This is one of those essay collections I'd of course suggest to anyone who enjoys celebrity memoirs but also for a wider audience as her stories and dialogue really are humanizing and vulnerable to read about in an encouraging way.
5/5 ⭐️
7 hrs, 56 min 🎧