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A review by bella613
Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories by Kelly Ripa
medium-paced
2.0
It sounds like this is a fun book for people who grew up knowing Kelly Ripa and enjoy this type of humor, but it was not my cup of tea.
I didn’t find her funny at all, but she clearly thinks she is, which was a little off putting. The title is very suitable for the book— it was pretty long winded for the content you get out of it. I don’t want to be too harsh on her personally, since I had never heard her name before listening to it and didn’t have any sentimental connection to her (as it seems a lot of other reviewers did). But I have read and enjoyed plenty of story collections and memoirs by people I didn’t know much about. This one didn’t do the trick for me.
This book was recommended to me by spotify because I’d added several memoirs to my library (yes I know it’s not actually a memoir) and I decided to listen to it because other people said it was funny. It felt more like listening to a teenager self-deprecate to get compliments. Again, maybe it’s just someone else’s type of humor and not mine.
My mindset on relating to people tends to be more about how they think than what experiences they’ve had. Kelly didn’t feel relatable to me even though that’s clearly the goal of the book. Of course once I had started the book I was too stubborn to put it down. But for me, it wasn’t worth the listen.
I didn’t find her funny at all, but she clearly thinks she is, which was a little off putting. The title is very suitable for the book— it was pretty long winded for the content you get out of it. I don’t want to be too harsh on her personally, since I had never heard her name before listening to it and didn’t have any sentimental connection to her (as it seems a lot of other reviewers did). But I have read and enjoyed plenty of story collections and memoirs by people I didn’t know much about. This one didn’t do the trick for me.
This book was recommended to me by spotify because I’d added several memoirs to my library (yes I know it’s not actually a memoir) and I decided to listen to it because other people said it was funny. It felt more like listening to a teenager self-deprecate to get compliments. Again, maybe it’s just someone else’s type of humor and not mine.
My mindset on relating to people tends to be more about how they think than what experiences they’ve had. Kelly didn’t feel relatable to me even though that’s clearly the goal of the book. Of course once I had started the book I was too stubborn to put it down. But for me, it wasn’t worth the listen.