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Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories
by Kelly Ripa
I REALLY loved this book! Before picking it up, I was sort of familiar with Kelly, but I didn’t know a lot about her career or history, and was worried I would be disinterested. But I was SO invested in every one of her stories.
I definitely recommend it on audio to hear her tell her stories in her own voice. And Mark’s little interjections were hilarious!
This is not a memoir as it doesn’t go through her life auto-biographically. It’s an essay collection that covers seemingly random topics, but I thought she brought in some nice through lines to tie them all together.
I didn’t know a lot of the history about her time with Regis, and, if you’re looking for a tell-all about that, you won’t get it here. I was really sad to read through other reviews and see people give her low ratings because she didn’t either give him all the credit for her career (which seems completely unwarranted, and she was more than respectful in how she portrayed him in that essay) or drag him through the mud. Instead, this book is mostly stories about her family told in what I thought was a very authentic way.
I definitely recommend it on audio to hear her tell her stories in her own voice. And Mark’s little interjections were hilarious!
This is not a memoir as it doesn’t go through her life auto-biographically. It’s an essay collection that covers seemingly random topics, but I thought she brought in some nice through lines to tie them all together.
I didn’t know a lot of the history about her time with Regis, and, if you’re looking for a tell-all about that, you won’t get it here. I was really sad to read through other reviews and see people give her low ratings because she didn’t either give him all the credit for her career (which seems completely unwarranted, and she was more than respectful in how she portrayed him in that essay) or drag him through the mud. Instead, this book is mostly stories about her family told in what I thought was a very authentic way.