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viktoriya's review
5.0
I will be perfectly honest, I picked up this book without reading what it was really about. I assumed that since it is written by Joan Rivers it will be funny. I love her sense of humor, I get her jokes. I was looking forward to laughing at more of her famous one-liners.
Needless to say, this book is not about Joan being the "funny Joan". Written in the aftermath of her husband's suicide and after her business went belly up and she lost all of her job opportunities, one would expect this book to be the most depressing ever. It was a sad book, but at the same time it was a book about hope, about seeing the light at the end of a tunnel, about grief and love, about the power we have within us. I wish I had read this book back in 2009, when I lost my only sibling and my father. But even now, years after they are gone, I still found a lot of comfort in reading Joan's journey. As she says it herself, "I don't have a Ph.D., but I hold a different degree: I.B.T.I.A. - I've Been Through It All".
Needless to say, this book is not about Joan being the "funny Joan". Written in the aftermath of her husband's suicide and after her business went belly up and she lost all of her job opportunities, one would expect this book to be the most depressing ever. It was a sad book, but at the same time it was a book about hope, about seeing the light at the end of a tunnel, about grief and love, about the power we have within us. I wish I had read this book back in 2009, when I lost my only sibling and my father. But even now, years after they are gone, I still found a lot of comfort in reading Joan's journey. As she says it herself, "I don't have a Ph.D., but I hold a different degree: I.B.T.I.A. - I've Been Through It All".
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