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4.18 AVERAGE
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide
Moderate: Eating disorder
I truly loved listening to her read this. Remarkable life, remarkable insight.
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Very interesting. Her life was interesting. She is very passionate about life.
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She lost me a bit with the Ted Turner section, but it was a great listen.
Believe it or not, this is one of the best mainstream books I've read in a long time.
Jane Fonda has lived hundreds of lives but in My Life So Far she distills them down to three acts.
I was already a huge fan, but now I'm a full fledged Fonda stan! She just has had the most remarkable career.
I had basically only experienced her as an actress; the first movie I saw her in was a weird little funeral comedy called This is Where I Leave You and I found it to be pretty unremarkable. Then I started Grace and Frankie in college and started to get it. Get what all the hype is about this legendary actress. She brought so much warmth, love, complexity and humor to her character Grace - and the show's theme of friendship really spoke to me.
Now, I know, Grace and Frankie was just the tip of the iceberg.
Jane explores her relationship with her legendary father and has done some remarkable self-work to understand how he has influenced and shaped her. She writes with just stunning self-awareness that I can't help but admire. Even more interesting to me is her relationship with her mother, a troubled woman who she struggled to love.
There is this beautiful motif about butterflies and her mother that just keeps popping into my head. Jane is a clear writer, but has a slight literary sensibility that really impressed me. And elevated the book above a typical memoir.
She really goes into everything here: the exercise videos, her Oscar winning performances, her three marriages and of course Hanoi Jane. These events mostly took place before I was born, so this was all new to me. And for that reason, it was all interesting! I am not sure if this book will hit as hard for people who witnessed these moments in Jane's life, but for me I was listening with wrapped attention for the duration of this incredibly long book (the longest I've read this year!).
I was already a huge fan, but now I'm a full fledged Fonda stan! She just has had the most remarkable career.
I had basically only experienced her as an actress; the first movie I saw her in was a weird little funeral comedy called This is Where I Leave You and I found it to be pretty unremarkable. Then I started Grace and Frankie in college and started to get it. Get what all the hype is about this legendary actress. She brought so much warmth, love, complexity and humor to her character Grace - and the show's theme of friendship really spoke to me.
Now, I know, Grace and Frankie was just the tip of the iceberg.
Jane explores her relationship with her legendary father and has done some remarkable self-work to understand how he has influenced and shaped her. She writes with just stunning self-awareness that I can't help but admire. Even more interesting to me is her relationship with her mother, a troubled woman who she struggled to love.
There is this beautiful motif about butterflies and her mother that just keeps popping into my head. Jane is a clear writer, but has a slight literary sensibility that really impressed me. And elevated the book above a typical memoir.
She really goes into everything here: the exercise videos, her Oscar winning performances, her three marriages and of course Hanoi Jane. These events mostly took place before I was born, so this was all new to me. And for that reason, it was all interesting! I am not sure if this book will hit as hard for people who witnessed these moments in Jane's life, but for me I was listening with wrapped attention for the duration of this incredibly long book (the longest I've read this year!).
I struggled with this one. A lot.
Jane wrote this book to help young women avoid the same mistakes and challenges she did, but making the book so long and dense made it difficult to read.
I think the book could have been half the size and conveyed the same message in a more concise way. It was painful to read in such details the way Jane repeatedly denied her own wants and desires.
I’m glad she has finally healed and is using her wisdom and resources to help others but god damn.
I am sorry Jane Fonda but this book infuriated me.
Jane wrote this book to help young women avoid the same mistakes and challenges she did, but making the book so long and dense made it difficult to read.
I think the book could have been half the size and conveyed the same message in a more concise way. It was painful to read in such details the way Jane repeatedly denied her own wants and desires.
I’m glad she has finally healed and is using her wisdom and resources to help others but god damn.
I am sorry Jane Fonda but this book infuriated me.