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My Life So Far
by Jane Fonda
My Life So Far does what few memoirs do- it teaches you about the person and give you their history and actual history in an informative and easily readable way.
Prior to the last few years, most of my Jane Fonda knowledge was limited to her fitness history, protest history, and I knew she made movies. I had heard this memoir described as a textbook by the Celebrity Book Club Podcast, and Jane really gave me a context of the Vietnam War that was missing in my classrooms growing up. Jane’s given so much history sharing her own story and explained her beliefs and actions in a way that I think even her critics would have to acknowledge. I was as interested in her chapters on gender and parenting as I was on the showbusiness insights and the breakdown of her career choices. The takeaways are endless. She hands out marriage advice and relationship lessons that are so reasonable, without assigning all of the blame to others. This is how you get divorces three times and grow. Funny enough (as they starred together in Monster-In-Law), this is actually the kind of play by play on love and career that I would love from JLO and other multi-hyphenates.
I would recommend this book to people interested in activism as well as the entertainment business, as she shows respect to everything she shares. I feel like I took a Jane Fonda class, in the best possible way.
Prior to the last few years, most of my Jane Fonda knowledge was limited to her fitness history, protest history, and I knew she made movies. I had heard this memoir described as a textbook by the Celebrity Book Club Podcast, and Jane really gave me a context of the Vietnam War that was missing in my classrooms growing up. Jane’s given so much history sharing her own story and explained her beliefs and actions in a way that I think even her critics would have to acknowledge. I was as interested in her chapters on gender and parenting as I was on the showbusiness insights and the breakdown of her career choices. The takeaways are endless. She hands out marriage advice and relationship lessons that are so reasonable, without assigning all of the blame to others. This is how you get divorces three times and grow. Funny enough (as they starred together in Monster-In-Law), this is actually the kind of play by play on love and career that I would love from JLO and other multi-hyphenates.
I would recommend this book to people interested in activism as well as the entertainment business, as she shows respect to everything she shares. I feel like I took a Jane Fonda class, in the best possible way.