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skylareliz's review
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
sarahserenidad's review against another edition
emotional
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informative
inspiring
fast-paced
4.0
heorina13's review against another edition
4.0
I always admired Naya so much, as a person and as an actress. The book was lovely and I was happy to learn more things about her. It is true I was missing a bit more Glee stuff, but at the same time I get it - it is a book about her life, not about Glee, so it is absolutely understandable why there was only one chapter about it.
Her writing was smart and witty, I really enjoyed her storytelling and was so glad I got the chance to glimpse into her life.
I read this story while she was missing and presumed dead after swimming in Lake Piru. This made it even stronger read, especially chapters and sentences about her future plans and how she is going to grow old with Ryan and watch Josey become a man. Obviously I already knew she and Ryan got divorced two years ago, but it was still hard to read and I cried several times. I finished the book on the evening they found her body in the water...
Heartbroken.
Her writing was smart and witty, I really enjoyed her storytelling and was so glad I got the chance to glimpse into her life.
I read this story while she was missing and presumed dead after swimming in Lake Piru. This made it even stronger read, especially chapters and sentences about her future plans and how she is going to grow old with Ryan and watch Josey become a man. Obviously I already knew she and Ryan got divorced two years ago, but it was still hard to read and I cried several times. I finished the book on the evening they found her body in the water...
Heartbroken.
aejohnson85's review against another edition
3.0
I wasn't sure what to expect with this memoir as first of all, Naya is only around 30, so I wasn't sure how much she'd have to write about. The memoir is short, only about ten chapters, but it moves along very quickly. My opinion of Naya didn't really change too much from reading it. She isn't shy at laying it all out there with a lot of her stories and I learned that my suspicions about the Glee cast were mostly true. I would've liked more about her time on Glee to be honest. I did find her somewhat contradicting as she wrote about how she doesn't want to slam Lea Michele (as they had a rumoured feud during Glee) but goes on to mention how Lea didn't like that Naya had a bigger role, that she wouldn't talk to her for the entirety of the last season and talks about filming a scene where someone stormed off and wouldn't come back to set...although I guess in that story she only heavily alludes to it being Lea....it's a little sad to hear her talk so happily about her husband as they are now in the middle of a divorce, despite the book only coming out last year...I'm sure that will be detailed in a later book!
eleisereads's review against another edition
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3.0
bean_7088's review against another edition
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I was never on thr Glee train, I had no idea she did music, and I didn't know she was a child star. I only picked this up after I was watching a video on "shmariana shamde" and they mentioned this memoir and that it was pretty good.
I listened to the audio book that was read by her, and I felt it kind of took the emotion out of a lot of it tbh. But I did like the structure. Separating things into sections she wanted to talk about and we slowly had her life timeline filled in.
I know enough about glee for the glee tea to still be interesting.
This autobiography was alright. It wasn't bad, but it didn’t make me cry or think, and proved she a person like everyone else, and kind of exactly the kind of person I expected she'd be like.
I listened to the audio book that was read by her, and I felt it kind of took the emotion out of a lot of it tbh. But I did like the structure. Separating things into sections she wanted to talk about and we slowly had her life timeline filled in.
I know enough about glee for the glee tea to still be interesting.
This autobiography was alright. It wasn't bad, but it didn’t make me cry or think, and proved she a person like everyone else, and kind of exactly the kind of person I expected she'd be like.
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Moderate: Racism and Abortion