A review by queendbw
Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs by
adventurous
challenging
emotional
informative
fast-paced
3.0
Book #16 of 2023. Things I Should Have Told My Daughter by Pearl Cleage.
I was really excited to read this one because I have loved so much of her writing. This one just didn’t do it for me. Maybe a different format would have worked for me, I don’t know.
The book is a series of entries from her personal journals over a 2-decade span. We see the inner workings of her mind through marriage, pregnancy and divorce. She also shares her jubilation in helping to get Atlanta’s first black mayor elected and her eventual distaste for working in politics.
It was very interesting to hear her viewpoint of historic events/people. But it is very much a collection of journal entries and sometimes comes across and fragmented and disjointed, as a journal would. I guess I’ll keep holding out for a true biography, maybe.
3.5/5
#readsof2023 #audiobookreader #literacy #readingisfundamental
I was really excited to read this one because I have loved so much of her writing. This one just didn’t do it for me. Maybe a different format would have worked for me, I don’t know.
The book is a series of entries from her personal journals over a 2-decade span. We see the inner workings of her mind through marriage, pregnancy and divorce. She also shares her jubilation in helping to get Atlanta’s first black mayor elected and her eventual distaste for working in politics.
It was very interesting to hear her viewpoint of historic events/people. But it is very much a collection of journal entries and sometimes comes across and fragmented and disjointed, as a journal would. I guess I’ll keep holding out for a true biography, maybe.
3.5/5
#readsof2023 #audiobookreader #literacy #readingisfundamental