A review by singalana
Miss Memory Lane: A Memoir by Colton Haynes

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

Writing a review about this book is going to be very hard since it talks about such personal experiences. 

I picked this up because I saw it on a list of audiobooks that the authors themselves narrated. I had listened to I’m Glad My Mom Died and loved it, so I thought this was going to be something similar, and in a way, it was. But I had no idea how personal, raw, and brutal this book was going to be.

The book recounts his childhood, his dreams of becoming a model and then an actor, his sexuality, and his loss. That’s a lot to unpack. What first startled me was how he would speak of things that definitely weren’t okay, like they were okay, like they were normal and to be expected. It made these things hard to listen to, but I carried on because I hoped there was light at the end of the tunnel for him.

What I took away from this listening experience is that there is so much to people that you don’t know about. And the best thing that you can do for someone is to offer them a safe space where they can be who they are instead of trying to live up to the expectations of others. 

Yes, this book was raw and brutal, but there was an undercurrent of hope. 
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