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book review || I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

video review || Nonfiction November -- Reading Vlog 214

What an absolutely incredibly written book that is so compulsively readable while making your stomach turn? I couldn’t stop reading this. I spend much of my Saturday finishing this book via audio and physical because I just didn’t want to stop, particularly once I hit the “after” section of her mother’s death.

I loved iCarly when I was younger (though it definitely doesn’t hold up well upon rewatch) and Sam was my favorite character, so of course I was intrigued about Jennette’s book, but the title was what really drew me in. When I heard all the positive reviews, I knew I had to read it.

While this is told chronologically, it’s done in vignettes of her life, many of them so hard to take in as you realize the true horror to some of the things she’s experienced. The writing style reflects the voice of her age in each chapter which made some of the moments even more heartbreaking, because she didn’t realize the impact that moment would have on her down the line. It’s so open and raw, I couldn’t believe she wasn’t getting more choked up when I listened to the audiobook, but it made the moment where her voice caught bring tears to my eyes instantly.

This was so hard hitting and while the ending wasn’t the most satisfying, I do think it felt realistic and certainly made for a memorable final note.

5 / 5 stars

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reading challenge review #9

Just finished: The Conqueror's Saga (And I Darken + Now I Rise + Bright We Burn) by Kiersten White + Comme un vol d'étourneaux by Giorgio Parisi + I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy + Crooked House by Agatha Christie

Currently reading: Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee

Next on schedule: L'Ultime Expérience by Bruce Benamran + Boudicca by Jean-Laurent Del Socorro + Le Flambeau + Témoin à charge by Agatha Christie

I went totally off-schedule during my holidays, I'll try to get back to it asap but I've got so much on my plate in August, it'll be hard ;(

For what it was, The Conqueror's Saga was too long a story for me. I very much liked the first volume, but by the third one I was quite bored, even if I got attached to the characters and still wanted to know the conclusion of it all. I think Kiersten White's other trilogy Camelot Rising was better paced and way more engaging, though it was a totally different setting and perhaps less mature.

My best friend who mostly only reads popular science books lent me one of her recent favorites, a french translation of In un volo di storni (In a Flight of Starlings) by Giorgio Parisi which was fascinating and well explained!

Jennette McCurdy's memoir is very much worth the read, it's unexpectedly well-written in a sort of harshly candid way. It's important and insightful. I'm glad her mom died, too. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to be slapped in the face by a book (please just mind the tw before reading)

Crooked House was a cool mystery. I've never been disappointed by the end of an Agatha Christie book, and this one is not an exception, but I have to admit that sometimes the actual investigation can be quite dull. And I couldn't rely on my affection for the characters this time since none of them were a recurring character from other books (but I understand how Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot wouldn't have worked on this one). It's a good thing her books are short, then. I'd recommend this one still!

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Me after finishing a 9 hours video essay on Sam&Cat

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Day 12: JOMPBPC: Books And Candles

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I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

Short review:

I don't know how anyone can give this book anything less than five stars. Jennette perfectly encapsulated being young and thinking your parents (in this case specifically her mom) are perfect and finding out as you got older that this isn't true as well as recovering from this discovery. I loved that the chapters were only one to five pages long. It made it feel like Jennette sat down and just told me a story out of her life instead of flowing directly from one point to the next. A couple of the reviews on this book said that this was it was a dark humor book and was funny, however nowhere during this book did I laugh. It was shocking and it made me angry for Jennette, but this book also had so much hope in it. She demonstrates how much it takes to change yourself for the better even after you realize you need to change as well as how uphill that battle can be. I'm Glad My Mom Died is raw and emotional and is a story that many people from all walks of life can find themselves in, even if they weren't forced to be actresses.

Rate: 5/5

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Jennette McCurdy, I’m Glad My Mom Died

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'' We've drifted apart. It's a sad reality for me in my late twenties. At the beginning of the decade, the people I was close to seemed like friends for life, people I could never imagine not seeing every day. But life happens. Love happens. Loss happens. Change and growth happen at different paces for different people, and sometimes the paces just don't line up. It's devastating if I think too much about it, so I usually don't. ''

Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

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- Jennette Mccurdy, "I'm Glad My Mom Died"

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Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?” She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income. In I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail—just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly, she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (“Hi Gale!”), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.

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Currently reading I'm glad my mom died by Jennette McCurdy, i'm WRECKED.

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what seems like forever ago, @geryone so kindly tagged me and asked me to share nine book recommendations. after combing through some of my recent reads, here are some of my favorites:

My short little summaries and thoughts are listed under the cut:

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room is about a young man in David and his summer romance with another young man named Giovanni. Through the lens of love and heartbreak, David goes through a journey of identity.

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk - We follow our narrator, for now we can call him Joe, as he begins a very unconventional friendship with a man named Tyler. Men fight, they also bite and many a problems arise.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini- Historical fiction novel that is set agains the backdrop of many events from the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy to the rise of the Taliban regime. I don't think I've cried harder reading a book so that's my own weird way of saying I can't recommend it enough.

For One More Day by Mitch Albom- Little read with a lot of heart. Fictional baseball player has the chance to spend one more day with his late mother, who he misses more than he ever thought he would. Another book that kept me crying into the middle of the night.

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio - I feel like if you like dark academia; this is an essential. A group of Shakespearean acting students at the fictional Dellecher Shakespeare conservatory get wrapped in a murder and it's an ongoing case of whodunit.

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood - A delicate look into the mundane crafted through the lens of grief, loss and heartache. We follow the life of George, a middle-aged gay man mourning the loss of his partner. Like Giovanni's Room, I think it's a staple of queer literature.

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy - A heartbreaking memoir that's sprinkled with the well timed moment of comedy. We learn about Jennette McCurdy's tumultuous relationship with acting, the abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother, and her own way of working towards healing.

Promises of Gold by José Olivarez - If prose isn't your thing; this might be! Promises of Gold is a poetry collection in which Olivarez family, identity, love and quarantine. One of my personal favorites is Regret or My Dad Says Love

A Short History of the Girl Next Door by Jared Reck - A story about first love that in ends heartbreak in more ways that one. It's first person and it's YA, two things I normally never read, but it's just so so good. Forget crying into the middle of the night, this had me crying well into morning

no pressure tagging: @firstfullmoon and @soracities if you have anything you want to recommend <3

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Day 20: JOMPBPC: Pastels

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JENNETTE MCCURDY – I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED