en-US Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:41:20 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg UserFollowing316626270 Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:41:20 -0800 /user/show/184676331-yikem Rob is now following Yikem ]]> Review7001018800 Wed, 13 Nov 2024 02:35:53 -0800 /review/show/7001018800 Rob gave 4 stars to Gender Queer: A Memoir (Paperback) by Maia Kobabe
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If you have never found yourself unironically saying, “Britney Spears is a profoundly strong, resilient, talented individual,� this book will surprise you.

I already had a general idea of what happened. Justin’s baby. Shaving her head. The conservatorship. “Leave Britney alone,� or whatever. But there are a lot of holes and assumptions in that story.

This memoir makes it crystal clear that behind the controversial media icon of the nineties and early aughts was a skilled and dedicated human who really wanted to just put in the work. I never understood how capable she was when she got into the business, and how much her career was driven by her own ambition, her talent, her creative choice, before she was even an adult.

Before reading, many people are going to know that she spiraled, but they will never understand how she was made to endure more crushing devastation than most of us can even imagine. That she survived decades of sometimes literal torture and abuse on the strength of her human spirit alone.

I finished the entire 5-and-a-half-hour audiobook in one sitting. I gave it 5 stars not for prose or excellent authorship, but for the detail, depth, and sheer vulnerability that I never expected to experience in this reading. ]]> Review6818112047 Wed, 04 Sep 2024 02:21:53 -0700 /review/show/6818112047 Rob gave 3 stars to The Willows (Paperback) by Algernon Blackwood
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