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I got about a third of the way through this book before I had to stop reading. How do you write 3 memoirs in under ten years? You try to extrapolate half baked ideas with random anecdotes in your own life into something profound. I was reading it for a book club, and went into with an open mind, but it became apparently clear by page 3, that I never had fallen trap to any of the ideas that Glennon held so dear and then subsequently tries to re-rewrite in the chapters ahead. I also did not read the first two books, so maybe this is why I found the entirety of what I did read overwrought.
I have never thought of my marriage, or any marriage as redeeming nor did I ever place that burden on any of my relationships. I never thought of motherhood as my everything, but I recognize that being a parent and doing it well is a privilege, not a choice. I don't think of sexuality and attraction in a geometrical distribution, because I wasn't raised in a vacuum where I never encountered other people unlike myself (or choose to be blind to them, maybe). I don't think sobriety or lack thereof are like these defining elements of people. Life is long, birth is suffering, people change. Maybe in her fourth memoir (which will cover a two week trip to the Bahamas or doing nothing in the pandemic), Glennon will come to terms with the fact that you can have it all, just not at once, and not forever. Maybe she should also stop trying to put life into paradigms with catchphrases like "Build and Burn."
I am not going to even go into the writing, structure, or general rhythm of the books because I imagine for a certain person this is great. (Obviously not for me, most of the chapters just come off as rambling word-vomit). I paid for it though and she got my money, so I guess she is doing something right.
April 2020 · Books
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Untamed
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