I’m Glad My Mom Died

𝐌𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰

My first book and the first 5-star rated for this year. I know 2024 is still young but, being the stingy ‘rater’ that I am, 5 for a memoir is HIGH! When I saw one of her interviews stating she chose this title to grab the attention of the readers, (see her honesty?) and she succeeded. But it was justified at the end of the book why she named her debut the way she named it. Her dark humor is what kept me hooked from cover to cover apart from her writing style. You can feel the rawness and sense her personality in every word, phrase, and idiom she uses.

This is a very incisive and heartbreaking memoir. She was able to put all her thoughts, bits, and pieces of her childhood, and conveyed what it’s like to do everything just to sustain her mom’s happiness. Jennette McCurdy earned my respect. Props to her moral strength and bravery! A very principled woman.

𝑴𝒀 𝑭𝑨𝑽𝑶𝑹𝑰𝑻𝑬 𝑸𝑼𝑶𝑻𝑬𝑺:

💡 “Hollywood’s like a BAD BOYFRIEND. They keep stringing you along without making any type of formal commitment.”

💡 Everyone loves the story of somebody overcoming adversity. If you mention my ductal carcinoma, you’ll get the sympathy vote.”

💡 “Maybe if your father got a job that PAID THE BILLS for once so I wouldn’t have to depend on a CHILD.”

💡 “Child stardom is a trap. A dead end. And I can see that even if Mommy can’t.”

💡”Kids who start out on kids’ TV, it’s a career death sentence. They become bait for the media, highly publicized as rebellious, trouble, and tortured, when all they’re trying to do is GROW.”

𝑭𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑵𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒔
- Arclight Cafe
- DVD of Sting
- “cam ooda die”
- Phil Collins
- hush money
- moral strength
- Miranda Cosgrove (used to be my girl crush apart from Kristin Kreuk)

ⓉⓇⒾⒼⒼⒺⓇⓈ

- eating disorder
- child abuse
- emotional manipulation
- excessive gaslighting

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