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Strike and Robin are still great characters, the mystery was sort of dumb and hamfistedly yucky.
Interesting plot with unexpected (and expected) turns of events, but the logistics are too sloppy for this nitpicker.
Once you get over the fact that this has nothing in common with the average celebrity memoir, it's a lot more enjoyable. It's more like a “life in the life” (as opposed to day in the life) of an imperfect person who feels a lot of feels. In a good way.
I am giving up because this book is hard to grind through on AUDIOBOOK. It's basically all about how the author is better than you. There are maybe 10 pages of interesting interviews, but it's mostly a play-by-play about how excited she got this one time. I think she has the ability to be a good journalist in the probing/inquiring sense, but she's too close to this one. Also “I shook like a tuning fork that had been hit overly hard” and “The book wasn't LIKE a brick, it could actually be used as one”. Yeah.
Super good, I've been recommending it to everyone I meet. The title AND the subtitle are misleading - the book is about showing how people who are raging successes are the products of circumstances, not just being awesomer than you.
Extremely long and unrelated lead-in, but the parts that were actually about influenza were interesting.
I thought the parts about her childhood in the Bronx were very compelling and novel-like, but the unending cliches, gratuitous nostalgia and self-back-patting made it hard for me to finish. “How Great I Am” might be a more appropriate title.