Down the Drain

She says impending doom like 12 million times and has a tendency to skim through extremely important eras of her life, sometimes within a few lines. But she knows how to write something candid and gritty and hopeful.

Like I said before, I think the pacing of this is a bit awkward. I'm not sure I would've been able to finish it if I wasn't listening to the audiobook (which is exceptional because it's read by her). At times, I felt like we stayed in the same place for far too long or escaped an important part of her history entirely too fast. But at the same time, I think most memoirs are like this. Besides pacing (or maybe what goes hand-in-hand with pacing), is the sheer number of names you have to remember in this. I just started floating through this with no regard for who was who. Maybe this is just a reader comprehension problem though.

I find it really impressive that this has no ghostwriter. Idk what that says about me and my perception of celebs/actors (yea, I'd definitely consider her a celeb), but Julia knows how to write. Her interiority is very much just told to us instead of always shown, but that is definitely in the nature of memoirs.