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I Never Promised You A Goodie Bag: A Memoir Of A Life Through Events--the Ones You Plan And The Ones You Don't (2012)

by Jennifer Gilbert(Favorite Author)

3.56 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0062075942 (ISBN13: 9780062075949)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

HarperCollins

review 1: I agree with other reviewers that the writing wasn't the best and at some points the author went too heavy on trying to impress the reader with her current life.However, having gone through something similar to her, I really identified with the way that she described how she felt after and the way she was dealing with things. It was comforting to know that someone else understood the things that I wasn't saying to anyone. I can't say that I would recommend the book to others though, since I don't think it would be very interesting if you couldn't relate to the author on any level.
review 2: I felt that this book was really aimed at the people Jennifer Gilbert knows, as this is such a personal reaction that readers in general may not get why they are reading thi... mores book. Nevertheless, this is an account of a brave recovery toward normalcy after painful and traumatic experiences. At the very end of the book, however, Jennifer pulls together all the pain and sorrow in her life to this conclusion: "You can't control what may happen to you in this life, but you can control who you want to be after it happens. " less

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