Sarah Note: Okay, I haven’t actually read this yet, but literally any time I have seen Jann Arden in interviews or heard her on podcasts, she is utterly hilarious, a whole ton of fun and I really wish I was friends with her because holy crap does she make me smile.
Goodreads: 4.04/5
Like many women, it took Jann a long time to realize that trying to be pleasing and likeable and beautiful in the eyes of others was a loser's game. Letting it rip, and damning the consequences, is not only liberating, it's a hell of a lot of fun: "Being the age I am-that so many women are-is just the best time of my life."
With her trademark humour and grace, Jann weaves her own story together with tales of her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, and the father she came close to hating, to show her younger self-and all of us-that fear and avoidance is no way to live. "What I'm thinking about now aren't all the ways I can try to hang on to my youth or all the seconds ticking by in some kind of morbid countdown to death," she writes, "but rather how I keep becoming someone I always hoped I could be. If I'm lucky one day a very old face will look back at me from the mirror, a face I once shied away from. I will love that old woman ferociously, because she has finally figured out how to live a life of purpose-not in spite of but because of all her mistakes and failures."
Sarah Note: Okay, I haven’t actually read this yet, but literally any time I have seen Jann Arden in interviews or heard her on podcasts, she is utterly hilarious, a whole ton of fun and I really wish I was friends with her because holy crap does she make me smile.
Goodreads: 4.04/5
Like many women, it took Jann a long time to realize that trying to be pleasing and likeable and beautiful in the eyes of others was a loser's game. Letting it rip, and damning the consequences, is not only liberating, it's a hell of a lot of fun: "Being the age I am-that so many women are-is just the best time of my life."
With her trademark humour and grace, Jann weaves her own story together with tales of her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, and the father she came close to hating, to show her younger self-and all of us-that fear and avoidance is no way to live. "What I'm thinking about now aren't all the ways I can try to hang on to my youth or all the seconds ticking by in some kind of morbid countdown to death," she writes, "but rather how I keep becoming someone I always hoped I could be. If I'm lucky one day a very old face will look back at me from the mirror, a face I once shied away from. I will love that old woman ferociously, because she has finally figured out how to live a life of purpose-not in spite of but because of all her mistakes and failures."
ISBN: 9780735279971
