My Life in…

I don’t usually read books by celebrities, but I watched Maureen McCormick on Celebrity Fit Club (should I admit that?) and was intrigued by her story.  Overall, this book was somewhat weak.  The beginning parts were very flat and told in a detached style.  Most of the anecdotes about her acting career read as a list of people she had met without really illuminating anything interesting about them.  Even the confessions about her drug addiction weren’t terrible interesting.

Where the story begins is near the end, when she meets her husband and her family begins to fall apart.  This story is actually much more interesting than her acting career and the emotions shine through at this part.  The situation with her brother and father is both unique and haunting.  Her coping with her mother’s illness and death is gripping.  This would have made a much more compelling story on its own, but clearly she wouldn’t have sold many books without the Brady Bunch stuff in it.  It’s too bad.

Grade: C+
Book #88 of 2008