Comments on: Review: The Imposter’s Daughter, Laurie Sandell

By: litlove

litlove — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 22:20:44 +0000

Gosh I am so old and stuck in my ways. I’d read this but not as a graphic memoir. Somehow, the thought of a dysfunctional childhood told in cartoons feels all sort of wrong. But that’s just me being a couple of centuries behind the times. I will go and look up Jennifer Finney Boylan instead!:)

By: NWK (@MumsyNancy)

NWK (@MumsyNancy) — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 01:28:43 +0000

In reply to Gin Jenny. Oh I see how it is. The Zombies are not good enough for EITHER of you

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:54:11 +0000

In reply to Nish. I do too, but I also feel interested in reading stuff that in my mind is none of my business. I have a lot of cognitive dissonance around family memoirs. :p

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:53:21 +0000

In reply to Eva. I'm glad of that too, and I'm glad there are blogs now (I love y'all!), and I'm also planning not to post a single picture of any infant children I may have on any social media website ever. I don't judge people who do it, but I just hate to have my putative kid out in public before s/he can even talk.

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:52:22 +0000

In reply to Athira. It's a graphic memoir. Give it a try! (I like graphic memoirs a lot too.)

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:51:16 +0000

In reply to Jeanne. Hahahahahahaha, I love it. I know that phrase from that musical! I want my family to do that too but they won't listen to Next to Normal. (Yet. I have a plan. It involves the new musical from that creative team, which stars Idina Menzel and thus will interest my family, and then I'll be all, Oh guess what, the same people who made this also made this OTHER musical, and hey, I just happen to have the soundtrack to that too!)

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:39:39 +0000

In reply to Sheila (Book Journey). What'd you think? Any good?

By: Nish

Nish — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 11:28:58 +0000

Ooh, I am not fond of family memoirs at all, unless it is funny and not hurtful. All said and done, family is family, however dysfunctional, and I always feel so icky reading stuff that in my mind is none of my business.

By: Sheila (Book Journey)

Sheila (Book Journey) — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 01:53:51 +0000

I read this one a couple years back 🙂

By: Eva

Eva — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:50:30 +0000

I always wonder about that with memoirs too. But I also wonder about how the next generation is going to feel when they’re my age looking at their parents’ facebook accounts and blogs. Which I know isn’t an original thought at all! There’s a strange line between your identity as it relates to your friends & family and their own personhoods, and as the internet keeps blurring the line between private and public, it all just seems to get more complicated. I don’t know. I’m just glad there were no blogs when I was a baby! 😉