Rebecca

Excellent

Revisado: 03-08-21

Loved loved loved. Great characters and a gone girl worthy twisty plot. Going to get a copy for my best friend and mother in law. LOVE this author and can’t wait to see what she does next!

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Hilarious!!

Revisado: 05-07-19

I LOVED this production (I guess you would call it??) it was probably the most I’ve ever laughed while listening to audible (thereby usurping the formidable David Sedaris). The celebrity voices were SO fun and honestly Kate McKinnon would crack me up reading the phone book, so listening to her parody both millennial women (of which I am one!!) and politics in the same character was truly a delight. Political satire done right, which can be hard to find this day in age. But they nail it. Audible: can we have a sequel please??

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One of the best listens of the year

Revisado: 01-19-19

I half read and half listened to this book. I was concerned it wouldn’t live up to the hype, but oh my god it was excellent, historic. I don’t think we’ve had a FLOTUS open up so much to the public since Eleanor Roosevelt. Meanwhile, Michelle Obama has such a strong command of language and is a talented writer. Laughed and cried and never once got annoyed with her, which might be a first for me for political memoirs!! We are lucky to have had her as flotus and even luckier that she opened up the way she did in this book.

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Best book of the summer!!

Revisado: 09-04-17

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

YES (see below)

What did you like best about this story?

My mother and grandmother are elected officials and I'm currently volunteering on a congressional campaign (for a woman) and this was just so emotionally accurate. Although there were parts where you had to suspend your disbelief for sure, the writing was so able to capture the emotion of mother/daughter relationships, elections, public perceptions, and just what it's like to be a woman. i literally could not stop listening to this book and finished it in about two days. the ending made me cry, and i can't remember the last time that happened.

Which scene was your favorite?

any number of ruby's emails, but my favorite line was probably "i don't know if it's normal in my country for event planners to run for mayor."

i also LOVED the chapter in which ruby forges an extremely unlikely friendship.

If you could rename Young Jane Young, what would you call it?

"i don't know if it's normal in my country for event planners to fur mayor" :)

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Fun read - stay with it!

Revisado: 08-25-17

At first I found this book kind of annoying, and I was put off by an author narrating her own novel but then the whole thing grew on me! Really fun, wild ride of a read. Would highly recommend.

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Great narration and excellent story

Revisado: 08-24-16

Really enjoyed this listen though I found the ending to be a little disappointing. I was really impressed with the narration - the narrator had the perfect southern draw.

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Favorite book of the year

Revisado: 07-19-16

Such a talented story teller and really enjoyed listening to this. Half way through, it becomes a little navel gazing but is still a great listen

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Great read

Revisado: 05-31-16

Actually haven't read pride & prejudice in full but loved this. Don't think EVERYTHING made sense this day in age though. Felt a lot like a Jennifer wiener which isn't a bad thing (in fact is a great thing) but it's very different from Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep which is one of my all time favorites

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Decent, well narrated

Revisado: 04-21-16

Great narrator, but the characters were kinda irritating. Something about it drew me in though, so would recommend

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Good read, great narrator

Revisado: 06-06-15

Really interesting insights and a great read. Sometimes the anthropological angle felt like a stretch. GREAT narrator

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