Slow reading month for me. I've been busy making gifts for #autumncomfortswap and melting during the heat waves. And now I can add hacking up a lung due to wildfire smoke in the area. #readingwrapup #julysreads
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Slow reading month for me. I've been busy making gifts for #autumncomfortswap and melting during the heat waves. And now I can add hacking up a lung due to wildfire smoke in the area. #readingwrapup #julysreads
pickMichael J. Fox is inarguably in my top 5 favorite actors.
I found this book to be illuminating, sad, and, uplifting. Illuminating because he shares information about his life and career that was news to me. Sad because his disease is known to shorten lifespans, a fact he does not shy away from. Uplifting because he actively chooses life, which is evident in this book. Definitely worth the listen.
pickFor a celebrity memoir, I was pleasantly surprised at how eloquently this book was written. A blend of his journey into acting and his diagnosis with Parkinson‘s, it struck just the right tone between serious and gossipy. Although he unfortunately didn‘t succeed in his foundation‘s goal of finding a cure for Parkinson‘s in 10 years, he has made a tremendous impact in bringing awareness and support for this horrible disease. Good on audio
pickI enjoyed Fox‘s first biography so much i decided i would read the others this year. A lot of this is about his fight for stem cell research and getting involved in politics in the early 2000s. Less dramatic than his first bio, but Michael‘s philosophy on life, his humility and the way he approached confrontations with grace for the other side, makes this an inspirational read for me.
pickPublished in 2002, its taken me over 21 years to get to this book! You get a taste of the 80s and 90s, Michael‘s childhood and time in Hollywood - but of course so much of this is about his Parkinsons diagnosis and dealing both with that and his turbulent “young Hollywood star” lifestyle. I was amazed at the perspective he had for 2002, not just in considering illness and his life purpose but also understanding ⬇️
#ReadingBracket2023 #nonfiction
All my NF were great this month. Going through a celeb-memoir-audiobook phase and they were all very good, each distinctly different although covering overlapping time periods and events. But since I have to pick one…
Lucky Man - 4⭐️
Brat: an 80s story - 4⭐️
Stories I Only Tell My Friends - 4⭐️
Ted and Ann: the mystery of a missing child and her neighbor Ted Bundy - 4⭐️
pickI grew up watching Michael J Fox on Family Ties & of course most of his movies (all 3 of my kids love Back to the Future). My husband & I recently watched his movie, Still, on Apple. This book is very similar to the movie as he discusses his initial symptoms & diagnosis. He wrote this book a few years after his diagnosis. He talks about his childhood & early years becoming an actor. Through his diagnosis he‘s become a fierce advocate for funding
#TemptingTitles #WithLuck
💜 MJF but still haven‘t read one of his books, have you?
One of my favorite quotes “Acceptance doesn‘t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and there‘s got to be a way through it.”
