Then Again [With Earbuds]
by:
Diane Keaton (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781616570781 (1616570784)
Publish date: November 15th 2011
Publisher: Playaway
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Book Club,
Adult,
Culture,
Film,
Family,
Biography Memoir,
Womens
Diane Keaton reads her own book, but doesn't speak or write in sentences. Much of the material is taken from her late mother's journals, but this gets mixed in with her thoughts and reflections. In a word the book is random.
While Then Again includes autobiographical detail and, for the most part, follows a roughly chronological structure, Keaton does play a lot with the form. Pulling in excerpts from her mother’s volumes of personal journals and setting them alongside her own narrative, she looks for their similarities...
I found the sections of the story written by her mother were more interesting, when the reader's got to see the letters Dorothy sent or the journals she wrote, we found out so much about her "character". I wish that the book would have had more of Dorothy's memoirs, with the odd comment from Diane h...
★★★½✩ I liked this memoir, but it was from two perspectives: Insecure Diane and her mother’s bias writings on Diane. So the black and white cover was appropriate.
There are few genuine people in Hollywood. I always felt that Diane Keaton was one of them. This book proves it. It's nothing if not honest. I may be biased in giving it 5 stars because I've always been a huge Diane Keaton fan. Is it the best written memoir? Perhaps not. But as Woody Allen would say...
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