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I Don't Know What You Know Me From
- Confessions of a Co-Star
- By: Judy Greer
- Narrated by: Judy Greer
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 918
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 828
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Story4 out of 5 stars 823
You know Judy Greer, right? Wait, what was she in again? The Wedding Planner, 13 Going on 30, 27 Dresses, The Descendants. Yes, you totally recognize her. And, odds are, if you're like most women in America, you feel like she's already your friend. Thankfully, Greer has finally written a book of essays about all the moments, topics, observations, and confessions that you would hope to hear from your best friend.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Yay!!! Another Audible Favorite!
- By Amazon Customer on 04-10-14
- I Don't Know What You Know Me From
- Confessions of a Co-Star
- By: Judy Greer
- Narrated by: Judy Greer
Light and bright
Reviewed: 05-16-23
This book is a testament to not taking yourself (or life) too seriously. I found her take on things intoxicatingly bingeable, if for no other reason than it being a reprieve from the cultural norms where everything is a problem or dramatic or intense. She’s fun. And this book reminded me to take each chapter in life moment-to-moment and not read too deeply into everything.
With that being said, I was waiting for her to get deeper, specifically with acting. Call it projection or blame it on the title, but I was hoping for a little glimpse into her relationship to her career beyond it being what she fell into. At one point she does say acting wasn’t her life “yet”, which made me anticipate the moment it did become her life and what that was like in terms of passion. Instead, I got a lukewarm feel throughout and was shocked when the last chapter came to a close. So it wasn’t quite the payoff I was expecting, but I still appreciate the lightheartedness of it.
Not everything has to hit hard in the humanity. This was fun, and it made me feel like anything is possible. And the organization and performance was crisp. So for all intents and purposes, I enjoyed it, even if it left me a little less than satisfied.
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City of Girls
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Blair Brown
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24,826
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22,219
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22,115
Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A strong story
- By Anita Kristensen on 06-08-19
- City of Girls
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Blair Brown
An Important Story
Reviewed: 12-09-22
I can see why people called this book boring, or shallow, or pointless. Halfway through I started to drift from it, and I considered throwing in the towel. BUT, something I felt from start to finish was that this was an important story. And not because it recounts the most extreme life or has characters that make us want to be better versions of ourselves. I found this story to be profoundly important because it tells a story true to many of our realities: that life isn’t straight, a lot of stuff doesn’t matter, and whoever you think you should be is just rhetoric. While this message may seem nihilistic, it’s actually beautiful.
Here we have characters who exemplify a wide range of humanity and love each other and let go of each other, and who remind us that we’re all just looking for people to survive with and for versions of ourselves that make us feel we’ve lived.
And buried in all that is the ongoing reality that women do, and always have, had a sexuality. It was so comforting to hear a story about a woman who isn’t indifferent to men nor identified through them. She learns what she wants of life, and of men, and how that relates to her womanhood is acknowledged, but it’s also beside the point. Cheers to Gilbert for illustrating the plight of woman without preaching about it, and for creating a character that is so much more than a talking point.
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