Book #65 |
Book: Finding Me | Author: Viola Davis | |
| Source: Library book Format: Audiobook |
Pages: 289 | Duration: 08/03/25 – 08/05/25 (3 days) | |
| Rating: ★★★★★ | Genres: nonfiction, memoir, biography, feminism, African American | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Viola Davis bares her soul in her rags-to-riches, hate-to-love story. 🖌6-word review: Good writing. Hard passages. Fascinating woman. |
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| 💭A favorite quote: “There are decades of suppressed secrets, trauma, lost dreams, and hopes. It was easier to live under that veil and put on a mask than to slay them.” | |||
| 🎓Some new-to-me words: “the haints” | |||
| Description:* In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn’t always see me.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: I love Viola Davis and remember being riveted by How to Get Away with Murder when I watched it — and her. She narrated this audiobook, which won her the 2023 Grammy for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording, and which earned her the coveted EGOT status, becoming the third Black woman in history to achieve the honor. It was a dramatic reading for sure, but as good as it was, I still had to listen to it at 1.5x the recorded speed, because I’m just that impatient. My favorite scene was when she went to her interviews to get into Julliard, which traditionally took 3 days, but she told the committee, “I have to work tonight, and I have a 4.5-hour train ride home, so I need your decision in 45 minutes.” You go, woman! | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
