Mara Wilson – Cannonball Read 17

Chuck Tingle writes another book you just have to experience for yourself.

Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle

August 13, 2025 by narfna 9 Comments

Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. I’ve been having such a hard time writing this review, and that’s because I know I need to re-read it in order to actually convey my thoughts. The second half of this book, listening to it felt like a fever dream, and I probably wasn’t paying as much attention to it as I should. And unfortunately, I think the second half is when the book is really crucial […]

Non-Fiction Roundup

Life Among the Savages (Jacksons #1) by Shirley Jackson

#IMomSoHard by Kristin Hensley, Jen Smedley

Where Am I Now? by Mara Wilson

Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life by Amanda Stern

Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson

September 16, 2019 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

Now that I’m done with Bingo, I am determined not to let myself get behind on reviews again. I expect this determination to last AT LEAST 3 days, til I leave town for two trips over two weeks, finish 15 books and fall into a black hole again. But first! Some non-fiction reviews. (5 stars) Life Among the Savages (Jacksons #1) by Shirley Jackson Other than a few references (like lighting up cigarette on the way to deliver her third child!), Jackson could have written […]

Female memoirs about growing up in California and then moving to New York written by actresses!

Where Am I Now? True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame by Mara Wilson

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae

May 11, 2019 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

Where Am I Now? 3.5 Stars I enjoyed Where Am I Now? back in CBR8 and decided to revisit it this year as an audio-book. Mara Wilson narrates her memoir which threw me off because the Mara Wilson of 2016 does not sound like I imagined. It’s not like I was expecting her to still have her 1993 lisp but it was still jarring to my auditory system. Most people have embarrassing videos of themselves as children. Few have theirs copyrighted by Twentieth Century Fox. Wilson’s […]

More AIM conversations than I expected.

October 6, 2017 by Blingle Bells 1 Comment

Where Am I Now is Mara Wilson’s memoir – if you don’t remember, she’s the kid from Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire. It’s not a bad book despite the low rating (I’m torn between a 2 and a 3 but since I read it a few weeks ago and remember it with a feeling of mild annoyance, I guess I’m going to round down), it just has the same problems as every memoir by a young adult that I’ve ever read: a lack of/really odd sense […]

I don’t know what to title this but the book was really good.

December 31, 2016 by narfna Leave a Comment

Mara Wilson’s debut memoir is a collection of well-written personal essays and I really enjoyed listening to it, but I didn’t love love love it. Some of the essays were incredibly moving and interesting to me, but others had that problem that I have with a lot of memoirs and collections of personal essays where it seems like it was included to fill space. I just find myself reacting like, okay I guess that was pretty good, but why did it need to be written? […]

“You’re going to fuck up, but most of the time, that’s all right”

December 26, 2016 by Malin Leave a Comment

I wasn’t initially going to get this book. While I’ve seen Mrs. Doubtfire and Matilda, possibly the two films that Mara Wilson is most famous for, I haven’t really watched any of the others she was a child star in, nor do I follow her Twitter or writing career as an adult. It just didn’t seem like this would be all that interesting to me. Nonetheless, this book got a lot of positive write-ups from people with good taste, including Patrick Rothfuss and Wil Wheaton […]

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