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one starts off with nuggets of momentum, and then gains more and more, as it goes along, Funny and sad. Really enjoyed it. Read over a few months, heartbreaking stories, Could relate to it all, Quirky. This was a very moving book as she recalls family tragedies and how she overcame them, She also shares funny stories about her career, an enjoyable read. I enjoyed this memoir of Mariette Hartley, She wrote about her families problems with alcohol addiction and the suicide, She dealt with them honestly, poignantly and humorously, He grandfather was the bahaviorist, John Watson, and she implies that some of the family problems stem from that no touch approach to childrearing,
I didn't know much about her or even that she was a movie and TV star, My expose to her was this August at the NAMI National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Conference in San Francisco, She was the keynote speaker and she spoke about her families problems with alcholism and suicide with sadness yet filled with wit, Of course she was selling her book too,
She also talked about a book, Little Bee, I read and discussed with the Hayward Library Most Literary Fiction Group, She read this quote,"On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars, I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the and the moons on your dress I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here to please agree with me that a scar is never ugly.
That is what the scar maker wants us to think, But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them, We must see all scars as beauty, Okey This will be our secret, Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying, A scar means, I survived, "
She felt that it was one of the most beautiful thing she had read, We all suffer scars and need to look on them as beauty marks, When I purchased the book I told her that I had read "Little Bee" and remembered that quote, She asked me if I thought that the book had a happy ending, I

said that I thought that it had a sad ending and she said that I should read the first chapter again, Which I did and now I think that "Little Bee" had a happy ending,


Welldone, Mariette, Brave woman, and such a gentle soul,
In Breaking the Silence, Mariette opens her life glamour and faults, joys and traumas, for all to see,
Well written and funny too! Damage by behaviorists, I remember seeing Mariette Hartley on T, V. when I was a kid, Recently, she has reappeared on television narrating the TV show "Wild about Animals", She seems supernaturally young looking much the same as she did in the's, I found her to be smart and witty in this memoir, Her unusual childhood and strange grandfather, Big John were fascinating, Her father and mother both had personal demons that made them less than ideal parents, She had an early abusive marriage, Later, she had a successful marriage and career, I found myself skimming through her detailed childbirth account, Sometimes, the timeline in the book was hard to follow, Overall, I enjoyed the book, She seems to have overcome her traumatic early years with courage,grace and humor, Her Polaroid commercials with James Garner and her Emmy Awardwinning television performances have made funny, charming Mariette Hartley one of America's favorite, But hidden behind her high good humor was a family legacy of abuse, suicide, and alcoholism that nearly destroyed her, Growing up the privileged granddaughter of pioneering psychologist John B, Watson, who preached that children should never be kissed, hugged, or even touched, Mariette went from days of martinis, tweeds and roses in suburban Connecticut to madcap nights in Hollywood, outwardly leading a charmed life.
Inside, though, her family secrets and abusive husband were pushing her toward tragedy, Filled with wit, humanity and marvelous inside stories of Hollywood and television, Breaking the Silence is the story of Mariette's triumphant journey to hope, courage and a happy new life a work as warm and engaging as the woman herself.
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