Acquire Today Melissa Explains It All: Tales From My Abnormally Normal Life Devised By Melissa Joan Hart Issued As Ebook

Joan Hart, you are no Jodie Sweetin, I was surprised on how disappointed with Hart's biography, She has achieved a lot, and I will give credit when it's due, but she was very selfcongratulatory, It became tiresome very fast, Also, her name dropping got very annoying, Some people she named that she didn't really know, Hart named them because of the caché of their name,

I've read many memoirs but this one made me cringed, She does or did drink a lot and experiment with different drugs, How professional is it to be high on a photoshoot That was ridiculous and it could have cost her so much if she had gotten caught.
It wasn't because she was clever but because Hart's trangressions bappened just so that they were missed, They were like ticks between a clock,

Also, for a book that generally follows sequential order, it felt very disjointed, I always have liked Melissa Joan Hart but when I saw her during a signing at a bookstore, I found her unlikable.
This was how her memoir was: unlikable and insincere, That was a letdown. Melissa Joan Hart comes across as arrogant and selfinvolved in this book, When she's not name dropping, she's calling her classmates stupid and commenting on how cheap other actors are, She comes across as a mean person, I get the impression she always has to be right, and if you don't agree with her then her assumption would be there is something with you.
Before reading this book I was impressed that she was one of the child actors who seemed to transition into adulthood in a nondramatic fashion, and while I will still give her credit for that, it is really the only thing that is admirable after reading this book.
She does not come across as humble or sincere, which was a disappointment, Melissa Joan Hart needs to step off of her high horse and realize she is not normal, She also needs to get over herself, Her book was so boring because her life did not warrant the need for a book, I have been a fan of hers since 'Clarissa Explains It All' but not sure I'd count myself as a fan after reading this book.
Her views on life are skewed but she's too self involved to realize it, Perhaps the failings of this memoir should be blamed on the second or third pair of eyes that reviewed MJH's writing.
My recurring thought as I read was: she could have used a better editor, I don't doubt the former child star has stories to tellwho wouldn't, with her resumebut the stories are jumbled, the writing isn't concise, and you get the sense that she's writing more for herself than the audience she purports to be reaching.



There have been few moments where I've felt any connection to her "by the bootstraps" upbringing, and in fact, her whole life seems more privileged than she claims.
This memoir seems to be more of an attempt to completely paint over the clean image that came with her association to Sabrina and in trying so hard to reintroduce herself as a wild child, she loses all of the charm that made me want to pick up this book in the first place.
In fact, she even ends the book with the thought in the last chapter about washing away her "Pollyana image.
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The incessant name dropping we get it, you ran with the elites, the constant reassurances that she was indeed into tequila shots and shrooms, and the frequent reinforcements of gender stereotypes felt exhausting and overdone, and by the end of each chapter I just felt sorry for her.
It

felt like she was trying to prove she HAD been offered big roles and that it was her choice she wasn't as big of a star she says she didn't want to be.



I don't know how much truth there is to some of her anecdotes several of the names she's dropped have come out and criticized her inaccurate retellings of events, but I'm not interested in a followup if one happened to come along.
" but with my first significant smooch out of the way, I was free to make out to my Hart's delight.
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Sentences like these are what make this book a fail,

Like other reviewers mentioned, Melissa breezes over her time as Clarissa and even Sabrina, leaving out the fun details that most fans sought when picking up this book.
To top it off, she jumps around constantly in one chapter she talks about beingand in the next she talks about beingand then jumps back again.
I'm not sure why she couldn't keep her memoir in chronological order, After realizing I had made it half way through this book with nothing interesting, I then hit the snooze fest of her marriage how many pages can one person write about her husband's obsession with college football and her quest to be the perfect "football widow"

Melissa, please stop explaining.
Call Corey Feldman and let him explain instead, It was okay. I enjoyed the beginning with her talking about being on Clarissa and Sabrina, I liked the end with her talking about her husband and trying to be the mom that has it all while shooting in LA while her husband and kids are in Connecticut.
She is really easy to relate to and I enjoy her voice, I don't feel like she dumbs it down or preaches things to me or is all high and toity.
Only thing I didn't like was her twenties, because I felt she spent half of those chapters talking about how she was a good girl and half of those chapters talking about how she was not so I am left with the impression there was a lot about her twenties she left out of here.
Which is okay, I'd do the same if I was to write a book I could tell with her family she left a lot out too but that makes sense because I'm sure a lot of those stories were not hers to say.
That said, she wrote how she hated kissing James Van Der Beek on tv atand how Danny Masterson was very touching feely at ageand how she made out with Jerry Connell the day she met her husband or the night before don't remember and all that made me laugh so maybe I should bump this up to.
stars. Not the worst celebrity bio I've read, I feel like this is a big, guilty embarrassment, But I must press onward, I READ MELISSA JOAN HART'S MEMOIR, There, I said it. And what a poor choice I made,

I don't need to explain much about the bookit's written by Melissa Joan Hart, child star of Sabrina and Clarissa Explains It All, whom I fondly remember from my childhood days as a spunky, cool girl.
It seemed like a great idea to read her memoir and hear about how great it must have been to work on those shows robot cat puppets and Caroline Rhea YESSSS.


So I was very shocked by what I actually got, The book is slimpages, but this little book manages to be bloated, and that's one of its biggest problems.
In fact, I'll start there, Now, the reason that MJH is famous Those two TV shows I mentioned earlier, You would think those would get the majority of the text devoted to them or, in the very least, two significant sections because they're really the reason we care enough to buy her memoir.


But what do we get Two very short chapters that whiz through her experiences which lasted a combinedoryearsof her life, providing few interesting details or anecdotes from either show's production.
What we're left with is a general statement along the lines of "oh, I had a good time and people were nice".
That's the best you can do for the two careercreating/defining moments of your life

In general, the book moves sequentially, and it doesn't take long for it to annoy.
MJH was, of course, a TV commercial star from a very young age, and the opening chapters devoted to these times are sickeningly selfcongratulatory.
All she wants to do is tell her devoted fans about how hard she worked and how "real" her life was as a child: her work ethic is so strong and she was so full of charm that she wowed everyone from such a young age.
The subtitle of this book is "Tales from my abnormally normal life" and that is something she feels it's necessary to stress over and over again.
It was surprisingly grating and something I wasn't expecting,

There's a bizarre amount of namedropping, too, moments where Hart is eager to remind us about her famous life where she knows all of the other 's sitcom kids and she partied with Mr.
X and made out with Mr, Y and Bill Murray was the first person to know she was pregnant after they golfed together and she starred with this relativelyforgotten person in a movie you maybe saw.
It's an uncomfortable combination of "look, I'm relevant" and "see how more culturally relevant I am than him!",

By the time we're halfway through the book, we've finished talking about her fameinducing career, "What else does the book talk about" you ask, "LOL," I respond. There are a variety of things MJH sees fit to discusslengthy discussions of her relationship with her husband, which she is oddly defensive of I'm talking multiple assertions of how great her marriage is, a whole chapter about her husband's passion for the Crimson Tide, a section about her desire to throw a good party but her inability to do soand they're just boring.


What's most disappointing are the moments when Hart has a flash of really great humor, They're disarming because of how different they are from the drively moments of narrative where Melissa wants only to tell us about how great she is.
There was potential for her to write a great, really funny book here, and the glints of that behind the annoyingly flavorless fluff serve only to darken the rest of the book and show how weak it really is.


Unless you're one of her superfans who Googles her regularly, don't waste your time,

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