I decided to give audiobooks another whirl after dropping the first one I read almost immediately. I think it's good to listen to author narrated "productions," especially when the writer is a performer. As much as I enjoy the dish, I often find fault with actor/comic authored works because they feel so transparently for the money and/or attention. I'm confident I would have enjoyed Have I Told You This Already? far less if I'd read it. I might not have finished it, but listening, I took pleasure in having Lauren Graham, who is my age, in my ear while I walked some of the same streets she described now and again. Though most of her essays take place in LA, where Graham has lived for most of her adult life (her first roommate there was Connie Britton!), she does end the collection with "New York Is a Person."

Anyway, the essays tell of her life before and during and maybe a bit after her successful acting career--she's now acting and sometimes directing The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, which I imagine leads to a different kind of fame than Graham enjoyed while on The Gilmore Girls and Parenthood. While there are self-conscious references to needing to finish the book and essays that are pure filler, it's still a solid listen.