This is a reread and I thought I'd written a review before, but apparently not. I first read the physical book a couple years back and to be honest, didn't really enjoy it that much. It was fine, but I love Lauren Graham and wanted to love her memoir. I thought maybe I'd like it better listening to her audiobook, so I tried it that way and not so much. I just don't really like this book.

It's kind of annoying? Like I really just felt a little annoyed by her style throughout. There were interesting moments and stories within, but she has a very jumpy style that breaks the fourth wall a lot and I just didn't really enjoy that.

She also has kind of a judgy vibe. Like there's one chapter (I forget the title- Old Mrs. Somebody, I think) where she basically just says a lot of judgmental things, most of which are without merit. Like she complains about people being on their cell phones too much and having to lock hers in the trunk of her car so she doesn't check it while driving. Which seems very much like a her problem? A lot of people don't have to do that. They just don't look at their phone while driving. She also complains a bit about tattoos and piercings and a number of other things. It all just gave me such a negative vibe.

I also had trouble fully buying into what she said a lot. She talked about how in interviews, you can only talk about your cast members by describing yourselves as one big happy family, regardless of the truth, because anything else is really rude. Which I totally get. But then she went on to talk about how the cast of Parenthood was one big happy family.

I really did try so hard to love this. I'm still planning to read her first novel and hopefully I'll like that better.