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Jennette McCurdy: I'm Glad My Mom Died (Paperback, 2022, Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing)

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about …

Real life horror novel

This book was so great but also absolutely horrifying. Well written and paced with a gutpunching twist after every chapter. It made me sad, it made me yell out in anguish. The translation (to Swedish, by Julia Gillberg) was good too; a few mistakes but a strong command of contemporary, casual, natural Swedish that reads like talking to a friend. I loved this book.

I never saw any of her shows so this book was my first introduction to this writer. I'm kind of out of touch with pop culture sometimes.

Also the title of this book is something I hesitate to type out and I didn't write it out in full in my techo's book journaling section. The power of names... like how in Sweden we say "brown legs" and "grey legs" instead of certain animal names. Taking the Lord's name in vain is a taboo but invoking the first of the fallen so much more so. And this intense biography has the titular equivalent of stepping on a crack on crack.