Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
Written by Jennifer Weiner
Narrated by Jennifer Weiner
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About this audiobook
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay * Nominated for “Best Memoir & Autobiography” by Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 * Named a “Best Book of the Year” by New York Post
"You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to read it again." —TheSkimm
“I'm mad Jennifer's Weiner's first book of essays is as wonderful as her fiction. You will love this book and wish she was your friend." —Mindy Kaling, author of Why Not Me?
"Fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave." —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild
Jennifer Weiner is many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and an “unlikely feminist enforcer” (The New Yorker). She’s also a mom, a daughter, and a sister, a clumsy yogini, and a reality-TV devotee. In this “unflinching look at her own experiences” (Entertainment Weekly), Jennifer fashions tales of modern-day womanhood as uproariously funny and moving as the best of Nora Ephron and Tina Fey.
No subject is off-limits in these intimate and honest essays: sex, weight, envy, money, her mother’s coming out of the closet, her estranged father’s death. From lonely adolescence to hearing her six-year-old daughter say the F word—fat—for the first time, Jen dives into the heart of female experience, with the wit and candor that have endeared her to readers all over the world.
Jennifer Weiner
Jennifer Weiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-one books, including The Summer Place, That Summer, Big Summer, Mrs. Everything, In Her Shoes, Good in Bed, and a memoir in essays, Hungry Heart. She has appeared on many national television programs, including Today and Good Morning America, and her work has been published in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, among other newspapers and magazines. Jennifer lives with her family in Philadelphia. Visit her online at JenniferWeiner.com.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A very touching book on the author’s life experience and on how she found her prince despite all the toads. I too have fell in alot potholes in life still trying to navigate around them. It gave me hope. Thank you for a wonderful read
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved this honest, compelling story. I feel like I spent the weekend with a good friend. I’ve read all her books but this makes me want to re-read them, the first time not having know what a great person she is!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jennifer Weiner was the featured speaker at the Library’s Author Gala several years ago, and this memoir came out after that. I wish I had the opportunity to read it before I met her, because I would have so many questions! Weiner’s fiction is funny and frank, and so is her memoir, dealing with body image, parenthood, heartbreak, difficult parents, Twitter, and more. The audiobook is read by the author
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I very rarely read non-fiction and even more rarely read autobiographies but I love Jennifer Weiner's books and found it interesting that such a young person would have a story to tell. I was stunned. I couldn't put it down and feel a little bit of a voyeur...that was totally unexpected. Through laughs and tears we find a courageous woman who says things like they are.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Author Jennifer Weiner's memoir is more like a collection of topical essays than a strictly chronological autobiography, with issues ranging from the shallow (e.g., her love affair with reality TV shows) to the intensely deep and personal (e.g., her fraught relationship with her mentally ill father). The book starts out seemingly straightforward and chronological, talking about her early years growing up. Much of this part (about a tenth or so of the whole book) is about how she never felt cool enough or thin enough to fit in anywhere. While this should seem fairly universal, the very specific situations mentioned made it feel less so and I was getting a bit tired of hearing how she always felt the other kids in her social sphere weren't hanging out with her because she was overweight. As I was listening to the audiobook version of this title, I found myself flipping back to the radio fairly often because I was frankly a little bored with hearing yet another high school drama incident that should have stayed behind in high school.But after this, the book really picked up speed for me as Weiner discussed a number of interesting stories from her early career, first as journalist and then as a budding novelist. From this point on, Weiner's tone goes from accusatory and bitter about past slights to jokingly buddy-ish with the reader. It's a nice shift, and Weiner reading the book aloud does an excellent job. She broaches happy and unhappy romantic relationships before talking about motherhood in frank and honest ways. In a heartbreaking tale, she relates the details of a miscarriage, noting how these stories are frequent occurrences but rarely shared. Her voice wavers as she reads this section, and I think it would be difficult to find a soul untouched by it. On more lighthearted notes, Weiner writes an essay on her love of Twitter, which gets a bit much when it becomes a long litany of her reading past tweets solely about the reality TV show The Bachelor, and another about traveling with her lovable but flaky younger sister. And then she follows up with another difficult piece when she writes about her father, who she became estranged from later in life after gambling, compulsive spending, drug use, and mental illness (precisely which one is never mentioned, unless I somehow missed it) leave him a shell of his former self. Throughout the book, Weiner takes up her feminist mantel and talks about topics that concern her in our current culture. Why are her stories about women, relationships, and love downgraded to the literary ghetto of "chick lit" while men's stories on similar topics can be considered worthy enough to be esteemed "literature"? Why is socially acceptable for male journalists to make sexist comments or ask shockingly inappropriate questions of female celebrities? Body image is a frequently mentioned issue, whether it is her own struggles with weight, her concern for her daughters growing up in a society that values the way women look more than their intellect or character, or her thoughts on judging a beauty pageant. Her opinions are clearly set and articulated (and happen to align with my own for the most part), but I think her opening up this line of conversation will allow readers to think and debate with and among themselves.Overall, I quite enjoyed this book and recommend it, especially the audiobook version.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Found parts of the book entertaining others drug on a bit. Liked her theme of strong women being comfortable with who they are and their bodies. I don't tweet, but her chapter on this intrigued me and due to all of Trump's tweets I now scan the site without being a tweeter - very interesting to follow!