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I enjoyed her first book Unbelievable so decided to give this a listen. Focused mostly on her family I thought it was good.

I really enjoyed Tur's first book, "Unbelievable," and I really enjoyed this one as well. Tur has a fascinating family history.

No one can choose the gifts of their childhood. But everyone can work to reject its worst lessons.

🤣 Here, Tur is referring to the time that her parents filmed the O.J. Simpson chase.

I liked Tur‘s first book quite a bit. In that book she briefly mentioned her parents and I wanted to know more about them. They were the first to report news from a helicopter with Katy in tow and delivered a number of important videos to news outlets. This book provides greater detail on her childhood, her troubled relationship with her father, her marriage, having children, and the pressure of delivering news even when things are surreal.

Reading about the kindness, stability, levelheadedness, and support that Ron Howard‘s father provided and then moving on to reading about the angry, violent, adventurous, self-pitying father of Katy Tur is jarring. Both of their fathers were in the same line of work as their children and offered such a different approach to mentoring their children.

I went to journalism school (but work in PR) so I love a journalist memoir. Katy Tur grew up around the news, with infamous parents who invented helicopter news reports in Los Angeles, famously covering OJ‘s Bronco chase, She is now an MSNBC anchor and her husband is on CBS. I enjoyed learning more about her career, her difficult childhood, and my favorite chapter was her worries about going on, and returning from, maternity leave.

#Two4Tuesday on Sunday bc I just realized I never posted this!

1. Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones. I‘ve read it multiple times and always love it.

2. memoir of an unconventional childhood

It‘s an interesting book about a very courageous woman and to a large extent her relationship with her father. That relationship helped and hurt her in different ways and is perhaps the reason that she is able to have the courage to speak truth to power. Trump attempted to bully her but she was inoculated from most of that by her father as is explained in the book. She was nevertheless put in serious danger by it. It‘s an inspiring book.