Mommie dearest

NO WIRE HANGERS! Crazy book. I couldnt put it down. "True" story of Joan Crawfords adopted daughters abusive upbringing.

I simply could not put this book down. It was just one thing after another with how mean that woman could be. I had a bad relationship with my mother, and I felt Christina's pain. This is definitely a book that everyone should read.

Joan Crawford is one of thos old actresses I don't know much about and haven't seen many of her films, so it was sometimes hard to picture her when I read about her in this book written by her daughter.

Sometimes a hard book to read. Christina (or Tina) had a strange love/hate relationship with her

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mother. She portrayed herself as the perfect child, always trying to please her mother and not succeeding only because of her mother's unrealistic expectations and drunkenness. But you've got to wonder if she really could have been such the "Perfect" child she described. I don't doubt that it was hard to be the daughter of a movie star and a movie star that sounded as though she had some sort of self-worth issues.

Some of the book sounded a bit too much like whining: "I had such a hard life..." That's what you get with autobiographies though!

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Oh the joys of not only being famous but being bat nuts crazy. Sad and unfortunate that children who are born into this world reap the whirlwind their parents created.