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Before proceeding with this review, I want to share this:

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” - Thomas Jefferson

Demakis, Joseph. The Ultimate Book of Quotations (p. 506). Unknown. Kindle Edition.

Why did I use the above quote? Well, the word honesty sums up my reaction after reading (and listening) to Sally Field share her life with us, the word honesty comes to mind, front and center.

Let me interject this: I got this book largely because the star of Gidget was my standard for gauging every woman I dated. Yes, I realize how naiive and chauvinistic this sounds. But it is honest.

See, even though Gidget lasted only a year, I fell just as in love with that actress as my older brother loved Annette Funicello. Funny thing is, Ms. Funicello really was the wholesome, God-loving angel she came across as, while Ms. Field was more identical to Sybil, the fictional character she starred as. THAT is the beauty and worth of Fields’ autobiography, “In Pieces.”

BLUSH FACTOR: Be forewarned, you will not be wanting to read this to your prayer group due to the number of f-words and honest language. I do heartily recommend discussing it with others though, especially in AA or similar settings. Note also there is frank discussion of child abuse she suffered and other similar issues. As I stated, you probably will not want to read this aloud to young ears.

Despite, or perhaps because of, my learning who the real Sally Field was, I loved this book. I woke up early to download it today and read it for an hour or so. Then, went back to sleep. Then resumed reading, and listening to the Audible edition as I readied for, and drove to work. This is THAT engaging.

Excerpt

To avoid any spoilers, I have kept this excerpt extremely short.

‘…But I wanted to be a child—and yet.

I’m naked. How did I get naked? Did I do that? Did he? He pulled the plastic bags off the dry cleaning that hung in the closet with the sliding doors, the sliding doors with big mirrors on them. He wraps the plastic bags around me—just so. Through my legs, around my chest. He lays me down on the white shag carpeting in the big bathroom and gets into the adjacent shower.

“Okay, Doodle, let me see. Move.”

The merengue. I am learning to do the merengue. The dance he showed me one night in the den with everyone watching as he instructed. I practiced in the den and now I’m practicing here.

“Come on, let me see.”

I push my face down into the carpet that smells of dust, trying hard to thrust my butt high in the air and down and side to side. I want to be good, but more than anything I want it to be over. And some part of me feels I’m in danger. I hold my face deep in the shag. Hide in the carpet. Not to be at all anymore—and yet. And yet…

This man’s focus is totally on me; at this moment, I’ve won him. I am flypaper, the sweet sticky temptation, and he’s caught…’

Field, Sally. In Pieces (Kindle Locations 838-847). Grand Central Publishing. Kindle Edition.

BOTTOM LINE

A definite eye-opener. Five stars. Do yourself a favor and buy add the Audible edition to your purchase. This autobiography is beautiful, sometimes hilarious, and haunting all at the same time.

Five stars out of five.

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In Pieces Sally Field Author 9781549143076 Books Reviews

Sally Field’s remarks after winning an Academy Award for Places In The Heart, “You like me, right now, you really really like me.”, rings so true once you have read Sally Field’s new autobiography. As a young child riddled with something she had no idea what it was, this anxiety about everything, only the presence of her mother could calm. Sally Field relates the times in her life that reflect who she really is. I received an early copy of this memoir.

Sally looks back at her entire family, her mother and all the women in her maternal family, by reading old journals and letters. Her mother divorced her father when Sally and her older brother were very small. They lived in an all woman household, mom, grandmom, great grandmom and aunts. They saw their father less frequently, so it was these women who formed their lives. From her childhood through her entire life, her mother Baa, as they called her, was the one person who Sally depended upon. Growing up, the start of the acting bug grew stronger, until Sally found her place. Two Academy Awards, three Emmys have sustained her, and given Sally the impetus to understand what a superb actress she is.

All the while through two marriages and three children, Baa was there. Caring for the children when needed, moving in and out. Family is important to Sally, and regrets she has a few and would love to do over. Her stepfather Jay Mahoney brought love and something else more sinister into her life that would change her attitude and direction. It also instilled a need from her mother that was unfulfilled until later on when her mother was diagnosed with metastatic cancer. But. Sally Field is persistent, she knows her strengths and weaknesses, she understands the role men have played in her life. At the same time, she has always been independent earning her way and bringing up her three boys.

We meet the people in her life, her loves, her disappointments, her worries and anxieties. She reveals it all because she was not sure she would publish this book. She wrote this book for herself. This is a deep glance into Sally Field’s life, and when I was finished I felt like a catharsis had been performed. We all have hopes and dreams, and those areas of our lives we wish we could do again. Sally Field has given us hers, and it is a memory I will not soon forget.

Recommended. prisrob 09-18-18
Never can imagine what people have gone through until you hear their story. I had a horrible childhood,five sister's that got through it too,without them I don't think I could have made it out sane,maybe I haven't! This book opened my eyes to lots of angels to see life's problems,I guess we all have crosses to bare. I want to thank Sally for writing this,so talented but not without problems herself,love her!
Wow! I actually read this engaging, honest and illuminating memoir in one sitting. The brutal honesty and objectivity that Ms Field displays in openly discovering and relating her life-long battle with self-esteem and why she's the person that she is is refreshing and helped me to see some of the same traps I've also fallen into in my own life. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has come from a family that hides it's secrets or where abuse was present. I really admire Ms Field's life-long struggle to become the person she always knew was in there somewhere.
Before proceeding with this review, I want to share this

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” - Thomas Jefferson

Demakis, Joseph. The Ultimate Book of Quotations (p. 506). Unknown. Edition.

Why did I use the above quote? Well, the word honesty sums up my reaction after reading (and listening) to Sally Field share her life with us, the word honesty comes to mind, front and center.

Let me interject this I got this book largely because the star of Gidget was my standard for gauging every woman I dated. Yes, I realize how naiive and chauvinistic this sounds. But it is honest.

See, even though Gidget lasted only a year, I fell just as in love with that actress as my older brother loved Annette Funicello. Funny thing is, Ms. Funicello really was the wholesome, God-loving angel she came across as, while Ms. Field was more identical to Sybil, the fictional character she starred as. THAT is the beauty and worth of Fields’ autobiography, “In Pieces.”

BLUSH FACTOR Be forewarned, you will not be wanting to read this to your prayer group due to the number of f-words and honest language. I do heartily recommend discussing it with others though, especially in AA or similar settings. Note also there is frank discussion of child abuse she suffered and other similar issues. As I stated, you probably will not want to read this aloud to young ears.

Despite, or perhaps because of, my learning who the real Sally Field was, I loved this book. I woke up early to download it today and read it for an hour or so. Then, went back to sleep. Then resumed reading, and listening to the Audible edition as I readied for, and drove to work. This is THAT engaging.

Excerpt

To avoid any spoilers, I have kept this excerpt extremely short.

‘…But I wanted to be a child—and yet.

I’m naked. How did I get naked? Did I do that? Did he? He pulled the plastic bags off the dry cleaning that hung in the closet with the sliding doors, the sliding doors with big mirrors on them. He wraps the plastic bags around me—just so. Through my legs, around my chest. He lays me down on the white shag carpeting in the big bathroom and gets into the adjacent shower.

“Okay, Doodle, let me see. Move.”

The merengue. I am learning to do the merengue. The dance he showed me one night in the den with everyone watching as he instructed. I practiced in the den and now I’m practicing here.

“Come on, let me see.”

I push my face down into the carpet that smells of dust, trying hard to thrust my butt high in the air and down and side to side. I want to be good, but more than anything I want it to be over. And some part of me feels I’m in danger. I hold my face deep in the shag. Hide in the carpet. Not to be at all anymore—and yet. And yet…

This man’s focus is totally on me; at this moment, I’ve won him. I am flypaper, the sweet sticky temptation, and he’s caught…’

Field, Sally. In Pieces ( Locations 838-847). Grand Central Publishing. Edition.

BOTTOM LINE

A definite eye-opener. Five stars. Do yourself a favor and buy add the Audible edition to your purchase. This autobiography is beautiful, sometimes hilarious, and haunting all at the same time.

Five stars out of five.

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