Jill Nicely

from a match to a flame

Revisado: 03-04-23

It started with coffee. Jess Davis was having coffee at her favorite coffee shop with her best fiend Fizzy, and he came in again. Every day at the same time, one Americano, and then he leaves. And when Fizzy points out that Jess was staring at him, she reminded Fizzy that she is a single mother and not interested in hooking up with some random guy in a coffee shop.

So Fizzy had to talk to him. She had heard it through the coffee shop grapevine that Americano was a matchmaker, so she stopped him and asked about it. He said that he worked at a startup that matched people based on genetic profiling technology. He handed Fizzy his card and invited her to come and take a tour of the company. She could even give him a sample (they used spit) and see if she had any matches. It didn’t take long at all before she dragged Jess out to the headquarters of GeneticAlly, to meet with the man who favors those Americanos, Dr. River Pena.

Dr. Pena pawns them off on the woman who does their marketing, for the spiel and the tour. Since Fizzy is a romance novelist with a large online presence, they are hoping she’ll influence her fans to sign up when they go live. Fizzy finds the idea interesting and offers up her DNA sample. Jess, who overheard Dr. Pena on her way back from the bathroom call her “entirely average," is less impressed. But later, after she goes alone to a school meeting at her seven-year-old daughter' Juno’s school and sees all the happy couples there with their kids, she starts to reconsider her reluctance to sign up for a matchmaking opportunity that has fallen into her lap.

While Fizzy has been rolling in new matches, having set her threshold low enough for the most basic of matches, Jess wants to be more discriminating and find a quality match. She has a daughter to think about. She doesn’t just want to have fun anymore. Jess wants a true partner. Not that she thinks GeneticAlly will really be able to help with that.

Then Jess got the message. In the app, it asked her to call the office at her earliest convenience. Then they wanted her to come in. They sent a car for her. They brought her to a meeting room and introduced her to the executive team. One of the mentioned he knew who she was as a friend of his was one of her clients. That made her think that they wanted her services as a freelance statistical analyst. But no. As it turned out, they found her a match. It’s the highest match they had ever made, a Diamond Match, 98 out of 100. And who did Jess match with? None other than Dr. River Pena.

As the company is preparing to go public, they are looking to build a positive public image. The executives think that having Jess and River get to know each other a little and do some interviews and investor events, then GeneticAlly will be set up for success. Jess has seen enough of River’s “charms” to know that this is not for her. He’s a jerk, and she wants no part of this.

But then she loses a bog account. And while she still has enough to get her and Juno by, there will be more expenses in the coming months. Ballet lessons, braces. Eventually, college tuition. Kids are expensive. So when the company suggest they offer her a stipend for a few months, to free up some time for her to spend time with River, she has to think about it. She has to think a lot. But the truth is, she is curious about the match too. She’s a statistician, so she wants to know more about their match. And she is lonely. If somehow the numbers are right and she and River are that much of a match, could he really be her soulmate?

The Soulmate Equation is another lovely romance from the writing team known as Christina Lauren. They have created a story about matchmaking that is fresh and original, and they told the story through captivating characters who feel real and dynamic and carry the story through every page. This book is smart and sweet and spicy, and it might just make you believe in love again.

I listened to the audio book of The Soulmate Equation, narrated by Patti Murin. I thought she did an amazing job with these characters, making them seem genuine and caring. She does an exceptional job with Jess especially, bringing her to life in a way that makes you feel like she could be the person sitting at the table next to you. Between Lauren’s writing and Murin’s narration, this story feels possible and charming and hopeful. I have to admit that I’m not sure I’m completely on board with the genetic testing as a basis for matchmaking, but I adored these characters and was grateful for every moment I got to spend with them.

Egalleys for The Soulmate Equation were provided by Gallery Books through NetGalley, but I bought the audio book through Audible myself.

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fly swatter

Revisado: 03-04-23

All we have to do to find lies and BS these days is to turn on a device. Social media is filled with “influencers” who make their opinions seem far more interesting than the truth. Newscasters offer up stories that have no context, so the truth gets skewed or entirely lost. Politicians flat out lie. Advertisers and marketers encourage us to override our better judgment to spend money on things that we don’t need. And sometimes it’s even family and friends who become true believers and start to spread the bad information themselves.

The BS is everywhere.

But there is an antidote. Professor of experimental social psychology John V. Petrocelli meets the BS with intelligence, perception, and the scientific method. He goes deep into the BS to find out why people say the crazy things they say and to help the rest of us deal with it. He studies BS for a living, so he understands that there is a cost to dealing it, whether it means you’re spending too much on a car, dealing with the effects of investing with someone like Bernie Madoff, or just trying to decide which politician to vote for.

Petrocelli uses psychological concepts to explain how we fall under the influence of BS, like confirmation bias, cognitive dissonance, and our tendency to conform to what we see others doing. But understanding the rhetoric and other tricks that others use to trick us, we have another tool to protect ourselves from getting pulled in. And he has another tool that he uses. When he’s analyzing something that he thinks smells like BS, he has a system for how strong the smell is. His BS Flies Index assigns 1-3 flies to the lies, depending on just how strong the BS is.

Now, the next time you’re faced with a flat Earther you have information to counter that. A cousin who still thinks vaccines cause autism? You’ll have it covered. Your best friend is getting ready to pop the question and has to buy a ring? You can help get the best price. When your coworker makes you watch their favorite TED Talk on intermittent fasting, you can do more than just roll your eyes. You can figure out for yourself if the information is true for yourself.

I listened to The Life-Changing Science of Bullshit on audio, and narrator Larry Herron made this book sound accessible. He’s conversational and natural, and I was especially impressed with his impressions of recent Presidents. He can bring the derision when it’s warranted, and makes clarifying the facts sound doable, even against an ocean of BS.

I thought this book was fascinating. In the current political climate, having skills like these is invaluable. And for dealing with all the information on the internet, this book is really helpful for dealing with all the insanity and misinformation. Even just watching the news brings up so many questions that a book like this is necessary. It would actually be a good book to revisit every few years, to learn all these concepts again and to remember not to let your guard down against all the BS out there in the world.

Egalleys for The Life-Changing Science of Bullshit were provided by St. Martin’s Press through NetGalley, with many thanks, but I bought the audio book myself through Audible.

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starting off with a bang

Revisado: 03-22-22

Kinsey Millhone is 32. She starts off by explaining that she’s a private investigator licensed by California, that she’s been divorced twice, and that she recently killed a man. And that first paragraph starts a book and a series that goes on to shine with a power and a brilliance that few other book series can achieve.

But first, the crime.

Nikki Fife has just been released from prison, after serving eight years for killing her husband. Now she’s out, she still claims that she’s innocent, and she wants Kinsey to find out who killed Laurence Fife. A prominent divorce lawyer, he was known as much for his personal dalliances as he was for being a bear in court. Nikki had only been married to him for four years. She had known about his affairs, but she hadn’t cared. It was how she’d met him, actually—she was his mistress when he was still married to his first wife Gwen.

Laurence had been killed with a contaminated allergy pill. Someone had laced one of his pills with oleander, a toxic plant that grows wild in California. Kinsey thinks that the case was pretty straightforward. She had been at Nikki’s trial. Laurence had hired Kinsey a time or two on his divorce cases. But what didn’t come out at the trial is that there was a woman in Los Angeles who had been killed the same way, shorty after Laurence Fife had been.

Libby Glass was young, mid-twenties, working for a business management firm that was putting all of the files for Laurence and his partner Charlie Scorsoni onto computer. Santa Teresa Homicide Detective Con Dolan had suspected that Libby had been having an affair with Laurence, and that was why Nikki killed her too. But he couldn’t prove it. He couldn’t prove a connection between Libby and Laurence, other than her work product, so it was left out of the trial.

But now Kinsey is on the case, and she’s not interested in stopping until she finds out what really happened. Her investigation takes her from Santa Teresa to Los Angeles to Las Vegas, tracking down the family and former boyfriend of Libby Glass, Laurence’s former secretary, and even his ex-wife and her kids, and it ends with Kinsey putting all the pieces together and finding the true killer, and then almost losing her own life in the process.

A Is for Alibi is the first book in the iconic Kinsey Millhone series. I first read this decades ago, when I was in my 20s and figuring out what I liked to read after all those classics I had to read in college. I fell in love with her almost immediately, and I more years than not, I would start the series all over again when the latest letter came out, so this is the Kinsey book I’ve read most often over the years. It’s been many years since I found the time to pull it out and revisit it, so this year I decided to try something new: an audio book.

I listened to A Is for Alibi, narrated by Mary Peiffer, and I loved it. Listening to this book is just good, old-fashioned fun. While some of the book is a little dated now, but hearing this story in Kinsey’s voice, her snark ringing through loud and clear in each moment, is a treat better than a peanut butter and pickle sandwich (seriously, who eats that?!).

But my favorite thing about A Is for Alibi, and all of Sue Grafton’s delicious novels that come after, is how Kinsey meticulously goes through the case, tiny piece by tiny piece, double-checking everything. Sue Grafton leaves the tiniest trail of bread crumbs, and as I’m wondering how all this could possibly come together into a cohesive crime, Kinsey is suddenly gluing all those tiny breadcrumbs together and creating a beautiful mosaic that fits together like magic. I love Kinsey Millhone, I love this series, and getting to listen to it read to me has been a fantastic experience. I definitely recommend this one on audio.

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more like big secrets

Revisado: 08-07-20

Marin Machado knows heartbreak. It was only days before Christmas when she was shopping and her son was abducted by a man in a Santa suit. The police have it on a security tape, her adorable 4-year-son, with a lollipop in one hand and Santa’s gloved hand in his other hand, walking right out the door. Of all the people there that day, shopping, working, getting ready for the holidays, no one saw who was in the Santa suit.

Before that moment, Marin had a great life. Married to her college sweetheart, she runs hair salons used by the rich and famous of Seattle. Derek is handsome and runs his own million dollar company. They have their beautiful son Sebastian and a gorgeous house.

And in an instant, it’s gone. Sebastian is gone, and Marin and Derek have to figure out a way to go on.

A month goes by, and the FBI inform them that they have no new leads. The case will stay open, but they have nothing to investigate. Marin loses hope.

Months go by. Maris and Derek try to get through each day as best they can. Marin joins a support group of parents with missing children. Derek refuses to go. Marin hires a private investigator to go over Sebastian’s case again, but she keeps that from Derek. And then the investigator finds something. Apparently Derek’s been keeping secrets from Marin too. Kenzie is an art student with pink hair and lots of Instagram selfies, and Derek is sleeping with her.

Marin has to decide if she wants to quit or fight for what’s left of her family, if she’s going to admit to her secrets to find out all of his. And when she decides to stay and fight, she finds out that there are so many more secrets than she ever imagined.

Jennifer Hillier’s Little Secrets is a powerhouse of a family thriller. It’s not an easy read, as the kidnapping of Sebastian is difficult to read about, but if you can stick with it all the way to the end, the novel does bring about some resolution to the most painful story lines (seriously, I was almost ugly crying in my cubicle as I got near the end of the novel). Just like her Jar of Hearts, Little Secrets is an honest, earnest look at the secrets we keep, the truths we tell, and the lies that rip us apart.

Little Secrets is beautifully written, but reading it is a challenging emotional experience. I listened to the audio book, read by Kristen Potter. I thought she did a really good job telling the story, but there were moments when I felt she was a little overly cynical for the characters. I don’t want to say it was an enjoyable experience listening to this book, because there is so much that you have to bear with this story. But if you’re looking for a tear-jerker, a powerful story of a family on the brink of destruction, then Jennifer Hillier is the author you’ve been looking for.

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whispers from the past

Revisado: 07-02-20

If you leave a door half open, soon you’ll hear the whispers spoken . . .

Single dad Tom Kennedy is trying to start over. After his wife died suddenly of a heart attack, Tom wanted to move himself and his son Jake away to a new place. Jake helped him pick out the new house from the photos, and Tom is hoping that the new school will help. But something isn’t quite right. Jake struggles at his new school and starts talking to “invisible friends.” And Tom catches a strange man skulking around the house and trying to break into his garage. Tom starts having nightmares and hears the house making strange noises.

But the police don’t take him seriously until he figures out what it is in the garage that’s s valuable.

Detective Pete Willis never completely recovered from the case of a young boy who went missing decades before. Now there is another one missing, and Detective Amanda Beck is on the new case. But clues are thin, and as the days tick by, she fears that her chances of finding the boy alive are receding. Their paths cross with that of Tom and Jake, and pieces of the puzzle fall into place.

The past mixes with the present. Reality mixes with dreams. There are butterflies, children’s rhymes, a man in jail with answers who refuses to help. All the pieces are there, but can the police put them together in time to protect the next little boy from The Whisper Man? Or will it be too late?

Alex North’s The Whisper Man is a complex tale of terrible crimes, mixed with family secrets, haunted by ghosts, and rich in redemption. We all tell kids that monsters don’t exist, but they do. And sometimes, those monsters come after us. Part thriller, part spooky story perfect for a campfire, The Whisper Man is a beautifully written story of the monsters among us and the heroes willing to take them on.

I tried to read this book and struggled, but once I started the audio book, I was hooked. It helped that one of my favorite British dramatic actors, Christopher Eccleston, narrates it to perfection. The Whisper Man is spooky, brilliant, powerful, moody, thrilling, and genius. If you don’t mind a book that might keep you up at night, The Whisper Man is a must-read.

Egalleys for The Whisper Man were provided by Celadon Books through NetGalley, with many thanks, but I bought the audio book myself, thanks to Audible.

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a jarring story of redemption

Revisado: 06-23-20

Geo was just a teenager when she met Calvin. He was older, darkly mysterious, sexy. He wanted to drink, to party, to be physical. Geo wanted that, but she also had homework. She had cheerleading practice. She didn’t want to disappoint her father, who has raised her by himself since Geo’s mother died when she was just a kid. Geo was intrigued by Calvin, drawn to him, but a little scared of him too. But as a girl in high school, she had no idea what he would become.

In high school, Geo was best friends with Angela Wong. Angela was beautiful, confident, the captain of the cheerleaders, and the girl most boys would give anything to go out with. There were three of them who would hang out after school—Angela, Geo, and Kai, who had a crush on Geo and was one of her best friends. They would get drinks at the 7-11 together. They did homework together. They went to parties together.

And then Angela just disappeared. And Geo’s life was never the same.

Now Geo is older. She graduated from high school, went to college, got a good job, got engaged. She’s a rising star at the pharmaceutical company where she works, taking the company is new directions and planning a wedding with the CEO of the company. She had put her past behind her and moved on to bigger, better things.

Until the day Kai showed back up.

Now a detective, no longer a teenager with a crush, Kai shows up in Geo’s life for a purpose: to arrest Geo. The remains of their best high school friend have been discovered, behind the house where Geo lived back then.

Calvin, now known as the Sweetbay Strangler, has killed more women. And Geo is testifying against him as part of her deal. She testifies at his trial, goes to prison for 5 years, and her role in Angela’s death is forgiven. Legally, anyway. It will be years before all her shameful secrets come to light. But they will. The truth always comes out.

Jar of Hearts is a complicated, dark story about the secret shames we carry and what we are willing to sacrifice to save ourselves. Author Jennifer Hillier brings these characters to life, with all their frailties and strengths, and takes readers on a journey through darkness to humanity, through grief to redemption.

This is not an easy book. It’s not a lightweight, fun thriller. It goes to dark places, and HIllier does not shy away from them. There are scenes of sexual assault and violence, both inside the prison and outside. This is not a book you can read and set aside. It will live inside you, both the darkness and the light, and forever leave its stamp. I’m not saying not to read it, because it is also beautiful and lyrical and powerful. But I know that it’s not for everyone, and if you’re one of those people who don’t want to go there, there is no shame. No judgment. I’d rather you know before than halfway through that you’re reading the wrong book.

I listened to this on audio, and narrator January LaVoy did a lovely, unflinching job narrating a book with some very difficult scenes. So if this book is for you, audio is a great way to go. But be warned—the ending of my audio had an excerpt for her next book, Little Secrets, and the beginning of that one is even more compelling than Jar of Hearts. Books can be a dangerous drug!

Galleys for Jar of Hearts were provided to me by St. Martin’s Press through NetGalley, with many thanks, but I bought the audio book myself through Audible.

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getting it in the end

Revisado: 06-05-20

Adrian Mole, twice-married, father of 3, writer, intellectual, bookshop worker, frequent urinator. He lives next door to his parents in a renovated pigsty. Although he doesn’t always agree with their choices, he does love them and helps take care of his father, who has been in a wheelchair since he had his stroke. He lives in Leicestershire, in the middle of England. It’s where he was born and grew up, and after spending several years in London as a younger man, he is back home where he seems to belong.

He is married to Daisy, a beautiful Mexican-English woman with strong opinions, and their daughter Gracie is a free-thinker who keeps getting in trouble at preschool for not wearing her uniform. Adrian works in the town’s bookshop, and is currently writing a play for the locals to put on, a 60-role work of historical fiction, Plague. And he’s having some health concerns, so he tries in vain to make an appointment with his doctor. After he goes to an after-hours clinic and finally makes it to his doctor’s office for a follow-up, he is faced with the bad news: prostate cancer.

As he considers his options, family and friends gather near to help. He gets in more help at the bookshop, his mother offers to take his to his radiation treatments, and Daisy gets a job to help with the expenses. He has to set aside his work on Plague for the time being, but everyone in town is quick to ask him about his prostrate cancer (after a few times, he stops correcting them) and to offer words of kindness.

And all of it is captured in his diary.

The last in the series of the beloved Adrian Mole diaries, Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years finishes the journey that we started with Adrian back when he was only 13 3/4. Author Sue Townsend brings the tale full circle, with Adrian learning how to love his life, love his parents, and love his future.

I have read all of the Adrian Mole books, most of them several times, and I never tire of spending time with Adrian and his friends and family. For Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years, I listened to the audio book, and narrator Mark Hadfield brought the story to life for me in the most enjoyable way.

If you’re not familiar with Adrian Mole, I’d suggest you start at the beginning, but you don’t have to. Each of these 8 books is a masterpiece of dry English understatement, of family and all its complications, and of one man’s secret thoughts. Each book is moving, charming, funny, frustrating, and perfectly lovely, and now that I’ve reached the end (again), I’ll just have to go back to the beginning and start all over again.

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you can go home again, but should you?

Revisado: 06-04-20

Jo never wanted to move back to her childhood home. In fact, she moved to the other side of the world to get away from it. In California with her husband and daughter, Jo had a happy life, far away from the childhood that caused her so much pain. And then it fell apart. Her husband was killed suddenly in a car accident. They had no savings nor insurance, as he was trying to set up his own business and everything was going toward that. And then Jo’s immigration status was revoked, and she had no choice but to return to England, to her childhood home, to Lake Hall, where her mother still lives.

When Jo was a child, she had a beloved nanny named Hannah. Jo adored her and the special relationship that they had. Jo’s mother Victoria didn’t like Hannah as much. She felt like Hannah was coming between her and her daughter. But then Hannah mysteriously disappeared, and Jo was devastated. Victoria hoped that they could repair their relationship at that point, but instead it just drove them further apart. As adults, that mother-daughter relationship is still strained. But Victoria does have a glimmer of hope—her ten-year-old granddaughter Ruby.

Victoria adores Ruby, and Ruby draws closer to her grandmother in a way that Jo isn’t completely comfortable with. But with no money, Jo has to find a job, and that means she needs help watching Ruby. So when Jo’s former nanny Hannah shows back up in their little town, it’s perfect for Jo. Her beloved nanny can now watch Ruby for her, and Jo can go to work and try to rebuild hers and Ruby’s life.

But is Hannah really who she says she is?

A grisly discovery in a nearby lake, human remains with a skull that was clearly broken, raises questions about who the woman claiming to be Hannah is as well as who was killed and dumped in the lake. As the investigation goes on, more and more secrets are brought to light, and Jo finds that everything she thought she knew about who she is and what happened in her childhood is in question.

Gilly Macmillan is a master of modern thrillers, and The Nanny is no exception to her exciting, twisty thrill rides. One revelation after another spins the story in new directions, and each new uncovered secret brings gasps and goosebumps in this complex story of family, class, and burning resentments. If you need a roller coaster family story to help you pass some time this summer, The Nanny should be high on your list.

I listened to this on audio, and that was an especially fantastic way to be immersed in this story. The chapters are told from different perspectives through time, and narrators Clare Corbett, Patience Tomlinson, and Ben Eliot take turns to bring this story to life in a beautifully dramatic fashion. This one is highly recommended.

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haunted by the past

Revisado: 03-03-20

Fiona Sheridan had only been 17 when her older sister Deb had been murdered and dumped in a field outside of the defunct Idlewild School. That was 20 years ago, and Fiona still isn’t over it. Deb’s boyfriend at the time, Tim Christopher, had been convicted of the crime and served his prison sentence, but he always protested his innocence. Fiona never bought it. So the day Deb would have turned 40, Fiona finds herself once again on that creepy road outside of Idlewild, and that’s how she found out that someone had bought the school and was getting ready to refurbish it.

Back in 1950, the school had been a boarding school for wayward girls. Katie Winthrop had been a spirited kid, strong willed and stubborn and able to get other girls to follow her lead. Cecelia (Cece) Frank was the bastard daughter of a rich man, her mother a housekeeper. Roberta Greene had been a good kid until she saw her WWII veteran uncle try to commit suicide and stopped talking for several months due to the shock. And Sonia Gallipeau, a European refugee from the war, where her father had been placed in Dachau concentration camp.

At school, the girls had been there for each other, helping where they could and filling their time by reading a contraband copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover and telling ghost stories of Mary Hand, who was rumored to be buried on the grounds and was seen on occasion by Idlewild girls. Through the decades, the students left notes to each other in their textbooks, telling of ghost sightings and helpful ideas to help them get through the boredom of their classes. But eventually the girls grew into women and moved on, and Idlewild closed.

But now, someone has bought the long abandoned school and started construction, trying to bring it back to life. However, the construction doesn’t get very far before they find the body of a girl buried in an old well on the school grounds. The tag of her sweater still has her name: Sonia Gallipeau. And just like that, Fiona and her journalist instincts are on her way to finding out what else happened on the grounds of Idlewild School.

Simone St. James’ The Broken Girls tells the story of Fiona in 2014, still haunted by her sister’s murder and trying to find the truth of what happened to her, while also trying to find out what exactly happened back in the 1950s that ended up with a beautiful young girl getting killed and hidden in a well. There is a supernatural aura to this novel, along with the investigation, and there are a lot of smart, determined women who aren’t afraid to do things on their own terms. I love that!

I listened to the audio book on this one, and narrator Rebecca Lowman really took me to Vermont, where I lived in the past and the present through the voices of these young women. I loved it, and I recommend the experience of The Broken Girls on audio!

Galleys for The Broken Girls were provided by Berkley through Edelweiss, with many thanks, but I bought the audio book myself through Audible.

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an actor writes

Revisado: 03-03-20

Leslie Odom, Jr. may be best known as Aaron Burr in Broadway’s Hamilton, but he’s had a lot of other roles on his journey to get there. He’s been a son, a student, a token black man, a husband, a father, and an actor in television, commercials, films, and on the stage. He draws on all that experience in his book Failing Up.

Packed with good advice for artists of all kinds, or really, for individuals of all kinds, he offers up excellent ideas for moving forward in a creative career, putting your best foot forward, and taking action even when the phone isn’t ringing. He had strong mentors, so he gives us some of the guidance they shared with him as well as the obvious good advice: get yourself some strong mentors.

Sharing memories from growing up, including his stint in Broadway’s Rent as a high schooler, on through his time on the stage for the smash musical Hamilton, Odom, Jr. shares his thoughts on taking chances, giving up, and being true to yourself.

Leslie Odom, Jr. shares a lesson from his life, along with a personal story to illustrate his point. Not so much a typical memoir as a handbook for living as a successful artist, Failing Up reads a little like a commencement address. But, a really good one. And with the audio book read by the author, it’s about 3-and-a-half hours of good advice for living from someone who has made the most of some amazing opportunities.

This would be a great gift for fans of Hamilton, for wannabe actors or artists, or for anyone who enjoys a good book about how to live a better life. The wisdom and graciousness of Failing Up make this as effective as a self-help book as it is a memoir, and Odom, Jr.’s experiences make for powerful life lessons for us all.

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