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Managing Expectations
A Memoir in Essays
Author: Minnie Driver
Narrator: Minnie Driver
Unabridged: 6 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 05/03/2022
Author: Minnie Driver
Narrator: Minnie Driver
Unabridged: 6 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 05/03/2022
Minnie Driver is an English and American actress, singer, and songwriter whose films include Circle of Friends, GoldenEye, Big Night, Grosse Pointe Blank, Sleepers, Ella Enchanted, The Phantom of the Opera, and most recently, the Amazon Original film Cinderella. For her role as Skylar in Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting, she was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has also starred in several television series, including The Riches, for which she received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations, Speechless, Will and Grace, and Amazon’s Modern Love. She has also recorded three albums, Everything I’ve Got in My Pocket , Seastories, and Ask Me To Dance all of which received considerable critical acclaim. She lives in Los Angeles.
Charming and moving and very well written, this memoir by the actress (and musician) Minnie Driver is a series of ten essays which start in childhood when she is an unhappy boarder at her school in Hampshire (not too far from where I live), and finish with the poignant and wise (without being sentim......more
This celebrity's guardedness and walls are way up as we learn very little about Minnie Driver in a disappointing autobiography that only gives glimpses of her life story. There are just 5 or 6 real stories within, the rest of it being small thoughts about different times of her life with few specifi......more
Minnie Driver's Managing Expectations was recommended by many trusted book friends and it's a well-written and at times, very entertaining book, if not particularly insightful. I listened to the audiobook which is narrated by Driver herself. I liked parts of it a lot - particularly the last essay ab......more
I always want grown-ups to like me but find it difficult to behave in a way that seems to consistently please them. Grown-up love appears to be very conditional, and they are not conditions I can really abide by - not for long, anyway. One minute they’re laughing at the fact that I know what “exi......more
TITLE: Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays AUTHOR: Minnie Driver PUB DATE: 05.03.2022 Now Available A charming, poignant, and mesmerizing memoir in essays from beloved actor and natural-born storyteller Minnie Driver, chronicling the way life works out even when it doesn’t. REVIEW: I am a fan of......more