Review: Good Girls Don't - Mara Wilson

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Where Am I Now?' Mara Wilson Explains What Happened When Matilda Grew Up : NPR




Review: Good Girls Don't - Mara Wilson - April 2023

One of my reading goals for 2024 is to read more non-fiction as over the past years, I have just been more focused on fiction reads. I have aimed to read a minimum of 12 non-fiction books over the year. My first one was a celebrity memoir from Mara Wilson who we know mostly for her role as Matilda. Mara also starred in Miracle on 34th Street, Mrs Doubtfire, and A Simple Wish. In this memoir, Mara talks about the pressure of being a Good Girl in Hollywood and how even the slightest untoward step can turn you into a bad girl or in her case a spoilt brat. She talks about how her life changed as her mum died when she was filming A Simple Wish and the impact it caused on being out in public and all they could see was Matilda and the image of her rather than Mara herself. I felt for Mara as she was going through her grief as a child and still having to have this perfect image for the world as they saw Matilda as a role model. The other part of her book also talked about her interactions with other actors including Robin Williams and Francis Capra who we all know as Weevil on Veronica Mars, to her being brought up Jewish and then coming out of the closet as a queer/bisexual- though she prefers the term queer. If you love celebrity memoirs, then Good Girls Don't is the read for you as this one flowed brilliantly and felt like a quick read too. Also, I love reading memoirs as they personalize the celebrity and make them seem more of a "real person" rather than just a Hollywood star.

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