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A review by anxietygirl74
You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories by Gabrielle Union
3.0
I listened to this one right after finishing We’re Going to Need More Wine…the vibe of this one is drastically different. My only gripe with WGTNMW was the constant time jumps…I prefer more linear stories especially when it’s a “life” story. This book seemed a lot more disjointed. We got a little new motherhood, a little perimenopause…a tiny bit of family life and a whole lot of justified anger. I’ve always been of the mindset that just because someone is famous they do NOT owe the public their personal life….will I read a “tell all” book and enjoy it…yes I will…but they don’t owe it to me. She starts and ends this book talking about vulnerability….but it’s not actually shown much within the stories although it is possible her and I have different ideas of what constitutes vulnerability. I had hoped for some insight into forgiveness but outside of a brief mention of Dwayne’s ability to so easily father another child and that if the same situation happened now she doesn’t think she’d take him back, that whole situation is studiously avoided. Just by her own stories the relationship seems lopsided so I don’t get it, but it’s not my relationship