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That Thing You Do With Your Mouth: The Sexual Autobiography of Samantha Matthews as Told to David Shields
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David Shields
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Samantha Matthews
In
That Thing You Do With Your Mouth,
actress and voice-over artist Samantha Matthews offers—in the form of an extended monologue, prompted and arranged by
New York Times
bestselling author (and Matthews’s cousin once removed) David Shields—a vivid investigation of her startling sexual history. From her abuse at the hands of a family member to her present-day life in Barce
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This book was very difficult to read at times, but it was so much more than I expected. The author says it's a book about childhood trauma and how it affects adulthood , but it's really about being human and how we move through the world with pain. Very powerful.
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Fantastic read. At times it's rawness is a little unnerving, sort of deliciously uncomfortable. At other moments in the text I feel I'm reading about myself, especially certain honest, confessional passages. None of this memoir of sexuality and sex is contrived, although it could have been. And while raw it is never crass. It might be too much to say healing, but at the very least liberating. The disjointed storytelling works well to build tension as t ...more
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Fantastic read. At times it's rawness is a little unnerving, sort of deliciously uncomfortable. At other moments in the text I feel I'm reading about myself, especially certain honest, confessional passages. None of this memoir of sexuality and sex is contrived, although it could have been. And while raw it is never crass. It might be too much to say healing, but at the very least liberating. The disjointed storytelling works well to build tension as t ...more
Start: I picked this book up based solely on the title and its slim size. When I got home from the library and read the back... I might be in for more than I bargained for. But, I'm trying to read more of different kinds of books this year, so here goes!
Finish: I just didn't get it. I just couldn't relate to almost everything in the book. And I suppose I should count my blessings for that, as much of what she endured was quite traumatic and/or confusing. But not being able to relate meant I also ...more
Finish: I just didn't get it. I just couldn't relate to almost everything in the book. And I suppose I should count my blessings for that, as much of what she endured was quite traumatic and/or confusing. But not being able to relate meant I also ...more
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I had a hard time following where she was going in this book. While I was worried her sharing her childhood trauma might be too graphic or overwhelming, it thankfully wasn't. What was overwhelming for me was her change in story. I realize how this book was put together so I don't know how I expected it to be, but I couldn't follow the jumping around or keep any of the characters straight. It's not an awful book, but it's not one I'll recommend ...more
I had a hard time following where she was going in this book. While I was worried her sharing her childhood trauma might be too graphic or overwhelming, it thankfully wasn't. What was overwhelming for me was her change in story. I realize how this book was put together so I don't know how I expected it to be, but I couldn't follow the jumping around or keep any of the characters straight. It's not an awful book, but it's not one I'll recommend ...more
This was a raw look into this woman's private thoughts. Like listening to her stream-of-consciousness rant in one sitting. Or a therapy session. Enticing and mysterious and human.
I'm a fan of Shields project to use the written world to illustrate reality. Reality literature may be the proper and necessary anecdote to reality TV.
The book was compelling to read. I had a hard time putting it down before bed. The feeling that I got from the book is that there is no difference between us as people, we are all the same. We are broken in our own ways even if its not abuse. I enjoyed the book.
Disclosure I received my copy from a Goodreads Giveaway.
Disclosure I received my copy from a Goodreads Giveaway.
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David Shields is the author of fourteen books, including Reality Hunger (Knopf, 2010), which was named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications. GQ called it "the most provocative, brain-rewiring book of 2010"; the New York Times called it "a mind-bending manifesto." His previous book, The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (Knopf, 2008), was a New York Times bes
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