Vanilla books

 I'm glad my mom died -Jenette McCardy I didn't watch Jennete Mc Cardy's show, but this was such a hard-hitting memoir, as she recounts her life as a child actor and her childhood where she constantly sought love from her mother, not realising how awful her mother is. The book went on to discuss her time on the 'Sam and Cat' show and how her eating disorder took a toll on her mental health. I loved how Jenette writes so engagingly, and I didn't want to put my e-book down as I was so engrossed in her easy-flowing and captivating writing style, which captures your attention. The title hits hard after reading the book, knowing how much it must be difficult for someone to navigate about the place she put her mother as a child and revisit the trauma to realise how much her mother was a toxic presence in her life, from pushing her into acting to encouraging her anorexia. People seem to assign thin with “good,” heavy with “bad,” and too thin also with “bad.” There’s su...