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Finding My Balance: A Memoir

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Heartwarming insight into the experiences of one cool lady. I admit to following Mariel's (and Margaux') career since before "Lipstick" and I read the book in one session. Very touching, and Mariel really lays a lot of personal pain and joy bare for us to see. A great book for anyone juggling family problems, a difficult adolescence, food demons, and facing adversity. I sure hope the future is kind to Mariel and her family.

In this touching, informative, truthful story about Mariel's own life is a compelling story I couldn't put down. For any fans of hers, you are going to love this book and won't be ab le to put it down.

I loved this book! Mariel opens her heart to her readers and lays it all on the line. I identified with her and was able to learn some new methods for handling some areas of my life that parallel hers. This is a wonderful and sincere book!

I hope that in the future she writes a book on yoga and that she writes another book where this one left off.

Mariel Hemingway has done much good with her
yoga work and writing.
I love this type of candid writing from such a
clear and peaceful soul.
It may not be a profound or complex work.
But memoirs are not meant to be. She is
sharing intimate experiences of her own
and her families lives.
This is profound enough.

She does know how to share her true life
adventures with us with feeling,
ideas that are a light on our own paths of life.
She keeps on track and there is no fluff in this book.

Also recommended; Autobiography of a Yogi,
by Paramahansa Yogananda.

I admire mariel for writing her memoir. I couldn't wait to read it because I too come from a background very similar to hers, although I have never lived in the public eye. I wanted to read her story because I knew I was really going to identify with it, and I did, I feel a lot of the same pain that she does. I had trouble with the Yoga though, I think it's great that it is so comforting for her and I am most likely going to try it out now myself. I just found myself skipping over all the detail on each movement.

This is a show-biz "memoir" of the most terrifying kind ... badly written and leaving readers with two questions: "Why did she write it?" and "Why did I read it?" Hemingway uses the practices and lessons of yoga as a way of telling of her tales --- which, if you believe the hype, "is a searing honest memoir that is firmly practical." That's "firmly" as in the way Hemingway discusses her [breast] job, going so far to admit that whenever she met a friend, she'd lift up her shirt to give the bosom buddy a peek at her "prizes." Her chapter on the death of sis Margaux is an insult and embarrassment, shrouded in new-age babble such as "I gradually began to let go of Margaux's karma, realizing that her pain and problems were hers and not mine." And you wonder why Mariel has no career left.

A touching, honest and personal story of one of the most respectable person in Hollywood.A heartwarming and, at times, painful journey and self discovery of Mariel Hemingway. A true gem for readers of all ages and backgrounds. A very intelligent and thought provoking book. A must have. BUY IT !

Being a fan of Ms. Hemingway's film work for several years I was pleased to learn that she had written her memoir. Ms. Hemingway's story of survival and discovery was both a thought provoking and moving read. She openly shares the blessing and the curse of her famous family ties and the lessons gained by years of living in emotional upheaval. The yoga metaphor used throughout the book works well and ties each chapter neatly together. All in all an inspiring autobiography by a very talented and strong woman.

The most searingly, brutally honest book in a decade! Startling, informative, every page riviting! A 'must read" for any intelligent reader willing to learn from this ladies life and the lessons she has overcome!