Inside Out (Disney Pixar: Big Golden Books)

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I thought that this book was pretty good. It was a little slow paced, but I ended up enjoying it. It was a very easy read. You wanted to keep reading it to find out what would happen next. Demi Moore, the once highest paid actress in Hollywood.....disclosed private details and name dropping that became off-putting.

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None of her three beloved daughters are speaking to her. She has two divorces under her belt. Her health is playing up. It seems that everything and everyone is conspiring against her, and she wonders why she struggled so hard to end up somewhere which was so far removed from where she wanted to be in her life. Ashton wasn't compassionate, got busy with other things, and became less and less present. Eventually Ashton cheated - twice - and the couple's marriage ended. Around this time, Demi's use of alcohol and recreational drugs increased, leading to an estrangement from her children. Demi writes, "The girls were angry I'd become so dependent on Ashton. I was addicted to him is the best way I can put it, and I did all the things that addicts do. I prioritized by addiction over my needs and the needs of my family."

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Regardless of my disinterest for the movie, we found the little junior novelization for cheap. So my bro and I decided to read it and judge it. Together. Haha. All this was too much for Ginny, who - when the family lived in Pennsylvania - tried to kill herself. Demi writes, "I remember using my fingers, the small fingers of a child, to dig the pills my mother had tried to swallow out of her mouth while my father held it open and told me what to do." This turned out to be the first of Ginny's many suicide attempts, and Demi remained constantly on the watch, feeling she had to 'help her parents clean up their messes.' It's truly amazing she survived such a hardscrabble life with a volatile mother and found her way to Hollywood. Her young marriage makes sense and I wonder what would have happened to her if she hadn't been successful on General Hospital. Demi writes a good deal about her relationship with Ashton: the early euphoria; their decision to wed; a miscarriage when Demi was almost six months pregnant; their attempts to conceive again, including fertility treatments and IVF; incorporating threesomes into their sex life; and their eventual divorce. Demi's story is one I recommend to all. Huge thank you to her for writing and sharing her heartfelt journey. Long may she continue to find happiness, peace, and acceptance of the things she cannot change, because she deserves it. I wish her the best.

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Also important is that all of Riley’s emotions are purely reactive. They are simply responses to external stimuli, not the least of which are the emotions of her parents. This misplaced emphasis on externals is surprising, given the professed aim of the film: to look at human experience from the inside out. Demi Moore is the same age as I am, so I could relate to to the time she grew up in. Her parents were very young when they had her. And her early life was full of domestic drama and frequent moves - just ahead of the law. Demi's brother Morgan was born when she almost five, after which the Guynes' left New Mexico. Demi observes, "Soon after [Morgan] was born we left Roswell for California, the first of a series of moves that would define our childhood. My mother figured out that my dad was having an affair, so she did what she'd been taught to do by HER mother when your husband is fooling around. She got him away from the problem. It did not seem to occur to the women in my family that if you took your cheating husband along when you left the problem came with you wherever you went." People I would recommend this to would be every teenager because of the fact that we all think that our life is hard and nobody understands. If teens are able to enjoy and read this book it would show that maybe your life is great and that you should appreciate what you have and what you don’t have. Throughout the story there are characters I found to like and others that I didn’t care for that much. As an example I would have to say that a character I couldn’t connect to was the character "Joey". There is just something about his personality that I strongly disagree with.The idea is that giving Joy an inordinate place is unreality. All emotions are important and therefore to be valued and given an airing. And then there was her discussion of Ashton Kutcher. I realize that the end of their marriage was one of the more difficult periods of her life and that there may be some resentment. And honestly her discussion of infidelity didn't bother me at all. But there was a scene where she blamed him for the fact that she chose to drink alcohol again after being clean and sober. This really bothered me. It is not responsible to put that burden on any other human being. I understand that we can trigger one another and that is especially true in close relationships. However, it is important that we take ownership of our own failings, weaknesses, addictions... This book is told from the point of view of Zach, the main character. The two gunmen, Alan and Joseph Mender, are also important characters. Alan and Joseph are unusual criminals, is that they are brothers who are about Zach’s age. The author uses mainly indirect characterization to describe everybody.