Reviews for I Thought I Grew Up

The average rating for I Thought I Grew Up based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-06-03 00:00:00 Waechter Madeleine I wanted more. Memoir by a single woman, undergoing menopause and trying to find love and meaning in it somewhere. Love the New York settings.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-01-13 00:00:00 Charles Bartholomew I was expecting to like this book much better than I did. A woman's memoir told through the voice of her wardrobe from her 1950's Midwestern childhood as the oldest of five children to her discovery of Marimekko while at Harvard in the 1960's to her stints in London, New York, and beyond as a writer and dancer in the 1970's, this book started off promising--sort of the literary embodiment of looking at old photographs of aunts and mothers and grandmothers and wondering just what stories were behind their mid-century get-ups. It starts to meander, though, and it became too esoteric for me in trying to discern the voice of the wardrobe vs. the voice of the actual author. It was an interesting and whimsical experiment, to recount one's life through the voice of one's wardrobe, but I think it would have been better suited as a magazine article rather than a full book.