Reviews for Cohn-Head: A No-Holds-Barred Account of Breaking Into The Boys' Club

The average rating for Cohn-Head: A No-Holds-Barred Account of Breaking Into The Boys' Club based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-04-26 00:00:00 Chris Stange I really wanted to like this. I did. I like supporting women in sports and the parts about her career had some interesting moments. But she really should've hired a ghost writer. Her writing is just.... flat. It works well for TV and radio, but is a complete slog to read through in book format. It's a journalistic reporting style in a memoir. Doesn't really work. Even when she does talk about how she felt about her marriage or bumps in her career, there's a distance there that makes it feel emotionless even as she spells out her emotions. I haven't watched her on ESPN much, so maybe if I was a fan I'd like it more. I was reading as a woman in the entertainment industry who also likes sports. It was valuable in showing me that I don't love sports enough to succeed in sportscasting. And again there were interesting parts. But it took me a really long time to read for a book of this length, which is always a bad sign.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-01-26 00:00:00 Maria Cortese I read a lot of those hockey "auto"-biographies allegedly written by a player, coach, or other such individual - who actually sat down with some sportswriter, provided some background, and then let him or her do the actual writing. I enjoy the material, even though I know that the personality's words were interpreted by some professional journalist or other writer. Cohn-Head is just like that - sort of. But different. Linda Cohn's claim to fame isn't her hockey playing days, even though she did spend time in high school and college between the pipes for the school's team. It's that she's a journalist. SO ... the book goes off in different directions, and the author really IS the author, without someone else trying to organize her thoughts and put them in sentences that sound like the book's subject actually wrote them. Linda Cohn shows herself to be a lot more than "just" the pretty face on SportsCenter. As stated earlier, her love of hockey comes honestly with a college hockey background. Her carerr shows the benefit of hard work ... and breaks ... and not giving up because an earned opportunity doesn't come OR a challenge arises OR ... Before I read this book, I thought that Linda Cohn would probably be a very interesting person to have a lengthy conversation with - after reading this book, I know she would be Perhaps the only weakness in the book is the weak ending ... but even there, it shows that her life and career is still moving forward, and picking a certain period of time to write your memoirs does not mean that the moment is going to end on a momentous event that wraps everything up! It's a quick read. Read it. P.S. Several of the reviews I've read mention Linda's self-admitted self-absorbtion. Yes, the book centers around her - but it's her frickin' autobiography, what did you expect / want it to be about??