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All That Is Bitter and Sweet: A Memoir

Ashley Judd

Hardcover | Pages: 432 pages

Rating: 3.59 | 4195 Users | 506 Reviews

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ISBN:	034552361X (ISBN13: 9780345523617)
Edition Language:	English

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Ashley Judd is an award-winning film and stage actor known for her roles in both box-office hits and art-house gems, and the daughter and sister of country-music royalty. In 2002, drawing on a deep well of empathy, she found her true calling: as a humanitarian and advocate for those suffering in neglected parts of the world. Asked why she was opting out of a successful career, walking away while she was one of the highest-paid women in Hollywood, Ashley herself could not provide an answer. She simply knew that after her first trip to the notorious brothels, slums, and hospices of southeast Asia, her own life depended on advocating on behalf of the vulnerable. Promising each new sister, “I will never forget you,” Ashley began writing extraordinary diaries—on which this memoir is based—expanding her capacity to relate to, and to share with a global audience, stories of survival and resilience. Along the way, Ashley realized that the coping strategies she had developed to deal with her own emotional pain, stemming from childhood abandonment, were no longer working. Seeking in-patient treatment in 2006 for the grief that had nearly killed her, Ashley found not only her own recovery and an enriched faith but an expanded kit of spiritual tools that energized and advanced her feminist social justice work. Now, in this deeply moving and unforgettable memoir, Ashley Judd describes her odyssey, as a left-behind lost child attains international prominence as a fiercely dedicated advocate. Her story ranges from anger to forgiveness, isolation to interdependence, depression to activism. In telling it, she resoundingly answers the ineffable question about the relationship between healing oneself and service to others.

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Title	:	All That Is Bitter and Sweet: A Memoir
Author	:	Ashley Judd
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	April 5th 2011 by Ballantine Books (first published January 1st 2011)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography

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Couldn't even make myself finish this book! Went into it all admiring Ashley Judd for both her talent and her philanthropic work and found myself wanting to throw the book against the wall more than a couple of times until I finally gave up completely. I found her to be pretentious and totally self-absorbed. She really seems to like to play the role of the victim as well. Most of what I read had a real poor me tone to it. Very few of us have perfect childhoods, but unless she left a bunch out,

Ugh. I went into this liking Ashley Judd a lot - I came out much less enthused. At one point in her book, Judd tells Bobby Shriver that her vocation is to make her life an act of worship - I'm sorry to say that she has succeeded in worshiping herself. I have never read a biography that was more full of self-love than this one. She is the supreme example of a person who pursues a life of "doing good" in order to be thought a saint.Walk away very fast.

I want to start a new book group dedicated to the celebrity bio. Who's in?

Yes, I am reading Ashley Judd's memoir. Whatever you may think of her acting(I happen to like her), she has devoted most of her adult life to aiding the poor and disenfranchised and using her celebrity status to bring awareness to topics like AIDS, African poverty, sex trade, etc. It's a sad state of affairs when a "celebrity" like Charlie Sheen gets more press for his behavior than a celebrity like Ashley Judd gets for hers.

Finally gave up on this one. Judd's tone is so absolutely self promoting and full of herself I couldn't tolerate another page. She paints herself as the most emotionally, spiritually and philosophically evolved human on the planet and somehow I just didn't buy it. Her demonization of her family members left me anxious to know their side of the story. I was disappointed. I so wanted to love this book.

I'm really enjoying this book. Don't judge me. I appreciate what she says about the roots of her depression being found in childhood - I can so relate to that - and how acting became a natural way to live other, more satisfying lives, if only for a time. What this book is really about, though, is her work with a nonprofit that seeks to educate women in the global South about HIV/AIDS prevention.

I rarely read memoirs, let alone ones written by current celebrities but Ashley Judd has led a fairly fascinating life. Of course she's an actress that comes from a famous (and famously dysfunctional) family but she has also spent a great many years as a feminist activist, quietly traveling the world with NGOs and coming face to face with the poorest, most exploited people on the planet. And this memoir balances those two lives, providing insight on the tumultuous personal life that formed her