Grace After Midnight: A Memoir by Felicia Pearson
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Book Reviews of Grace After Midnight: A Memoir
Book Review: Bodymore, Murdaland
Summary: 4 Stars
Where the boundary lines of art and life intersect stands Snoop. A mind-grabbing account for even the unfamiliar reader becomes riveting to a fan of "THE WIRE". Watching the show I had the feeling Snoop the actress was too authentic to have been strictly portraying a fictional character born in the pages of a script. Her auto-bio piece confirmed what I'd suspected.
Thinking as a fan, I was somewhat disappointed by the books length - who could blame me for wanting to know more? However, the quality of the storytelling, done in the understated manner of many a street player that's secure in who they are and what they've done, gives depth to the words. Making length a non-issue when all is said and done.
Snoop being "discovered" by Michael K. Williams/OMAR the way she was is the ultimate testimony to the philosophy that fate is only the beginning of good fortune. Being in the right place at the right time isn't enough. When the window of opportunity opens you also have to be prepared to jump through -- something Felicia Pearson has done both feet first!
Like a fiend in "Hamsterdam" that picked up the needle, once I started the book I couldn't put it down. Finished it up in one sitting on a Saturday morning. If you decide to pick up this book, don't have plans for a while; you'll be like "Old-Face Andre" or "Little Kevin" were in one of those abandoned buildings... hemmed up with no hope of getting free.
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Book Review: Hardhitting and brutally honest
Summary: 4 Stars
I am a huge fan of The Wire and Snoop was one of my favorite characters, in a show with a slew of interesting characters. Even though she played a female assassin, there was still something likeable and funny about her.
The only thing that disappointed me about the book was she did not get to how she got her role on The Wire until about 220 pages into the book. I would have thought her experiences on The Wire would have been the heart of this autobiography. But it is only the final few pages.
I don't know much about David Ritz, the co-writer of this book, but he did an excellent job. The voice is Snoop's (or Felicia Pearson). Her life is one surviving on the drug infested streets of inner Baltimore. She is honest and unapologetic about her homosexuality. She is going to be herself and she doesn't care what others may think. And while she still seems to me like a dangerous person if you got on her bad side, I couldn't help but admire her after reading her story.
Book Review: Grace After Midnight
Summary: 4 Stars
The main conflict in the book is about a girl "snoop" who is going through things in her life like Identity, Drugs, Jail the real life period. When snoop was young she didn't know what she wanted to be. A tomboy or a girly girl but she chose what she wanted to be. With that came drugs and sex that led to jail. 15 years it took her to clean up her act. When she got out she decided to get a job. This didn't work because of her record. The ending, well lets just say u would be surprised.
In the book I like that it had street doing ness. I liked anything that has to do with real life and the life on the streets. I didn't like how the men didn't treat her good because she chose to go a separate gender. Let her live her life. And how people wont get passed the fact that she has a record but she is willing to do good. I would recommend this book to people who like books about life on the streets. Those kinds of books in general.
Book Review: Wired Grace
Summary: 4 Stars
I really liked this book. I have been a fan of The Wire since day one and Pearson does a good job on the show. When I found out that she was writing a book I was hesitant. I didn't want to hear confessions of murder and the likes and I wanted to preserve my feelings for the show. I am pleased to say that this book was nothing like I thought it would be. I was captured and held prisoner by this book and I read it in a weekend. You never really know what people have on their hearts and this book is a reminder of that. Pearson had it rough, but still not as rough as some. Pearson at least had people in her life that loved her genuinely and who wanted to see her do good. Mistakes are mistakes and we all pay for them be it in the bricks and mortar of a prison cell or the prison of our minds. I am so glad that she wrote this book and hope that it has helped someone make better choices. I'm not a drug dealer, but it touched me and made me think.Book Review: Grace After Midnight
Summary: 4 Stars
The main conflict in the book is about a girl "snoop" who is going through things in her life like Identity, Drugs, Jail the real life period. When snoop was young she didn't know what she wanted to be. A tomboy or a girly girl but she chose what she wanted to be. With that came drugs and sex that led to jail. 15 years it took her to clean up her act. When she got out she decided to get a job. This didn't work because of her record. The ending, well lets just say u would be surprised.
In the book I like that it had street doing ness. I liked anything that has to do with real life and the life on the streets. I didn't like how the men didn't treat her good because she chose to go a separate gender. Let her live her life. And how people wont get passed the fact that she has a record but she is willing to do good. I would recommend this book to people who like books about life on the streets. Those kinds of books in general.