Rememberings

by

Audiobook

Published by HMH Adult Audio.

Audible ASIN:
B08WJRFPCM
3 stars (2 reviews)

Blessed with a singular voice and a fiery temperament, Sinéad O’Connor rose to massive fame in the late 1980s and 1990s with a string of gold records. By the time she was 20, she was world famous - living a rock-star life out loud. From her trademark shaved head to her 1992 appearance on Saturday Night Live when she tore up Pope John Paul II’s photograph, Sinéad has fascinated and outraged millions.

In Rememberings, O’Connor recounts her painful tale of growing up in Dublin in a dysfunctional, abusive household. Inspired by a brother’s Bob Dylan records, she escaped into music. She relates her early forays with local Irish bands; we see Sinéad completing her first album while eight months pregnant, hanging with Rastas in the East Village, and soaring to unimaginable popularity with her cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2U”.

Intimate, replete with candid anecdotes and told in a singular …

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reviewed Rememberings by Sinéad O'Connor

heartbreaking and incomplete

4 stars

I don't know how to rate this because it feels like rating her, and I can't do that. I listened to the audiobook initially because the library waitlist had it before other versions, but preferred hearing it in her own voice--she snorts and laughs at herself sometimes, which is delightfully intimate. But the years about her childhood will break your heart, and her talking about her future and her son Shane's future will also break your heart. Don't necessarily stay for the latter part of the story, when she (as she admits) doesn't have the material to draw from because she was in such a state of trauma. z"l

reviewed Rememberings by Sinéad O'Connor

rough

2 stars

Heartbreaking trauma. O'Connor comes through as frank and likeable, but it is clear (and clearly stated) that the first third of this was written in a good state of mind for reflecting on a distraught childhood, and the rest was thrown together after further trauma that's going to need future effort and space to sort out.