Then Again

Diane Keaton

Nov 2011 · Sold by Random House

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Mom loved adages, quotes, slogans. There were always little reminders pasted on the kitchen wall. For example, the word THINK. I found THINK thumbtacked on a bulletin board in her darkroom. I saw it Scotch-taped on a pencil box she’d collaged. I even found a pamphlet titled THINK on her bedside table. Mom liked to THINK.
 
So begins Diane Keaton’s unforgettable memoir about her mother and herself. In it you will meet the woman known to tens of millions as Annie Hall, but you will also meet, and fall in love with, her mother, the loving, complicated, always-thinking Dorothy Hall. To write about herself, Diane realized she had to write about her mother, too, and how their bond came to define both their lives. In a remarkable act of creation, Diane not only reveals herself to us, she also lets us meet in intimate detail her mother. Over the course of her life, Dorothy kept eighty-five journals—literally thousands of pages—in which she wrote about her marriage, her children, and, most probingly, herself. Dorothy also recorded memorable stories about Diane’s grandparents. Diane has sorted through these pages to paint an unflinching portrait of her mother—a woman restless with intellectual and creative energy, struggling to find an outlet for her talents—as well as her entire family, recounting a story that spans four generations and nearly a hundred years.
 
More than the autobiography of a legendary actress, Then Again is a book about a very American family with very American dreams. Diane will remind you of yourself, and her bonds with her family will remind you of your own relationships with those you love the most.
 
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Ratings and reviews

I love this book. I am so sad that i finished it cause i never want to stop reading . i totally want more. It was great to have an incite of her life and her mothers. I enjoyed the tone of the book as if she was in front of me telling me about her life and it made me reflect on the relationship i have with my mother . i enjoyed every journal entry and photograph . It was different than any auto biographic i have ever read. Thank you.

It lingered into to much detail, to slow. Lost my attention. I love Diane keaton, but this portrait of her life was not great.

I hated finishing this book. I lack much free time to read for pleasure and it was such a good read that I thoroughly was enraptured and moved by the heartwrenching and real events that chisel is into ourselves. Highly recommend this book to read.

About the author

Diane Keaton has starred in some of the most memorable movies of the past forty years, including the Godfather trilogy, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Reds, Baby Boom, The First Wives Club, and Something’s Gotta Give. Her many awards include the Golden Globe and the Academy Award. Keaton lives with her daughter and son in Los Angeles.