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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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Title	:	All That Is Bitter and Sweet: A Memoir
Author	:	Ashley Judd
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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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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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ISBN:	034552361X (ISBN13: 9780345523617)
Edition Language:	English

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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.

This book is about 1/3 Ashley Judd's personal memoir and about 2/3rds a non-fiction book about third world countries and their struggles with population control, sexual and physical abuse of women, and sexually-related commerce and its dangers. So if you're looking for a juicy, gossipy memoir, THIS IS NOT IT. However, if you are genuinely interested in Judd's work around the world, there is a LOT of information about what she experiences and what various NGOs do, with heavy end-notes directing

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



This exquisite mixture of a deeply personal journey and a world-sized caring for the needs of women and children living in poverty, often drowning in disease, slavery and genocide. This book is a must read. While far too many actors waste their celebrity and their treasure, Ashley Judd has flung her gifts out to the world like a raft in an unspeakable storm.

Ashley Judds memoir is actually two books in one; a memoir of her highly dysfunctional childhood growing up as a Judd (but not at all part of her mother and sisters singer duo), and walking away from her TV and acting career to travel the world as an ambassador for PSI and NGO. Personally, I was much more interested in the latter than the former.I read a couple of reviews that say this book has a lot of clichés and is (over) emotional however, Judd longs to bring a voice to the voiceless and she

Intellectualized and skim-worthy.