by Anderson CooperSo, we all know Anderson Cooper is maybe the cutest news guy on TV, even if we've never paid any attention to his show 360' on CNN. He also did the New Year's Eve special with Kathy Griffin the last 2 years. Very good stuff, that (I heard).
Really, though, I didn't know any of this when I chose this book from the library's "New" shelf several years ago. All I knew was the Anderson Cooper/CNN bit. I began the reading of this book quite biased, being a rather conservative Republican. I was expecting a lot of liberal yuck that I was going to have to wade through.
Not the case!
This is a remarkably touching, transparent human story of loss, struggle, deep emotion and resolution of some of life's greatest questions: Who am I? How do I survive this loss? How do I reconcile what I see and what I believe to be true?
Cooper grabs you with his stories of the terrors of life he has seen and experienced first-hand, those we usually only see from the distance of our television screens, and somehow molds them into an intimate portrait of his life. The intertwining of his personal story and the stories he has covered for CNN makes for an amazing read - one that I count as significant in my life. If two of the purposes of reading are entertainment and learning, this book fulfills both. I cried, I gobbled up the words, and when I put it down, I felt awash in the truths of life.
