Live Wire

APPLE BOOKS REVIEW

Kelly Ripa has built a career on being likable, and hearing her read these candid personal essays makes the actress and TV host even more endearing. Ripa’s hilariously blunt “not-memoir,” as she calls it, is full of memorable moments from her childhood in the suburbs of New Jersey through her success on the daytime soap All My Children and her ascent to stardom as a morning show host. Funny, open, and wonderfully self-aware, Ripa’s anecdotes are sincere—and incredibly entertaining. Whether she’s talking about her awkward first meeting with her now-husband or having her pregnancy announced on camera by a psychic before she’d even told her boss, her hilarious personality shines through her energetic narration. Like the bubbly but razor-sharp Ripa herself, Live Wire is full of surprises.