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Open Book
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4.6 • 36 Ratings
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- £14.99
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- £14.99
Publisher Description
The #1 New York Times Bestseller
Includes six new songs by Jessica Simpson, available exclusively in the Open Book audiobook.
Performed by the author featuring her music throughout.
Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. Guided by the journals she's kept since age fifteen, and brimming with her unique humor and down-to-earth humanity, Open Book is as inspiring as it is entertaining.
This was supposed to be a very different book. Five years ago, Jessica Simpson was approached to write a motivational guide to living your best life. She walked away from the offer, and nobody understood why. The truth is that she didn’t want to lie.
Jessica couldn’t be authentic with her readers if she wasn’t fully honest with herself first.
Now America’s Sweetheart, preacher’s daughter, pop phenomenon, reality tv pioneer, and the billion-dollar fashion mogul invites readers on a remarkable journey, examining a life that blessed her with the compassion to help others, but also burdened her with an almost crippling need to please. Open Book is Jessica Simpson using her voice, heart, soul, and humor to share things she’s never shared before.
First celebrated for her voice, she became one of the most talked-about women in the world, whether for music and fashion, her relationship struggles, or as a walking blonde joke. But now, instead of being talked about, Jessica is doing the talking. Her book shares the wisdom and inspirations she’s learned and shows the real woman behind all the pop-culture cliché’s — “chicken or fish,” “Daisy Duke,” ""football jinx,"" “mom jeans,” “sexual napalm…” and more. Open Book is an opportunity to laugh and cry with a close friend, one that will inspire you to live your best, most authentic life, now that she is finally living hers.
Includes the songs “Heartbeat,” “Practice What You Preach,” “Sweet Temptation,” “Your Fool”(featuring Willie Nelson), “Party of One,” and “Free Will” by Jessica Simpson.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
As she readily admits in the early chapters of her startlingly honest memoir, Jessica Simpson boosted her fame by making herself the sexy butt of the joke. But even though she deliberately cultivated her image as the early 2000s’ hottest “dumb blonde,” the pop singer’s book—which was written without a ghostwriter—proves that she’s anything but stupid. Simpson drew on decades of her own journals to give an unfiltered account of a childhood spent trying to please adults, both at home and in the entertainment industry, and an adulthood defined by codependent relationships, addiction, and depression. At turns heartbreaking and hilarious, Open Book paints a compelling portrait of the celebrity’s complicated inner life (which she kept secret for a long, long time) and of how she got through the darkest times with the help of her family, friends, and faith. We were riveted by Simpson’s reading—and her courage in shattering the fairy-tale portrayal of celebrity we’re so often presented. Best of all, her audiobook includes six new songs: some of the catchiest, most heartfelt music she’s ever made.
Customer Reviews
Jessica Simpson
Such an easy read, literally couldn’t put it down. Every chapter got even more juicy and intense. Very honest and from the heart, have read it 3 times. Love her even more after reading this!
Wow
Firstly I love the fact she read this book to her fans herself you could hear the true emotion in her voice! Brilliant book I am a massive fan of Jessica she truly is an inspiration
A must for ANYONE!
You do not need to be a Jessica Simpson fan to relate and love this book. I happen to be a Jessica Simpson fan, so I bought the book the first day it came out in UK. TBH, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I finished it within a few hours, which says a lot considering I have ADD! I tend to get sidetracked, but not with this book! 🤣
I have just purchased the audiobook, as Jessica is the narrator. She does such an amazing job! You can hear all of her emotions. It’s like she is with you, sharing these memories. Most importantly, I had some good laughs reading and listening, especially with everything going on in the world at the moment.
Obviously, I highly recommend this book! 😊