Find Me
by Rosie O'Donnell
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Author: Rosie O'DonnellEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-04-01
ISBN: 0446690309
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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- ISBN13: 9780446690300
- Condition: New
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Book Review: Find Me Review by Molly D
Summary: 4 Stars
The book I read is called Find Me by Rosie O' Donnell. This book tells about Rosie's life as a child and her life when she was older. This book focused mainly on a character named Stacie. It talked a lot about finding yourself and trusting people. It makes you think about how by trusting someone you could be helping them and helping yourself. The book starts off talking about Rosie's childhood. In the book Rosie uses flashes back a lot. Rosie lived at home with her mom, dad and four brothers and sisters. When Rosie was young her mother got breast cancer. No one told Rosie what her mother had, Rosie never knew until her mother died. Rosie was a strong child and very smart. She wanted to know everything in life and she found everything out on her own. When Rosie's mother died it forced her to be independent. Rosie took everything her mother said and brought it to her life. She was a determined child with a big heart.
When Rosie got older she became an actress and comedian. After becoming a comedian she got her own show, The Rosie O' Donnell Show. Rosie also opened and owns an adoption center. Rosie meets a girl named Stacie through her adoption center. The impact of meeting Stacie was so great that Rosie's life was never the same. One day a woman named Barbra called Rosie's Adoption center and told her about her 14-year old daughter. Barbra's daughter, Stacie, was raped by a minister and she was now pregnant. Barbra wanted to talk to Rosie about having the baby adopted after it was born. For some reason Rosie felt a connection to Stacie and wanted to help in anyway she could. Stacie and Rosie began talking on the phone every once and a while. Then they began to talk all the time, at least 3 times a day. Rosie's friends were worried about Rosie being so obsessed with this young girl; they didn't think Rosie should trust someone she had never met. They thought Stacie and her family were going to scam Rosie for her money. Rosie trusted Stacie. One day Stacie got sick and was in the hospital. Rosie called everyday to check up on her. Soon Stacie was physically better but mentally worse. She was sent to the psych ward. Rosie sent gifts hoping they would help Stacie feel better. Once Stacie had improved she tells Rosie she hasn't felt the baby move. It ends up the baby had died but Stacie still had to deliver it. Rosie calls the social worker who was working with the adoptive parents for Stacie's baby. The social worker tells Rosie there is no baby. Rosie tells her she knows the baby died. The social worker explains to Rosie she looked up Barbra, Doug and Stacie and there are no such people. There was no 14-year old girl in the hospital that they said Stacie had been in. Stacie was just a hoax.
Once Rosie finds out there is no Stacie she wants to get to the bottom of things. She calls the local police in the town where Stacie said she lived. The police couldn't give Rosie too much information, but they told Rosie the house that was said to be Stacie's was owned by a Melissa Star. Rosie calls Melissa and Melissa has no clue who Rosie is. Melissa does give Rosie her therapist's number. After talking to Tina, the therapist, Rosie discovers that Melissa has Multiple Personality Disorder and Stacie, Barb and Doug are some of her Personalities. This doesn't stop Rosie from being attached to Stacie. She becomes friends with Melissa. Rosie buys Melissa a new computer and an internet connection so they can e-mail each other. As Rosie receives the e-mails she meets different personalities. She meets Nancy, who is the writer of the group. She also meets Kate who is very mean. Kate burns Melissa body and causes the most pain to the body. Rosie becomes more obsessed with reading her e-mail and other things in her real life become less important to her.
Rosie decides she wants to meet Melissa. So Rosie arranges for Melissa and Tina to come to her show and stay at a nearby hotel for the weekend. When Rosie meets Melissa, she realizes she is just a normal woman even though she has Multiple Personality Disorder. Melissa never changes personality during their visit but she does have lots of burns on her. When Melissa leaves Rosie says, "She took my obsession with her in her carry on bag." After Rosie meets Melissa her suspicions were gone and she was able to get back to her real life, with her real friends and family. Rosie never heard from Stacie again, but she keeps in touch with Melissa. Rosie always says "Nothing happens by chance."
This book had many strengths. One of its strengths are the characters. The way Rosie described the people in this book made you feel as though you knew them. She explained them well. The way she talks about the characters makes you almost as obsessed with them as she was. The plot of the book was very good. It keeps you very interested and you never know what is going to happen next. It is not a predictable book, which makes you want to keep reading to see what will come next.
This book also had some weaknesses. One thing I didn't like about this book was there was not much information on Melissa different personalities. I think it would have been more interesting to meet more personalities or have more detail of some of them. The ending of the book felt a little abrupt. The book was so good I think it should have gone on a little longer and given the reader a little more information.
I would recommend this book to anyone. It has mystery in it and makes you want to keep reading. It also has a lot of life lessons. The book really makes you think about life and yourself. Would you trust a stranger? Do you trust yourself? Most of all does everything happen by chance?
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