Status Updates From Run Towards the Danger: Con...

4.5

DNF

“A burst of America” 😂 lol

I feel this chapter so damn much.

Damn, Sarah

Rereading - on audio this time! I really love this book and have thought about it often since first reading it a few years ago.

I'm always appalled by what Sarah Polley had to go through on the set of Avonlea.
The way the adults spoke in her name without ever talking to her or her father (not that it would have changed anything) or her legal guardian baffles me.
I love the simplistic way in which she says how much her dreams have been a reflection of her past and a part of building her future in "Dissolving the boundaries".

This books is so dang depressing (but I’m loving the scoliosis rep)

« Les cas graves exigeaient une opération. On étirait l’épine dorsale et on fusionnait les vertèbres au moyen d’un greffon osseux prélevé sur la hanche, puis on installait une tige de métal de chaque côté pour empêcher la
Colonne de Niger en attendant que la greffe prenne. »

Oooooph, this is so good. I’ve teared up several times 🥹

Although I have heard Sarah Polley in multiple interviews about her work ethics when it comes to working with children on a set I am appalled at what happened to her when she was so young. I do hope that kids are treated better nowadays (sleeping between 8-9 hours a night while working well over 12 hours on other days definitely isn't normal for a child. I am glad that things seem to be changing for the best...

So far, this is the story that appeals to me the least: I'm not a mother, nor do I think I want to become one. So, as a nurse, I did enjoy the way she was treated by the nursing team (care and competencies) and am thrilled to know there are still Dr Bernsteins around. There aren't enough Dr Bernsteins nor enough Cindys nowadays...

Sarah Polley never ceases to amaze me. In "The woman who stayed silent" one can only wonder and marvel at her courage: why she didn't come through when the #MeToo against Ghomeshi was ongoing in Canada (sadly, history proved her right) and how and why she decided to do it now and in that way. I will pick up Elaine Craig's work. Sarah really is running towards the danger. Such a hard read. Such an enlightening one.

I first read this in the spring of 2022 and it blew my mind and broke me open. You know it’s a great book when it does the same a second time.

Just finished the ‘mad genius’ chapter- so interested can’t wait to watch her films

Great! Very insightful.

Ok, now I want to kick somebody in the pants. You know who.

Great expression of personal experience that doesn't - so far anyway - get either prurient or "dishy". Gotta say, though, that my "paternal" side finds it difficult to see a kid suffering like this. I stupidly feel like I should be "doing" something.

I have to take breaks because I'm so overwhelmed with emotion at the essay Run Towards The Danger. Polley's brain injury, how people react to it, and the successful treatment mimic my >3 year experience of a chronic headache so closely, it's jarring.

“Most of the lawyers I have spoken with insist that nothing should change in the way that sexual assault cases are tried, that defence lawyers generally behave very well in courtrooms and in accordance with Canada’s very progressive rape shield laws, but that they would, once again, never advise a woman they loved to come forward in a sexual assault case.”

I keep rereading this part over and over.

Cried at the dedication already. Good start 😄

99% sure that sarah polley and I would get on marvellously

Literally unputdownable, from the first page.

Oh my gosh the chapter “High Risk”…. Wow.

I’m barely into this book and already know it’s gonna f me up emotionally. I’ve never once annotated a book but felt compelled to with this memoir. She states at one point that she hadn’t experienced true feminine love until a certain point in her life which made me realize I haven’t had feminine love or nurturing since I was 11yrs old. BRB while I take a break n bawl my eyes out.

Experience with premature baby. V moving

I’m getting way more out of this book than I could have possibly thought

Resonates. So well observed and described.

Whoa.

Fascinating to discover that Sarah Polley was originally writing the screenplay for Little Women that Greta Gerwig later rewrote and directed.