Solo A Memoir of Hope (Audible Audio Edition) Hope Solo Christina Delaine HarperAudio Books
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"My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise."
Hope Solo is the face of the modern female athlete. She is fearless, outspoken, and the best in the world at what she does protecting the goal of the U.S. women's soccer team. Her outsized talent has led her to the pinnacle of her sport - the Olympics and the World Cup - and made her into an international celebrity who is just as likely to appear on ABC's Dancing with the Stars as she is on the covers of Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine, and Vogue. But her journey - which began in Richland, Washington, where she was raised by her strong-willed mother on the scorched earth of defunct nuclear testing sites - is similarly haunted by the fallout of her family history. Her father, a philanderer and con man, was convicted of embezzlement when Solo was an infant. She lost touch with him as he drifted out of prison and into homelessness. By the time they reunited, years later, in the parking lot of a grocery store, she was an All-American goalkeeper at the University of Washington and already a budding prospect for the U.S. national team. He was living in the woods.
Despite harboring serious doubts even about the provenance of her father's last name (and her own), Solo embraces him as fiercely as she pursues her dreams of being a world-class soccer player. When those dreams are threatened by her standing within the national team, as when she was famously benched in the semifinals of the 2007 World Cup after four shutouts and spoke her piece publicly, we see a woman of uncompromising independence and hard-won perseverance navigate the petty backlash against her. For the first time, she tells her version of that controversial episode, and offers with it a full understanding of her hard-scrabble life.
Moving, sometimes shocking, Solo is a portrait of an athlete finding redemption. This is the Hope Solo whom few have ever glimpsed.
Solo A Memoir of Hope (Audible Audio Edition) Hope Solo Christina Delaine HarperAudio Books
If you didn't buy this book because you wanted Gossip! and Lots Of It! you'll come away very disappointed. Because Nelson Mandela she ain't. Fortunately for the rest of us, this book has plenty of gossip, drama and more. Wanna know what *really* (and by "really," I mean "according to Solo") went down in 2007? Than this is the book for you. But the rest of it isn't entirely a waste either. There's something absurdly compelling about this woman who feels very much at odds with society, has a vaguely confrontational, almost violent mindset about nearly everything, lives in a tiny cabin in the woods, and, oh yeah, is the best goalkeeper in the whole world. She's a real-life anti-hero, folks!There's also the usual ghostwritten nonsense, of course, with drama injected, and I'm not sure how I feel about it being written when it was (it just sort-of... ends - sequel bait!). But as crazypants celebrity autobiographies go, this is one of the better ones.
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Solo A Memoir of Hope (Audible Audio Edition) Hope Solo Christina Delaine HarperAudio Books Reviews
I enjoyed this book as I'm a soccer fan. She doesn't cover up the negative aspects of her life and career (and there's been more drama since this was published). I felt I really knew her as a person by the time I finished it. Pretty good if you like sports books. I look forward to following her continuing role in soccer.
Haven't finished, but so far I really enjoy. Hope had a tough life with some great people in her life. A little gritty but poignant as is her playing. Big fan of her have three daughters who played soccer heavily into college. Goes to show you you can do what you want with your life despite the odds. Always a sucker for a story of "hope."
Without question Hope had some adversity to deal with! The media is good at simplifying issues or getting them wrong to make villains out of some stars and heros out of others. Humans are usually more complex than that. It was really nice to hear Hope's perspective of her experiences. It is an easy read and really shows the strength behind the world's greatest goalie.
Enjoyed reading about the life story, struggles, triumphs, discipline, support, non-support of a soccer star!
I love soccer, and Hope Solo is not the kind of woman to hold her tongue so I knew what I'd be getting would be raw and probably a bit controversal, but full of drama and interesting stories. I was definitely not wrong about that, there were a lot of them, some making me like her and some not so much. I love that regardless of how people feel she's not afraid to be herself, although I'm not going to lie there were moments that her blatent honest had whiny undertones
This was a good book about a small town girl who made it big with her athletic abilities. She goes in depth about her trials and tribulations during her time in the US National Team. She talks about the heartaches and the issues she was face with. She did not shy away from discussing the harder parts of her life, and for that I respect her. She is a strong woman who will not sugarcoat anything. She will tell it like it is. If you looking to read about a drive, passionate, strong willed woman, this is a good book for you.
Given her success on the US National Women's Team and her fascinating background, I had high hopes for this book. Unfortunately, what I got was her lashing out at her critics and everyone she felt held her back. Very disappointing.
If you didn't buy this book because you wanted Gossip! and Lots Of It! you'll come away very disappointed. Because Nelson Mandela she ain't. Fortunately for the rest of us, this book has plenty of gossip, drama and more. Wanna know what *really* (and by "really," I mean "according to Solo") went down in 2007? Than this is the book for you. But the rest of it isn't entirely a waste either. There's something absurdly compelling about this woman who feels very much at odds with society, has a vaguely confrontational, almost violent mindset about nearly everything, lives in a tiny cabin in the woods, and, oh yeah, is the best goalkeeper in the whole world. She's a real-life anti-hero, folks!
There's also the usual ghostwritten nonsense, of course, with drama injected, and I'm not sure how I feel about it being written when it was (it just sort-of... ends - sequel bait!). But as crazypants celebrity autobiographies go, this is one of the better ones.
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