Memoir Armoire

McMillan, now 45, is a TV writer in Los Angeles. [Her credits include] “United States of Tara” , the fourth season of “Mad Men” and her current job on Jerry Bruckheimer’s upcoming NBC series, “Chase.” What makes this roster even more impressive is that she didn’t start what she calls her “dream job” until just a few years ago, when she scored her first show, NBC’s now-canceled “Journeyman.” McMillan recalls one day while working on the drama about a time-traveling reporter, the show’s writers went around the table and talked about what their dads did for a living. “Out of the nine writers, six of them had dads who were doctors,” says McMillan on the phone from her home in Los Angeles. “And I said, ‘My dad’s in federal prison.’ That’s why it took me 20 years to get here. I ran a marathon before I got to that table.” That marathon is documented in her new Advertisement Quantcast memoir, “I Love You and I’m Leaving You Anyway”.

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A guest review from my Dad. (Yep, that’s how he prefers to be credited.) Thanks, Dad!

This autobiography of a man’s life filled me with admiration for him and made me feel too embarrassed to complain about anything again. Ever. It tells the story of his “fortunate” life which was a constant battle against adversity from starting work at eight years old, through childhood cruelty, the horrors of the First World War and beyond. Mostly set in Western Australia where I now live, the contrast between the times in which he lived and the present could not be greater. And yet most haven’t learned anything at all. Written in a humble and understated style it will remain with me as one of the most poignant books I have read. One of the few that I want to give everyone I know a copy.

Sadly, it’s out of print, but Amazon has second-hand copies (and it’s probably not the only one).

Want to write a guest review of your own? Email me! (100-200 words is ideal, and it must be a memoir).