Spare: En la sombra (Spanish Edition)
Fue una de las imágenes más desgarradoras del siglo XX: Dos niños, dos príncipes, caminando detrás del féretro de su madre, mientras el mundo contemplaba la escena con pesar... y horror. A la vez que se daba sepultura a Diana, princesa de Gales, miles de millones de personas se preguntaban qué debían pensar y sentir esos príncipes y qué rumbo tomarían sus vidas. En el caso de Harry, esta es, por fin, esa historia. Con su franqueza directa y sin concesiones, SPARE: En la sombra es una publicación que marcará un hito. Está llena de lucidez, revelaciones, introspección y sabiduría sobre el eterno poder del amor, sabiduría adquirida a un alto coste. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling--and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.
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3.75 out of 5. Rounding up to 4.
I’m not one to dive into memoirs but when I caught wind of Harry writing one, I was definitely intrigued. Hearing and reading things from his perspective, however reliable the general public might deem it to be, was incredibly eye opening to me. (Aka an American who has is both morbidly fascinated by the history of the British monarchy and hypercritical of it.)
Hearing first hand accounts of how brutal the British media was and how the unfair treatment affected both Harry and Meghan is upsetting. I feel foe both of them. The treatment was disgusting to me, and the complicity by the ones closest to them was just as abhorrent.
What I loved about reading this was how much he talked about his mom and how open he was about his own lifelong grieving and healing process. Diana is someone I admire greatly (people’s Princess and all that) and I can’t imagine losing my mom so young and in such a tragic way. Quiet honestly, I think his mom is smiling down on him and is full of pride. Reading his firsthand accounts of his budding relationship with Meghan is something that Id want to read another 5 books about!
Needless to say, I’m even more pro-Harry-and-Meg after reading this.
I’m not one to dive into memoirs but when I caught wind of Harry writing one, I was definitely intrigued. Hearing and reading things from his perspective, however reliable the general public might deem it to be, was incredibly eye opening to me. (Aka an American who has is both morbidly fascinated by the history of the British monarchy and hypercritical of it.)
Hearing first hand accounts of how brutal the British media was and how the unfair treatment affected both Harry and Meghan is upsetting. I feel foe both of them. The treatment was disgusting to me, and the complicity by the ones closest to them was just as abhorrent.
What I loved about reading this was how much he talked about his mom and how open he was about his own lifelong grieving and healing process. Diana is someone I admire greatly (people’s Princess and all that) and I can’t imagine losing my mom so young and in such a tragic way. Quiet honestly, I think his mom is smiling down on him and is full of pride. Reading his firsthand accounts of his budding relationship with Meghan is something that Id want to read another 5 books about!
Needless to say, I’m even more pro-Harry-and-Meg after reading this.
I most enjoyed hearing the Prince's accent, pronunciation of words (ex. "pass-ta" and "priv-issy" for pasta and privacy), and learning some British slang (ex. "todger" - feeds the 12 yo in me :).
At the conclusion of reading, I felt some guilt, sadness, and great empathy. I felt as though I was hearing things I should not have heard, about people whom I should not have heard them. It left me conflicted for having ordered the book, as though I were creeping on people and should have put more consideration into reading on the front-end. Which leads to the empathy. My view is that the Prince is and has been in a transformative space, and I wish he'd have given himself more time to process and sort thru all that he's experienced before putting himself out into the world so openly, and in ways that cannot be undone.
At the conclusion of reading, I felt some guilt, sadness, and great empathy. I felt as though I was hearing things I should not have heard, about people whom I should not have heard them. It left me conflicted for having ordered the book, as though I were creeping on people and should have put more consideration into reading on the front-end. Which leads to the empathy. My view is that the Prince is and has been in a transformative space, and I wish he'd have given himself more time to process and sort thru all that he's experienced before putting himself out into the world so openly, and in ways that cannot be undone.
Glad I had not bought the book…. I wish I could share here the review written by Margaret M - Hiatus. She has written an excellent review that eloquently covered all the issues I had with this book. This book was a painful read, I still can’t believe I was able to finish it, but I wanted to see all he had to say. Margaret expressed the issues with the book so much better that I could ever do. All I could think of from the first or second page was “how much jealousy towards his brother…”. I am still sorry for everything he has gone through with the paparazzi, but I just don’t understand his current behavior.
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