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Feb 08, 2023
What's it like being the unwanted daughter of one of the world's most iconic tech leaders? Being the daughter of the late Steve Jobs means having lived in his long shadow and having experienced his cruel whims. He doesn't come across in…
Jul 30, 2022GLAC_Shannon rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
What impressed me most about this book was the author's ability to remember in such exquisite detail so many interactions she had with her emotionally reluctant father, Steve Jobs.
Jun 30, 2022JCLJenV rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Steve Jobs' daughter shares her personal experience of having him as her father.
Nov 09, 2021pacl_teens rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
"I read Small Fry, a 2018 memoir written by Lisa Brennan-Jobs. Small Fry fits in the categories of Pop Culture and Community. Lisa Brennan-Jobs is the eldest daughter of Silicon Valley icon Steve Jobs and his high-school sweetheart,…
Jul 14, 2021NANCY ELIZABETH WHITLATCH rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is Lisa Brennan-Jobs story of her life as the daughter of Steve Jobs and Chrisann Brennan. Yes, Steve Jobs comes off as a real jerk, as well as her mother. I think he has a reputation of being that way. By Lisa's descriptions, Jobs…
Jun 17, 2020moraggunn rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is a beautifully-written memoir, and Brennan-Jobs’ powers of description and awareness of the natural world brought northern California right into my head and mouth and ears. The obvious distinguishing feature of this memoir is the…
Apr 20, 2020
A month before beginning this book I saw the 2015 movie "Steve Jobs," the one with Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet. (An excellent movie, by the way...) The relationship that Lisa has with her famous father is friendlier as told by…
Feb 02, 2020phyllis94941 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I thought this was a fascinating look at the real Steve Jobs as seen through the life and experiences of his daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs. This would be a good read even if her father was not one of the most famous people of our time,…
Oct 23, 2019Moon2125 rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
This memoir is a lot of random memories, some of them interesting, some of them not. The writing is good, but this memoir wouldn't have gotten as much attention if it weren't written by Steve Jobs' daughter.
Jul 29, 2019GracieLucy rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Sad. He seemed to be needy. She seemed to be needy, but handled it better. She had a total jerk for a father.
Jul 10, 2019JeanieG rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I happened to pick this up when I wasn't even looking for something to read. I have not seen the Steve Jobs movie or read the biography but of course I know a little about his life and had heard something about the daughter he had denied…
Jun 29, 2019jya3 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Usually I don't read anything related to Mr. Jobs but this memoir was interesting. You can be creative and earn a ton of cash and be clueless about your impact on your own kid. The denial aspect of this story is bewildering. I mean why…
Jun 04, 2019pattyskypants rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This adds to the Jobs Lore but it is interesting to read about her responses to being rejected by her biological father. I wish that her mother would also write about her experience. All in all, it is a disturbing tale but not…
May 14, 2019Elybrarian rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I generally avoid celebrity memoirs, but Lisa Brennan-Jobs is an excellent and honest storyteller. I found this book through NPR, and I am grateful to have given it a try. Brennan-Jobs's thoughts and memories all tie together into perfect…
Apr 24, 2019Indoorcamping rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
It's been a week since I finished this and I can't get it out of my head. Honestly, I didn't want to read it in the first place, as who cares about Steve Jobs' daughter? He was SUCH a jerk. Anyone who lived during the time when Steve…
Mar 12, 2019Stresstested rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Audiobook review: Even listening to it, I stopped between a third and halfway and returned it. Just boring.
Mar 12, 2019
Not knowing much about Steve Jobs prior to reading this book, I found the story fascinating. Brennan-Jobs is great writer and in turn this was an easy book to read. It is a very factual memoir that invoked a range of emotions in me about…
Feb 05, 2019blcwrites rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
This is a complicated memoir - Steve Jobs would have qualified for a CPS intervention as a parent. His daughter paid the price along with her mother. As a reader, like the author, I was always on the outside looking in through those…
Feb 03, 2019houman rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Eliminate the last 4 letters of the author's name and this book would have never gotten published. The author's life is not interesting enough nor does she have any great insights to warrant a memoir at the age of 40. Over half the book…
Jan 23, 2019IvyDigest rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
From the first line of her book, it was like a child tugging at her father's sleeve pleading "Look at me!" This heart-wrenching memoir frankly shares how it's like to be the daughter of a titan. Steve Jobs changed the world but left Lisa's…
Jan 09, 2019
Enjoyed the bravery of Lisa Brennan-Jobs to write about her early life; it was interesting to learn that she was illegitimate and the State of California stepped up to help her and her mother, getting her father to offer some sort of…
Jan 02, 2019DPLpaigeb rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A memoir filled with sadness, honesty and engaging stories.
Dec 26, 2018PalyAlum rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I live in Palo Alto and met Steve Jobs at his house at trick-or-treating in the early 2000s and he was really nice to my toddler, chatting with him, no one else around. He personally gave out treats every year so it must have been…
Dec 14, 2018MikeEe rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Lisa Brennan-Jobs’ memoir shows how she lived in the two diametrically opposite worlds of her parents - her mother’s of an always broke, creative, true to herself, free spirit, and her father’s of a selfish, cold, condescending,…
Nov 19, 2018pmaison rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5 STARS -- Take this book as a small story, bravely observed and written in deceptively clear prose. (Deceptively because I wish like heck that I could write with such admirable clarity -- especially when trying to recount emotionally…