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I could not put this book down once I started reading.
Very interesting to hear her viewpoint & hear more about her
life experiences.

If you like Rosie, you'll love the book. Autobiographical account of losing her mother as a child, how it has affected her as an adult, and stories about her family and career. I'm not a big Rosie fan, but her story is interesting none the less and she is a walking endorsement for adoption.

I LOVED this book - very intimate portrayal of a young girl in trouble and how Rosie O'Donnell helps her - you learn a lot about Rosie as well! Written in informal language and filled with Rosie's energetic style, I give this book 5 stars!

This is a heartbreaking true story of Rosie's enduring heart to help children in finding loving homes. Anyone interested in a touching and suprising human interest story this book is for you.

This book was kind of "different" I thought it would be more of an autobiography by Rosie.
Rosie gets involved online with a 14 year old who wants to give Rosie her baby. But there is a twist.
I dont think I would read it again.

I've been on a celebrity autobiographical kick lately, and this was a disappointment to me. Unless you're interested in her email correspondence with a severely disturbed woman, there isn't much of interest in this book. I think she is a very good person who has overcome much in her life, but this was a very disjointed and ultimately uncompelling book. On the other hand, now that Rosie's back on TV (on The View), this might be some interesting insight into her personal relationships.

It was great to read the personal side of someone I've admired for a while.

I was expecting the story of Rosie, but quite different. A complete page turner.

In my opinion tis book was just "ok". It's not really all that believable and honestly, it's a little self serving for Rosie, she - of course - comes out looking like the poor, deceived hero.

This book was surprisingly good. I bought it in a bargin bin new and figured that it was something to read. It's a super quick read and is very unexpected. Also a true story so that makes it shocking.

The whole world changed with just one phone call...I met Stacie for the first time in May. Her voice was meek and flat on the phone. She wasn't crying but I heard it, the unmistakable sound of desperation. That was the first call, the single call that would change my life, and hers too, probably forever.

I work for a non-profit adoption agency in New Jersey. I fund their operation, provide outreach services, and they do the work. Finding families for kids who need them is beyond fulfilling, it is addictive. I like to help. I need to help. I help a lot, sometimes too much.

This is a true story about a girl named Stacie who called the adoption agency with a terrible problem. A lot of it won't make sense, at least logically. But sometimes sense runs deeper than logic. Nothing happens by chance. The events that follow, some dark and painful, changed me absolutely

This is a hardcover book in excellent condition!

This book was a bit odd but very cool!

Hmmmm...fiction or not? Told straightforwardly, ending is something of a surprise.

I'm not a big fan of Rosie O'Donnell, but I wanted to read her book just to get an inside of who she is and what she stands for. The book was an easy but interesting read. The book is hardcover and in excellent condition (including the dust jacket). It's time for the book to move on and be enjoyed by someone else.

Summary:

One day, TV talk show host O'Donnell (Kids Are Punny), aka Rosie, impulsively left a phone message for a pregnant, 14-year-old girl, whose tragic story of rape she had learned about at the New Jersey adoption agency she funds. Within days, the girl, Stacie, called back. Rosie introduced herself and offered to help the girl in any way she could. "And as I said those words, it was like a shell breaking open or a bird coming out," writes O'Donnell. "I said hello and a crack came, and we all fell in, straight into looking-glass land." What follows is an enormously powerful story about the mystery of identity, about how forces strong enough to shatter one person can make another shine like a diamond. Rosie chronicles her increasingly obsessive phone and e-mail relationship with a poor, broken kid who comes to show her that beneath her gifts of humor, fame, money and even love, she is still the child who lost her mother and is calling out to her. But what makes this brief book extraordinary by any standard is that it captures the way a core self, a true I, can appear in the midst of the most broken life. In the kind of lean, clean, witty prose that comes only with complete honesty, Rosie imparts some unexpected truths. Readers will come away persuaded that the road of obsessiveness can sometimes lead to the palace of wisdom, that faith and grace are real. Those who declare this merely a sexual "coming-out" story (there are passing references to dating a woman and to Rosie's partner, Kelli) need a heart and brain transplant. Here, Rosie offers us an unsentimental and utterly real tale about the power of love. (One-day laydown, Apr. 16)
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