I'm Glad My Mom Died

How do you numerically rate a memoir? How do you review it with your actual words? Especially one with as much buzz as this one has right now? I keep hearing about it from everywhere, from random podcast segments recommended on Youtube, to Reddit going absolutely nuts.
Don't get me wrong, it was a good read, in the sense that it was written VERY well (I would love to see Jennette McCurdy write more, maybe try fiction or something, I think she would kill it). It was easy to get into, it had a great flow. I binged it.

Without ever having Nickelodeon in my house as a kid, all I know about iCarly is that the girls who used to bully me in grade 4, the “cool”, rich, popular ones liked it. I discovered my love for fantasy at that-ish age, so it's unlikely I would have been into it anyway. But yeah, I went in without the fear of it tainting some amazing, formative childhood memory I ever had. She seems nice is all.

I just don't think I am used to this kind of a non-fiction, one where a person just goes through their personal experiences without a definitive point or end or goal for you to understand. Like, of course she obviously wanted us all to see the specific, not positive experiences she had with something a lot of people assume is glamorous. But it wasn't trying to be educational on a topic.
So because of that, I didn't feel a sense of big intellectual catharsis. Which might sound awful and insensitive, which is not at all my goal. I am not trying to assign a value to this person or her experiences or how she is dealing with them. So there is that.

In a sense, I think the great writing made me just a little emotionally distant from it. Again, weird, but it almost made it feel like a novel at some point. It's not because I am doubtful about any part of her story, I have no reason to be. It's just from the technical standpoint, I guess.
Funny enough, seeing her speak on Youtube, I can totally buy her having written this. There is nothing wrong with using professional help when writing a book as someone who is new to writing and not primarily an author. But in her case, it still has her. Her speech patterns, the ways she uses to express herself. That's absolutely huge in my opinion.

There were some moments where her thoughts really resonated with me, not because our experiences are the same or even similar, but our conclusions were. Which was interesting.
I also wonder how she is doing now. If she gained some more perspective on things. In a way, I also want her to be allowed to do her thing in peace, though. She deserves that, finally having the privacy to concentrate on herself.