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Bezig met laden... Making It (editie 2021)door Jay Blades (Auteur), Ian Gittins (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkMaking It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life door Jay Blades
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Making It is an inspirational memoir about beating the odds and turning things around even when it all seems hopeless. In this book, Jay Blades shares the details of his life, from his childhood growing up sheltered and innocent on a council estate in Hackney, to his adolescence when he was introduced to violent racism at secondary school, to being brutalized by police as a teen, to finally becoming a beloved star of the hit primetime show The Repair Shop. Jay reflects on strength, weakness and what it means to be a man. He questions the boundaries society places on male vulnerability and how letting himself be nurtured helped him flourish into the person he is today. An expert at giving a second life to cherished items, Jay's positivity, pragmatism and kindness shine through these pages and show that with care and love, anything can be mended. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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He and I are the same age so some cultural touchstones are the same but we had such different lives.
He's dyslexic and he didn't get any help in school, actually his schooling seemed designed to create an angry youth. He was bullied and beaten up for his race and his background; he's a man from a single parent background and while she did what she could there's only so much she could at the time.He came out with his fists up and no academic qualifications, and honestly his teachers seemed to be phoning it in. Various coincidences put him in places to learn to to interact with others and how to be a better person step by step, often from nothing at all. He admits to his own parenting and relationship issues but he keeps trying to be better and to uplift others, particularly kids that look like they're going to be where he was as an angry young man.
He didn't find out that he was dyslexic until he was in his 30s while studying Criminology and Philosophy and he's made friends along the way that help him be him and one of the people he's made friends with has been himself. He admits that he now has friends who can see when he's struggling and will help him realise it and find the help he needs.
I found the read interesting, Jay has found family in a lot of places and he seems to be trying to ensure that people around him find theirs. He also isn't very self-pitying and maybe a little judgemental to himself but overall he comes across as a good person, astounded that he's an MBE and happy with himself. ( )