Anjelica Huston has lived the most incredible life I have ever encountered in either fiction or non-fiction, and a moment of your time spent reading anything else is wasted. Her memoirs are an absolute treasure trove of amazing life lessons. She clearly didn't intend it this way, but I've taken her memoir up as a book of advice for young women, and will strive to live more like Anjelica Huston in everything I do. This likely will mean more horseback-riding, more drinking, more general cavorting around the world, and more instances of being wildly successful at my every endeavor, partially to spite the haters (hence the title, "Watch Me," meaning - Don't think I can act, direct, etc? Watch me). I have never read juicier gossip and she is so incredibly candid about her life and most importantly her lovers. If you go the audiobook route, you'll get to enjoy her completely strange and beautiful pronunciations of ordinary words, probably the result of an Irish upbringing and a French education.

Anjelica Huston's life is better than yours. It just is. If this bothers you, then this isn't the memoir for you. She gets a ruby from her father when she catches the measles, because it matches her red spots; nearly half the book describes equestrian dramas, etc. The best part is that she is so utterly nonchalant about the whole thing, as if being John Huston's daughter is perfectly ordinary, because to her it was. She makes for a terrific narrator and I highly recommend the audio book version, with her lovely, lovely voice over. I'm really just reading this to get to the second volume, which details her life as a young actress in the 70s, but this has made for a really whimsical, enchanting detour.