Strong Female Character

The Sunday Times Bestseller

Knyga minkštais viršeliais, 288 psl.

English kalba

Publikuota 2024, Octopus Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-1-914240-47-8
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A summary of my book:

  1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it.

  2. My terrible Catholic childhood: I hate my parents etc.

  3. My friendship with an elderly man who runs the corner shop and is definitely not trying to groom me.

  4. Homelessness.

  5. Stripping.

  6. More stripping but with more nervous breakdowns.

  7. I hate everyone at uni and live with a psycho etc.

  8. REDACTED as too spicy.

  9. After everyone tells me I don't look autistic, I try to cure my autism and get addicted to Xanax.

  10. REDACTED as too embarrassing.

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apžvelgė autoriaus Fern Brady knygą Strong Female Character

processing

To me this feels like a book written by someone who is processing her own life and fairly late diagnosis with autism and sharing with us in real time. It's interesting to process it with her, although I might have enjoyed reading a more reflective work that comes later more. Maybe that will come later! There's also a lot of overlap in content with her standup, which makes sense—we have but one life to draw from.

Some specifics about why it didn't fully land for me: - Memoirs where people give a lot of detail to childhood events that are hard to believe anyone remembering in such detail always rub me the wrong way. - It felt like each story in the book was forced to tie into to her late autism diagnosis from a narrative standpoint, and I wish there was more space to just learn about her and …

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Temos

  • Women comedians
  • Comedians, biography
  • Autism
  • Women, biography
  • Personal memoirs