Not Really......
One of my favorite expressions is: " Just because you can, doesn't mean you should". So if someone suggested to you that you just rant out loud into a tape recorder and then transcribe the contents to the written page (probably for big money) no doubt you might do it too.
I havent read her previous works so i have nothing to compare it to.
I don’t really know how to explain this book. At first, a funny tale explaining her strange family, upbringing and convoluted family-tree. Then it becomes a comical look (?!) at the impact mental illness had on her life. Then around about the half-way point in the book it starts to spin even farther out of focus and become a catch-all for anything that appears to have popped into her head at the time.
She is a funny person, no doubt about that. And she uses her humour to deflect - or in most cases to cope with - her unusually sensitive perspective of her life.
At about 150 pages long this book is easy to read in an afternoon but I didn’t feel anything after completion; not redemption, not comic relief, not entertained. Maybe only sympathy?
4 months ago