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Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby

March 27, 2022 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

I feel like this is going to be a tough one for me to review, because my relationship with the content that Hannah Gadsby creates is so personal to me and has been frankly crucial to how I am coming to understand myself that it’s a bit difficult to try to take that out of the equation and look at Ten Steps to Nanette on its own. I’ve likely watched Nanette half a dozen times in the past couple of years (and once again in […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, Anxiety, ARC, ASD, autism, comedy, debut, Depression, faintingviolet, Hannah Gadsby, NetGalley, neurodivergent, Ten Steps to Nanette, trauma

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:30 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, Anxiety, ARC, ASD, autism, comedy, debut, Depression, faintingviolet, Hannah Gadsby, NetGalley, neurodivergent, Ten Steps to Nanette, trauma ·
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Rep Square: The Good Sister

The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth

October 12, 2021 by msvreadsbooks Leave a Comment

I’m using this as my REP bingo square.  The Good Sister is told from the perspective of two Australian sisters (and twins), Rose and Fern. Rose is an accomplished interior designer married to a wonderful man and all she wants is to be a mother. Through her journal entries, however, we hear about her fraught relationship with her own mother’s narcissistic ways.  And Fern, while not explicitly identified as such, seems to have Autism Spectrum Disorder given her sensory processing issues, social discomfort, and love […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: ASD, autism representation, autism spectrum, cbr13bingo, mystery, REP Square Bingo, sally hepworth

msvreadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:45 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: ASD, autism representation, autism spectrum, cbr13bingo, mystery, REP Square Bingo, sally hepworth ·
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