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Turns out, she’s still a genius

Turns out, I'm fine by Judith Lucy

May 22, 2021 by kniki Leave a Comment

Last year, Judith Lucy was overwhelmed and dying (according to the name of her podcast) but in 2021 it turns out, she’s fine. Which I am supremely happy to hear, because she’s been one of my favourite comedians since the 90s, not long after she first hit Australia’s scene. This is Lucy’s memoir of a pretty shitty series of life events that she wrangles, as always, into great material. With this book however she goes a bit further in trying sort out life’s shit and […]

This is a book review

This Is a Book by Demetri Martin

June 18, 2020 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

Damn you, pandemic. I legitimately can’t tell anymore whether comedians are mildly amusing, or whether they are sidesplittingly hilarious and I’m just not into laughing these days. I became familiar with Demetri Martin through his Comedy Central series Important Things with Demetri Martin. I definitely recall laughing out loud at some of his drawings, so no surprise that the cartoons and graphs included in This Is a Book are the strongest bits. The essays and short stories in this collection are kind of a mixed bag. […]

Did Amy Schumer and I just become best friends?

The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer

May 10, 2020 by randirock Leave a Comment

This was my second reading of The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo, and I enjoyed every minute of it. I LOVE biographies, especially auto-biographies. I love feeling as if I am seeing behind-the-scenes. In her first of what I hope will be a long line of books, Schumer really delivers. Vulnerability is probably my favorite trait in a human being, and throughout her book, Schumer is unceasingly, endearingly vulnerable. Schumer also holds my second favorite trait – a wicked sense of humor – which pretty […]

When I was a baby I urinated into my own mouth

James Acaster's classic scrapes by James Acaster

September 6, 2018 by tillie Leave a Comment

I first witnessed the glory that is James Acaster on an episode of Would I Lie to You where he recounted the, now infamous, cabbage tale. I watched that episode twice. Then I googled the man and watched pretty much everything on YouTube, including obscure clips from before anyone knew who he was. What I’m trying to say is that I was very much the target audience for this book and my review is in no way objective, but based purely on the fact that […]

Laugh, Learn and Cry with Trevor Noah

Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

December 26, 2017 by teresaelectro 2 Comments

Trevor Noah’s autobiography, Born a Crime: Stories from A South African Childhood, was my first audio book. I was determined to hear his narration and found the CD version at my local library. My car still has a cd player, so Trevor kept me company during my first week commuting to a new job. All I knew of Trevor Noah was he replaced Jon Stewart, grew up in South Africa and was a comedian. I had no idea what to expect from his book to be honest. […]

I tried to keep this review clean. I failed.

Back Story by David Mitchell

February 6, 2017 by tillie 9 Comments

On the first page I was laughing out loud. On the third page he made a reference to star trek. I am a simple girl. I like dark haired men and references to star trek. I really like David Mitchell (not the novelist). David Mitchell is famous for a million things; his cringeworthy “Mark” in Peep Show, being the other half (or the first half I suppose) of that Mitchell and Webb Look (and Sound), his many appearances on panel shows where he’s known for dry […]

Ellesfena on That Didn’t Really Happen.Yeah, before I finished volume 9 I fully intended to reread the whole series before volume 10 came out. Now I’m not sure I can....
narfna on “Wouldn’t it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you’d never know which were which.”Voyage of the Dawn Treader is the one I think I might like more now especially. It was way too existential for me as a...
faintingviolet on That Didn’t Really Happen.I'm ALSO not over it (only 2 and a half years for me) and was hit with a tidal wave of not okay-ness earlier this...
Ellesfena on “Wouldn’t it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you’d never know which were which.”This was always my second favorite as a kid (Voyage of the Dawn Treader was my fave), but I reread this a few years back...
LittlePlat on Penric and Desdemona, name a more iconic duoI loved this. A real proper, novel sized adventure for the two of them was exactly what I needed

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