Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


If you want a no-holds-barred look at growing up as an undiagnosed autistic, you can’t really do better than this

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

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Having never had even a passing interest in Taskmaster, only watching one episode and not getting it (my wife’s obsession with Taskmaster TikToks had led to us searching out episodes on YouTube), I knew nothing about Fern Brady going into this. All I knew of her was that she was autistic and a comedian, and all I knew of the book was that it was about her experience as a woman with autism. Suffice it to say, I was surprised by all the different turns her […]

“For most autistics existing in a world not built for them, anxiety is the baseline and constant background hum that their daily life has to play over.”

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

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Before this book I knew Fern Brady not at all. She’s made a name for herself between the UK comedy and television scenes, and while I enjoy a British panel show I’ve managed to miss Brady entirely. I decided to request this book from NetGalley based purely on the fact that this is a memoir of a woman who was diagnosed with autism as an adult and that’s a story I am very interested in. Like Brady, I too do a reasonably convincing impression of […]

It’s Her, Fern Brady

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

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The British panel show Taskmaster has enriched my life in so many ways. Every season, a group of five comedians compete for the Taskmaster’s approval in a series of preposterous little games designed to test both their lateral thinking skills and their willingness to look ridiculous on television. One of the contestants in Series 14 of the show was Scottish comedian Fern Brady, who I’d previously seen on a few other shows but had not made much of an impression. On Taskmaster, however, she was […]



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