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A Heart That Hurts Is

A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney

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Comedian and actor Rob Delaney moved from Los Angeles to London with his wife and family to write and star in the tv series Catastrophe. They settle in, but when their youngest child, who had been born in London, is a year old, he is diagnosed with a brain tumour. He dies aged two. The book relates, beautifully, the stages of Henry’s life. The initial culture clashes that come from being Americans in the UK; navigating the intricacies of the NHS for his birth; the […]

I don’t want to review this book.

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This brief audiobook gave me a bit of  an existential crisis. It’s billed as  a funny memoir-type-thing written by a comedian. It says so right on the cover. Which is why I spent the first half of the book asking myself, “Is this humor? What is humor? Is anything humor? What is life? Why am I here?” It wasn’t that it was a bad book, exactly, although it wasn’t great. It just wasn’t funny at all. Delaney covers his early life and youthful misadventures and…maybe […]

This book had some great elements that just did not come together in any cohesive way

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Rob Delaney is apparently the funniest man on Twitter. I am not on Twitter, but I recognized some of the tweets in this book, so he must be funny enough to register on my non-Twitter radar. He acts, some. He’s also a decent writer, with a very sad and painful history of alcoholism that has led him to some very bad decision-making. Unfortunately, he combines all these elements (humor, career, alcoholism, stupid stunts) into one short collection of stories, with no sense of direction or cohesion. “I […]

For your Pajiba 10 Consideration: Hunky Hairy Feminist

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In the interest of full disclosure and some not so humble bragging, Rob Delany retweeted a tweet of mine.  It was from my work account about Medicaid expansion, but nevertheless, I consider it the high point of my professional social media career.  This experience alone would have compelled me to purchase his book.  But in addition to being hilarious on twitter, Rob is the co-creator of Catastrophe.  This show, available on Amazon Prime, is hilarious and heartbreaking and hits too close to home sometimes. Rob […]



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