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Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby

44 reviews

caikey11's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Drug use and Sexual assault

stories's review against another edition

5.0

Incredibly well written. Cyclic, moving, insightful, informative. Well paced, gorgeously done as an audiobook. Loved the expansions into state, national and global context. Loved the interwoven threads and references that carried. Each chapter was a well-constructed, self contained bundle, that still left you wanting to continue. 

Not sure if it would have been “better” to have already seen Nanette, but I hadn’t and I loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Rape, Body shaming, Colonisation, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pedophilia

Minor: Animal death, Death, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Self harm, Classism, Drug use, Murder, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Dysphoria, Gun violence, and Incest

Just, yknow. All the warnings. Heed the triggers provided at the start of the book. It’s carefully packaged, but triggers are triggers.

liormaleficent's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Gaslighting, Sexual violence, Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Dysphoria, and Fatphobia

naomiaoife's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Suicide, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Drug use, Misogyny, Rape, and Child abuse

jainabee's review against another edition

challenging funny inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Like all things Hannah Gadsby, this is not at all a typical memoir. I like how she weaves the history of the gay liberation movement in Australia with her own story. And always the surprising twists where she suddenly draws together a bunch of images that I thought were random or unrelated. I love how her brain works!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Bullying, Child abuse, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Lesbophobia, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Classism, Drug use, Outing, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, and Colonisation

Minor: Animal death, Cursing, Transphobia, Cancer, Gaslighting, and Genocide

jazzlioness's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Hate crime, and Homophobia

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Car accident and Abortion

There’s no way to know when these topics are going to come up and the whole book is a deep dive into a lot of different and inter-related traumas. It’s extremely intense.

cosmicsapphic's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Fatphobia, Drug abuse, Rape, Mental illness, and Drug use

isnotacrayon's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Child abuse, Violence, Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Sexual assault, Sexism, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gun violence and Drug use

mgcalder's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

A beautifully written memoir. Please don't read thinking this will be a purely funny book. But thank you for the ending Hannah it was perfect. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, and Mental illness

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts

murderbot42's review against another edition

3.75

Eh, this is why I don't read memoirs. Don't get me wrong. It was good! It was very, very good! But learning too much about a famous person's life is always a sketchy business. You're always going to learn something you didn't want to know and they're going to have opinions that you bounce off of. Thankfully that happened only very minimally in this book, so that's why I say it's very, very good!

And the parts that worked for me. Wow. Just wow. The part where she

kind of skipped over the sexual abuse she received at the hands of an unknown adult resonated with me so much. When she talked about reason she didn't bring up that subject more and make it front and center; it's because when you are in that situation, it's the last thing you want to do. You know on some level that this is wrong and your abuser has told you not to talk about it, and so you don't. You bury it deep inside until it almost seems you might forget about it.

When she said that I literally and actually broke down sobbing, she cut so close to the truth bone with that one.

Recommended for: Everyone honestly. Despite her saying some things I vehemently disagree with, we are all human and have all erred. Despite that content, if you have watched and enjoyed Nanette, it would be a crime not to read this. And if you haven't watched Nanette, what the fuck are you doing with your life, dude? Get on that!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Homophobia, Ableism, Body shaming, Misogyny, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Addiction, and Drug use