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Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby

27 reviews

davidbythebay's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Beautifully done. I listened to the audiobook read by Hannah Gadsby, with occasional audio clips from the Nanette Netflix special. This was heart-rending, honest, illuminating, and eviscerating in its joy and sorrow. I loved listening to Gadsby's story and the process undertaken to create Nanette. Beginning in childhood and giving context to much of her stand up as well as her life, this was a brilliantly crafted memoir of sorts. Without shying away, much like in her Nanette special, Gadsby speaks about her traumas. Trigger warnings for sexual assault, rape, child sexual abuse, homophobia, violence, hate crimes, neurodivergent abuse. Thank you, Hannah, for sharing your story and enlightening the world so much through Nanette and this memoir.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexism

sidhe's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Ableism

Moderate: Rape, Physical abuse, and Sexism

Minor: Suicide

shinysarah28's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Physical abuse, Child abuse, 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.

readbyleo's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Ableism, Violence, Sexual violence, Rape, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, and Body shaming

Minor: Cancer and Animal death

catastrophic's review against another edition

funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

PLEASE READ THIS. If you're autistic, have ADHD, if you're LGBT+, and/or a woman, you will feel so much less alone. If you want to better understand those experiences, this gives such a rich  insight along with Hannah's classic humour lightening things up as you go. Please read this 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Homophobia, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Ableism, and Rape

Moderate: Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Bullying

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.