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3.97 AVERAGE
3.97 AVERAGE
This book gave me so much hope in terms of travelling through hard times and I loved how real Notaro was with her own struggles and life.
I am a huge Tig fan, so I was excited to read this book. I already knew a lot of the story because I watched her (excellent) documentary on Netflix. I have to admit I wasn't a *huge* fan of her writing, it was a little all over the place. But I'm still giving this 4 stars because it was witty and sincere and heartfelt, and I did enjoy reading it.
I really love Tig Notaro's Live, a comedy album of a performance she did talking about her infectious disease C-Diff and serious health decline, her mother's passing, her breakup, and her cancer diagnosis, which all happened within a few months of each other. This memoir focuses heavily on the events Tig discusses in Live, in a very raw and honest manner. Her delivery in the audiobook was perfect, and matched the gloomy weather of the past couple days very well.
Pro-tip. Don't listen to the part about her breast cancer while you're on your way to get your semi-annual mammogram and ultrasound because you have abnormal mammograms. It may make you freak out.
Or so I'm told. ;*)
Or so I'm told. ;*)
I thoroughly enjoyed this book! I have loved Tig since some of her early bits (long before Live) and had heard many parts of this in various forms of her comedy standup and TV show. But I wasn’t totally prepared for how emotional it would make me regarding my mother (who is alive and I love) and what eventually will come to pass. Like her standup, though, I think the way that the book was written gave me the opportunity to reflect on life and what it really means to have a fulfilling life that you can’t plan. If I could give it 10 stars I would.
I'd vaguely heard of Tig but hadn't watched any of her shows or really followed her work. Her slow, dry, deadpan humor is totally my cup of tea, and her story is touching. The memoir covers surviving her mother's death, dealing with C. Diff, and surviving cancer, all in one year. Really glad the audiobook was narrated by her. Definitely plan to catch the now famous Largo set.
Without being cheesy or over sentimental, Tig Notaro paints a picture of a unique life and how she faced losing her mom and being diagnosed with breast cancer all in the same short time period. I loved her raw honesty and her current outlook on life. Notaro may be a comedian but except for a few spots of sarcasm this book was more of a serious look at the changes life throws at us, the good and the bad, when we least expect it.
The first 5-6 chapters were rough-lots of grief and hard emotions, but wonderful
There is A Lot going on in this book: a life-threatening bacterial infection, the death of the author’s mother, a break-up, cancer and the threat of remission — and all within the span of a few months to boot. At the same time Tig recounts how this time of greatest personal tragedy also spurred sudden, unexpected professional success as a comedy writer/performer, which speaks volumes about our consumption of narratives of pain and suffering but also her skill in reclaiming a series of events otherwise beyond her control. I wish there’d been more from this memoir than a blow-by-blow account of how things unfolded, but I suppose for that there’s Tig’s actual stand-up work.
This book is incredible, just like everything Tig does. Everyone should read it.