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lizzybaby's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
fast-paced
5.0
Most memoirs fit into two categories: either someone has had a really interesting experience but isn’t a great writer, or they’re a great writer who nothing that interesting has happened to. This is a rare case where you have both.
Hilarious and devastating all at once.
Hilarious and devastating all at once.
erintowner's review
3.0
This book was a little disjointed and felt a little too ironic at times. I really liked the author's vulnerability, the light she shone on the dissonance in life (how things are complicated and often there are no black and white issues), and her writing about singing, how to be a woman, and Key West. Worth the read.
elisanolasco's review
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.25
I like her voice and it definitely had humor. I think it was hyped to me too much so I was expecting to love it more.
cyrenasea's review
5.0
This book...I wanted to read it faster than even my speed reading will allow and yet I never want to not have more of it to read.
sorrygottabail's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
2.25
ponch22's review
DNF review
Kept hearing Mallory of the Reading Glasses podcast hype this book up as one of her favorites (if not of all time, at least of 2017) & added the book to my library e-holds list.
When it finally came a few weeks ago, I started reading it without knowing what it was about. Maybe I would have liked it more if I read the summary first, but after getting a few chapters in, I just couldn't help from comparing it to a similar blockbuster (114 weeks on the NYT Best Seller list!) I read earlier this year, Tara Westover's Educated.
Unfortunately, I was not a fan of Patricia Lockwood's writing. It was shortly after reading the sentence, "Diapered, moody horses clopped by at all hours pulling carriages of kindhearted tourists, which is as good a metaphor for writing as any I can think of." that I decided maybe Priestdaddy wasn't for me.
Sorry Mallory, but the way Lockwood decided to jump around in her memoir, I had trouble following what was happening or why I should care. The "clever" writing wasn't my cup of tea so I wasn't getting much joy out of reading this and I have plenty of other books on my To Read list to waste time here.
Kept hearing Mallory of the Reading Glasses podcast hype this book up as one of her favorites (if not of all time, at least of 2017) & added the book to my library e-holds list.
When it finally came a few weeks ago, I started reading it without knowing what it was about. Maybe I would have liked it more if I read the summary first, but after getting a few chapters in, I just couldn't help from comparing it to a similar blockbuster (114 weeks on the NYT Best Seller list!) I read earlier this year, Tara Westover's Educated.
Unfortunately, I was not a fan of Patricia Lockwood's writing. It was shortly after reading the sentence, "Diapered, moody horses clopped by at all hours pulling carriages of kindhearted tourists, which is as good a metaphor for writing as any I can think of." that I decided maybe Priestdaddy wasn't for me.
Sorry Mallory, but the way Lockwood decided to jump around in her memoir, I had trouble following what was happening or why I should care. The "clever" writing wasn't my cup of tea so I wasn't getting much joy out of reading this and I have plenty of other books on my To Read list to waste time here.
lexistwick's review
funny
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
sad
slow-paced
4.75
I chipped away at this book for the better part of two months, which is no reflection on my enjoyment of the book but the density of its humor and poetic observation. It is epically funny and will belong on my shelf of women inspiring me to write my own memoirs one day.