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4.51 AVERAGE
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emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
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reflective
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slow-paced
Vuoden ensimmäinen loppuun luettu kirja vaikuttikin syvästi. En saa tätä ajatuksistani, en ole saanut päiväkausiin. Gadsby kuvaa raivokkaan rehellisesti ja syvältä koskettavasti muun muassa itsekseen kasvamisen ja itsensä rakentamisen monimutkaista matkaa, autistisen queer-naisen elämää ja ponnisteluja ahdasmielisessä pikkukaupungissa, mielenterveyden ja traumojen kanssa kamppailua, perhesuhteita ja koomikon uran löytymistä monien mutkien kautta.
Ihan vain tämän kirjan lukeminen tekisi hyvin monille ihmisille hyvää! Ajattelemisen aihetta ja sulateltavaa pitkäksi aikaa.
Vaikka Gadsby on koomikko, tämä ei ole hauska kirja. Välillä kyllä naurattikin - ja itketti, monta kertaa.
Ihan vain tämän kirjan lukeminen tekisi hyvin monille ihmisille hyvää! Ajattelemisen aihetta ja sulateltavaa pitkäksi aikaa.
Vaikka Gadsby on koomikko, tämä ei ole hauska kirja. Välillä kyllä naurattikin - ja itketti, monta kertaa.
challenging
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
I absolutely love Hannah Gadsby. I love how she knows who she is, even though it has not always been easy to learn. I love how she accepts who she is. I love how she has boundaries and is uncompromising about them. By her own words, sh has broken apart and has put herself back together, and I think her strength displayed is something to truly be admired.
I know I keep saying I'm not a fan of memoirs - most of the time the author ends up coming off as a whiney victim; HOWEVER, recently I have read some really incredible memoirs and Ten Steps to Nanette is definitely in that company. I listened to the audiobook version and it was delightful listening to the author voice her own story. I laughed, I cried, and I thought A LOT about much of the content. Thoroughly enjoyable!
Enjoyed this dive in to Hannah Gadsby's story. Good on audio!
This is a very honest memoir, and it’s always interesting, because it takes you through Gadsby’s creative process, as she created the show Nanette. If you’ve seen the show, you know she really deconstructs comedy. And so this book is not like the usual comedian’s memoir, full of jokes. It can be quite funny, and the portraits of her parents are especially vivid. But it mostly focuses on putting her unique perceptions of the world into words.
Gadsby takes us through her life from the beginning, and she also inserts paragraphs that tell us what’s going on in the world – especially in regard to gay rights – during those years. Her coming out process was very slow, since homophobia was rampant in the small Tasmanian town where she grew up. It took her a long time even to admit it to herself. It also took a long time for her to discover that she was autistic. She closely describes these journeys towards self-awareness, with all the pain and confusion she experienced along the way.
Some quotes:
< When I was growing up it seemed as if I was destined to be 100 percent my father’s daughter, as evidenced by my inheriting some of his more distinctive physical features, like good facial symmetry, flat feet, weak ankles and having the heart rate of an elite athlete housed in the body of an elite potato. But sadly, like most women, I am making a very convincing, late-in-life run at turning into my mother. >
< Mum was a hairdresser by trade, but with five kids all born within a decade of each other she understandably didn’t seek to simultaneously dress the hair professionally. So whenever there was a school form that asked for Mother’s Occupation, Mum would simple write convict labourer. >
< My dad is not an excitable man. He is slow and measured, and you can always rely on him to be the calm in any storm and asleep in any other weather. >
< Whereas Mum could always be relied up to rustle up a strong opinion on any subject at very short notice, I’m not sure Dad has ever in his life formed any kind of point of view, although I do remember him once suddenly declaring that hummingbirds were pretty impressive, but other than that, he stays out of politics. >
Gadsby takes us through her life from the beginning, and she also inserts paragraphs that tell us what’s going on in the world – especially in regard to gay rights – during those years. Her coming out process was very slow, since homophobia was rampant in the small Tasmanian town where she grew up. It took her a long time even to admit it to herself. It also took a long time for her to discover that she was autistic. She closely describes these journeys towards self-awareness, with all the pain and confusion she experienced along the way.
Some quotes:
< When I was growing up it seemed as if I was destined to be 100 percent my father’s daughter, as evidenced by my inheriting some of his more distinctive physical features, like good facial symmetry, flat feet, weak ankles and having the heart rate of an elite athlete housed in the body of an elite potato. But sadly, like most women, I am making a very convincing, late-in-life run at turning into my mother. >
< Mum was a hairdresser by trade, but with five kids all born within a decade of each other she understandably didn’t seek to simultaneously dress the hair professionally. So whenever there was a school form that asked for Mother’s Occupation, Mum would simple write convict labourer. >
< My dad is not an excitable man. He is slow and measured, and you can always rely on him to be the calm in any storm and asleep in any other weather. >
< Whereas Mum could always be relied up to rustle up a strong opinion on any subject at very short notice, I’m not sure Dad has ever in his life formed any kind of point of view, although I do remember him once suddenly declaring that hummingbirds were pretty impressive, but other than that, he stays out of politics. >
Bloody hell. Harrowing, hilarious, and containing so much warmth and love that you can barely stand it! If Nanette the show was Hannah's magnum opus (I think Douglas might be even better in many ways), then this is the perfect companion piece. It's rare that an artist creates something as groundbreaking and important as Nanette, so to then also have the complete context for its development and evolution is as joyous as it is challenging to learn about. A magnificent book written by a magnificent, complicated human being.