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Nanette – kymmenen askelta by Hannah Gadsby

55 reviews

beccaruthe's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Homophobia, Cancer, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Alcohol, Bullying, Lesbophobia, Alcoholism, and Blood

Moderate: Drug use, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Death, Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, Cursing, Excrement, Medical trauma, Racism, and Rape

Minor: Mass/school shootings, Pedophilia, Terminal illness, Animal death, Colonisation, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Biphobia, Murder, Pregnancy, Abortion, Grief, Gun violence, and War

fishrgreat's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Child abuse, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

shiran_fa's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Perfection 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Bullying, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Hate crime, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Pedophilia, and Sexism

Minor: Cancer, Abortion, and Animal death

maxandrambo's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, and Child abuse

Minor: Rape and Suicidal thoughts

mpimental's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence

Minor: Drug use, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

xeniba's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

I love everything Hannah Gadsby does and this is no exception. I will say that I felt the chronological retelling of her childhood slogged a little bit. Once I got through that and into her adult years, comedy, and creating Nanette I was absolutely hooked, could not put it down. I resonate with so many of Hannah’s experiences as a queer, autistic person who was socialized female. Highly, highly recommend. It also makes me want to rewatch Nanette (and maybe listen to the audiobook of this!).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Bullying, Alcohol, Mental illness, Hate crime, Fatphobia, Sexual violence, Rape, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Homophobia, and Body shaming

Minor: Drug use and Gun violence

dr_aimz's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Violence, Body shaming, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Sexual assault, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, and Cancer

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

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

Thanks to Random House for the free copy of this book.

 - TEN STEPS TO NANETTE is one of the best memoirs I've ever read. Hannah Gadsby is both funny and vulnerable, thoughtful and pulling no punches.
- I admired the way she navigated talking about some of the horrible things she has lived through, taking a stance of "you need to know about this event for storytelling purposes, but that does not entitle you to every last detail."
- I highly recommend the audiobook, read by Gadsby herself. You get the comedic timing and the emotional impact of her live shows, plus audio clips of her performing are added into the audio where relevant. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Alcohol, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Ableism, Blood, Cancer, Cursing, Grief, Hate crime, Bullying, Medical content, Sexual violence, Violence, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Abortion

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.