Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

What's That Lady Doing? by Lou Sanders

10 reviews

rworrall78's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

honesty, some real wisdom,  mixed with some real fun nonsense. I love Lou when I hear her on the radio. I admire her even more now. The narration wasn't as sparky and free-flowing as ad lib Lou but it was nice to get to hear that more considered side of her. 


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jasecordova's review

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reflective medium-paced
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np16's review against another edition

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3.0

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pinkcanoe's review against another edition

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medium-paced

1.5

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ez_heath's review

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funny hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced

2.75

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leoniepeonie's review against another edition

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emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Yeah this was excellent. Lou is great and her life has been absolutely wild - it was really cool to see all that difficulty and pain as well as hilarious reckless abandon turned into something so bloody rich and great. She's a wise cookie and if you're going to read this I deffo recommend getting the audiobook because she makes lots of fun asides. A very raw, rich, silly, hilarious book. Wowee.
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brandie_abbie19's review

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emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

3.25

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notentirelyme's review against another edition

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challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
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manthasbookstack's review

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4.5

Thank you netgalley for the ARC. I really enjoyed this book. The short and snappy chapters made it incredibly easy to read. It is a credit to Lou Sanders how easy it was to binge read given some of the topics were incredibly heavy and important (check trigger warnings) I would also recommend the audio book that I’ve since listened to as she narrates it and her tone in it keeps you hooked!
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_inge's review

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dark funny inspiring reflective

3.0

I didn’t quite know Lou Sanders before reading this. Her style is very addictive though, and I was genuinely looking forward to getting back into listening to the audiobook. She discusses a lot of heavy topics like alcoholism and sexual assault, but it never feels like a difficult read somehow. That’s very well done. 

I wasn’t really sure what the focus of the book was, though. It has a central message about overcoming shame, but it’s not really explained how you’d do this (beyond explaining that we should all talk about shame more). Sanders went from struggling with alcoholism to becoming a famous comedian, which is a journey I’d love to have read about more. Instead, it seems to just… happen, out of the blue. Maybe that’s how it felt to her, but as a reader I felt I should be taking lessons from that particular part yet nothing was presented to me. What we did get is chapters on spirituality and feminism, and a lot of descriptions about her sex life. It was presented well enough so I wasn’t bored, but I wasn’t always sure what some of these segments added. 

I would highly recommend the audiobook if you’re picking this up, as it adds so much to the text - things like footnotes and chuckles, but also a recording of a chat she had with a friend at the end of the book. 
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