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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
I thoroughly enjoyed this. The prose cracks along, at times laugh out loud funny and others poignant. It's smart, honest and real about growing up Asian and gay in Australia. Highly recommended
Enjoyable and thoroughly readable -- light and funny in parts but bittersweet and poignant enough to balance it out and make it a worthwhile read.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
sad
medium-paced
He bares his soul and tells everything about the life of his immigrant family, and even some stories which I felt quite personal to him. It's amusing, witty, and probably too revealing for some readers.
This book is characteristically Australian in that it's hilarious but also awkwardly raw at times.
Benjamin Law seems like a peach.
Benjamin Law seems like a peach.
Having watched the tv series, I thought I would read the book! Quite funny at times, and interesting in the way in which it is written - snippets of family life on the North Coast rather than a memoir in chronological order. Jenny is a great character, and definitely the star of the book! The settings are totally recognisable, as are some of the anecdotes, but others are sometimes confronting, terrifying and sad. A roller coaster read, but a good one.
Amazing! I'm so glad that I read this. What a family. Quirky, adorable and outlandish.
Of this, more later. Or perhaps not. At any rate, Benjamin Law represents a lot of what I feel is wrong about a large subset of the Australian writing scene, and until the control of words is wrested from the likes of him and Marieke Hardy I will not be satisfied.
funny
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Like an Australian David Sedaris, balanced the perfect mix of unbelievable tales that had me laughing and reflections on that of a queer Asian growing up in Australia, a perspective I appreciated to learn about.
I thought I was reading this book for 3 weeks but turns out it was only a week ????? I was only reading it on my commute + breaks at work as I didn't feel like reading at night.
If you want to read a biography (is that would this would be considered as? memoir?) that's laugh out loud while on public transport, makes you feel emotion and takes a look into growing up in QLD, as a chinese family then this is your book.
Law has been probably one of my favourite writers since Frankie Mag (actually his was the first I read, and was disappointed when he wasn't featured) and this book doesn't deter this at all. It's full of funny quotes, anecdotes and stories while all the reason being relatable (well as relatable as I could find it as a white woman) growing up in Australia.
The best character within this whole book is Jenny - his mother. She's my ultimate hero. Witty, funny and full of sass - I guess that's why Law turned out the way he did.
If you want to read a biography (is that would this would be considered as? memoir?) that's laugh out loud while on public transport, makes you feel emotion and takes a look into growing up in QLD, as a chinese family then this is your book.
Law has been probably one of my favourite writers since Frankie Mag (actually his was the first I read, and was disappointed when he wasn't featured) and this book doesn't deter this at all. It's full of funny quotes, anecdotes and stories while all the reason being relatable (well as relatable as I could find it as a white woman) growing up in Australia.
The best character within this whole book is Jenny - his mother. She's my ultimate hero. Witty, funny and full of sass - I guess that's why Law turned out the way he did.