Reviews - This Will Only Hurt a Little

This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps

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I enjoyed this quite a bit 🤷🏼‍♀️ really appreciated her narration and hearing true emotion in her voice. It's rare that people tear up when reading their memoirs but she did several times and it just added some authenticity to it for me. Also loved that she named and shamed sorry idgaf

aftbooks's review against another edition

2.0

Would not recommend.
I suppose if you like Busy Phillips it’s probably a 3 star. I listened to this as an audiobook I didn’t pay for and I found it very annoying, but I suppose I predicted it would be. In the book she mentions always feeling left out and trying to be part of something, and this book just feels like a desperate plea with no evolution. If I had to break it into sections the whining could be labeled “feel bad for me too”, “I’m so talented and no one knows it”, “look how many famous people I can name drop to make myself feel relevant”, “I discovered everything cool first”…if anything I listened to this in order to create an opinion on someone who I only knew of because of her grating voice. I felt as though there had to be something of interest because why else would someone write a memoir? If anything, instead of creating any allegiance or fanship this steered me very far in the other direction. It won’t be hard not to see this person in media at least…but I’m perturbed at the time wasted. Scroll on TikTok for a few hours as a better alternative (*declared with sarcasm and disdain but still true*)

francesca_swick's review against another edition

5.0

This book was so thematically strong, so consistent, with such a powerful voice throughout. Busy's story is alternatively hilarious and heartbreaking, and she has a real knack for telling a cohesive story. It isn't easy to tell the story of how you became famous, how you got from there to here without just hitting all the high notes and sounding like you're humble bragging page after page after page. Busy managed to authentically tell HER story, not the story of how she became famous, but the story of how she BECAME, and who she is at heart. I laughed, I cried, I fell in love with her and her voice. This is easily one of my favorite memoirs I have ever read, and as you can see I have read a LOT of them.

deedlydeeds's review against another edition

4.0

3.5 stars

claireypw's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional funny reflective fast-paced

desi421's review against another edition

2.0

This book was painful. I want to acknowledge her for sharing many of the horrific experiences of her life in such detail, but wow, this was painful.
Last 2 chapters were less painful, I will say.

pollybergen's review against another edition

4.0

I have so many things in common with Busy Philipps, who knew?! I cried a lot during those parts.

maf954's review against another edition

1.0

“That’s all I ever want to hear. That I’m the f*cking best.” It took Busy Phillips 293 pages to blatantly make clear the point she’d been whining about since page 1... and then, she kept going. There’s just so much name-dropping, and SO MANY capital letters - the book was a manifestation of her personality and her constant trying-so-hard, but never learning from her mistakes or mentors. She was very fortunate to have privilege on her side, and although she certainly faced challenges and bullies, she seems to think she’s entitled to things that many other women work insanely hard for. It’s an easy read, but save yourself the time.