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dlberglund 's review for:
I'm Just a Person
by Tig Notaro
It was what I hoped for- personal, tragic, and funny. Her voice is always there, and I barely had time to catch my breath before something else smacks her life around again. Kind of like her life, right?
It jumps around a little too much; we don't get to see much about her years paying her stand up dues, for example. The last few chapters are disorganized- why tell me about her stepfather Ric's robot-like attitude toward your mother's will AFTER the drive to visit his family for thanksgiving a few months later? I couldn't figure out if she knew what she really wanted to say about her stepfather Ric. Or her absent father, for that matter. Her baby mania also seemed to come out of nowhere, or perhaps just out of the fear of imminent death. These things in the ending chapters overshadowed for me the pace and arc of the book as a whole.
But did I like it? Yes. Did I talk about it, watch clips, make other people watch clips? Yes.
It jumps around a little too much; we don't get to see much about her years paying her stand up dues, for example. The last few chapters are disorganized- why tell me about her stepfather Ric's robot-like attitude toward your mother's will AFTER the drive to visit his family for thanksgiving a few months later? I couldn't figure out if she knew what she really wanted to say about her stepfather Ric. Or her absent father, for that matter. Her baby mania also seemed to come out of nowhere, or perhaps just out of the fear of imminent death. These things in the ending chapters overshadowed for me the pace and arc of the book as a whole.
But did I like it? Yes. Did I talk about it, watch clips, make other people watch clips? Yes.