paulinebelford 's review for:

Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life by David Mitchell

3.0

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This is fine as an audiobook for listening to when you are doing other things (like cooking), and in small chunks. It's largely a collection of newspaper columns from 2008 - 2014, and requires a knowledge of UK politics and culture of the time to fully be appreciated. Unfortunately, though they are funny, they are also very dated, reminding us wistfully of a time when the things we had to worry about were only the global financial crash and meercats. This was a time before Brexit and Covid-19, and when the idea of Trump or Johnson as world leaders was merely an amusing punchline. Great at the time, but hasn't remained particularly relevant.