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A review by katscribefever
This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps
4.0
Even if they don't recognize her name, is there a modern American citizen who doesn't know her face? Doubtful.
This unpolished memoir shares the story of young Busy's ferocious determination to get what she wants, a driving force that carries her through a lifetime of truly terrible incidents. As the years pass, that stick-to-itiveness nurtures a strong self-awareness and unapologetic philosophy for "only know[ing] how to be myself." While many celebrity memoirs typically throw a veil over the names of people that have hurt its author, Busy shares with no such shield; she refuses to hide the identities of the (mostly male) people whose actions haunt her still. I'm sure there are plenty of readers that will find that choice tactless, or uncalled for. I, however, take no issue with her revealing the names of the persons who sexually abused her or who commandeered her script idea and eventually removed her name from it completely in the name of "doing what's best for the boys."
In this book, Busy Phillips, a woman whose off-color comedy has brought me to tears of laughter plenty of times, manages to stir a different kind of eye-leakage from my face as she candidly talks about her life. I loved this.
This unpolished memoir shares the story of young Busy's ferocious determination to get what she wants, a driving force that carries her through a lifetime of truly terrible incidents. As the years pass, that stick-to-itiveness nurtures a strong self-awareness and unapologetic philosophy for "only know[ing] how to be myself." While many celebrity memoirs typically throw a veil over the names of people that have hurt its author, Busy shares with no such shield; she refuses to hide the identities of the (mostly male) people whose actions haunt her still. I'm sure there are plenty of readers that will find that choice tactless, or uncalled for. I, however, take no issue with her revealing the names of the persons who sexually abused her or who commandeered her script idea and eventually removed her name from it completely in the name of "doing what's best for the boys."
In this book, Busy Phillips, a woman whose off-color comedy has brought me to tears of laughter plenty of times, manages to stir a different kind of eye-leakage from my face as she candidly talks about her life. I loved this.