Accidentally thought this was a work of fiction (it's not), but still enjoyed the book.
This is a memoir of Katherine Ryan's life from her childhood to more recent years. There's some fun and funny anecdotes, but also some more serious topics giving me a little more insight into the person she is (and coincidentally, her good friend Jimmy Carr, who I've generally disliked but her book has helped me see them in a new light).
I don't particularly enjoy reading memoirs or biographies, and I seemed to go through a run of comedian memoirs recently, but this was generally good (though I still would have liked to read a fictional book by her too!).
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couple's counselling which, from my personal and limited experience, is only helpful in the unlikely scenario that your differences are reconcilable but you both lack communication skills. It's a waste of time if you're already able to articulate quite clearly that you don't like each other and that you're unwilling or unable to change.
or just for the joy and camaraderie of slagging someone off.
re-evaluating what they'll accept as progressive comedy versus mean-spirited jokes.
letting go isn't the same as giving up. That part was key for me. I had confused commitment and resilience with toxic co-dependency.
I figured nobody comes to the end of their life and thinks, 'Yeah . . . but I wish I'd had fewer children.'
The doctor had warned me not to kiss the dogs as they get their noses into all sorts of things outside, so it was akin to 'rimming a fox', but I never listened.
There's an excellent book called Invisible Women, written by Caroline Criado Perez, which exposes data bias in a world designed for men, and I think it offers good insight into why this blind spot in medical research might exist.