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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A curate's egg-ish kind of autobiography, which I might have preferred read out loud, by Sue Perkins herself. It's written in an engaging, chatty style, which can be funny, and can be moving and touching too. But too often she goes for the obvious laughs, and sometimes she seems to lose direction and narrative. A perfectly pleasant read, but I couldn't quite get to the end of it before I was forced to leave it behind, unfinished. And really, I didn't much mind at all. ( ) I don't think this book has been published in the US, so I had to order it from a British bookseller (affordable copies are available on ABE, Alibris, Amazon, etc.). I knew Sue Perkins only from a British TV series I had stumbled across (*not* the Great British Baking Show, which I started watching only after I read Sue's book), and I knew absolutely nothing about her -- but I wanted to, so I tracked down this book (a bestseller in the UK). Very enjoyable read -- she has a distinctive voice and a friendly, self-effacing style. Most Americans have no idea that Mel Giedroyc (also from the GBBS) is her longtime comedy partner. In fact, most Americans know nothing about Sue Perkins at ALL. Remedy that by reading this honest and amusing autobiography. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Me- Was I premature? Mum- Yes, you were a week early. Dad- I'm still not ready for you . . . When I began writing this book, I went home to find what my mum might have kept some of my old stuff. What I found was that she hadn't kept some of it. She had kept all of it- every bus ticket, postcard, school report - from the moment I was born to the moment I finally had the confidence to turn round and say, 'Why is our house full of this shit?' Sadly, a recycling 'incident' destroyed the bulk of this archive. This has meant two things- firstly, Dear Reader, you will never get to see countless drawings of wizards, read a poem about corn on the cob, or marvel at the kilos of brown flowers I so lovingly pressed as a child. Secondly, it's left me with no choice but to actually write this thing myself. This, my first ever book, will answer questions such as 'Is Mary Berry real?', 'Is it true you wear a surgical truss?' and 'Is a non-spherically symmetric gravitational pull from outside the observable universe responsible for some of the observed motion of large objects such as galactic clusters in the universe?' Most of this book is true. I have, of course, amplified my more positive characteristics in an effort to make you like me. Thank you for reading. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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