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Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby

88 reviews

sighclopss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Violence, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Suicide, Mass/school shootings, Abortion, and Alcohol

buttermellow's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Misogyny, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Minor: Abortion

shirarweiss's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

5.0

Beautiful heartwrenching hilarious vulnerable intimate gut punch. All the things. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Grief, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

maddelpop's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

sarahrcb's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual assault

Minor: Ableism and Suicidal thoughts

merimyers's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring slow-paced

4.5

I loved this. I believe you need to watch Nanette before reading it, but now I’m going to go and watch Nanette again with this supporting it.  I found some parts difficult to read and the timeline jumped around a little, I could have done with more markers indicating the time shift.
All up a good book that is so revealing and important for all people to read to learn more about both neurodiversity and sexuality and the impacts the ‘norms’ have on those who identify as either or both.
Thank you Hannah.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Drug use, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Lesbophobia

manyofmae's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual harassment

poison_frogs's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Rape, Lesbophobia, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Hate crime, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

Minor: Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Abortion

emwilliams's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

The last two sections about the composition of Nanette the comedy show is incredible in its structure. The previous eight sections are the context you need to appreciate what Gadsby is doing and why. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

shortstackz's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

5.0

If you are a fan of Hannah Gadsby's performances, I highly recommend this in audiobook format. They lay their life bare, looking the hardest moments of their life directly in the face while still being kind to their "villains". That being said it is not something that everyone can read, it deals with a lot of the nuance of moving through trauma after rape or the systemic oppression of being a queer person before marriage was even a possibility. Please proceed with caution.

It's a story told honestly and gives context to the world around itself. I love how they contextualize Tasmania and the political climate of Australia in reference to their own journey through developing as an undiagnosed neurodivergent human. Hannah put forth the effort of acknowledging where their own privilege lies, and unapologetically says "please see the affected group for more on that". At it's heart, ten steps to Nanette is the directors cut of the Netflix special Nanette. The audiobook is definitely worth it on this one

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Violence, Grief, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Dysphoria