A review by lesserjoke
This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps

4.0

I mostly know actress Busy Philipps from her work on the long-running stage show / podcast the Thrilling Adventure Hour, and I'll admit that I primarily picked up this book hoping -- in vain, as it turns out -- for stories of that production. I'm glad that I did, however, because Philipps has some important, soul-baring insights to share from her life and acting career within these pages. The author is blunt and uncompromising about her experiences with rape, abortion, mental health, childbirth, Hollywood fatphobia, and abusers like James Franco and Harvey Weinstein. Although I wouldn't quite say it's an essential memoir on any of these topics, it rings with an emotional honesty throughout.