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A review by baileybrett
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Did not finish book. Stopped at 36%.
The author has a chipper, friendly voice, and the writing is passable (this ain't getting taught in literature class).
What I didn't like and ultimately bored me is I didn't find the writing good enough to add anything to the conversation on the therapy memoir subgenre. I felt like the book got picked up and published less on the caliber of the writing or the originality of anything she had to say but because of her platform as a television writer (which she tells us all about, in what felt like an attempt to star-stud).
I don't understand the popularity of this book.
Readalikes: Group by Christie Tate, or Good Morning, Monster by Christine Gildiner, although head's up the latter author expresses some extremely problematic opinions. (Like, a patient says, "No one will want me now I have herpes" and the author says, "She had a good point." The hell kind of sex-shaming judgment is that?)
What I didn't like and ultimately bored me is I didn't find the writing good enough to add anything to the conversation on the therapy memoir subgenre. I felt like the book got picked up and published less on the caliber of the writing or the originality of anything she had to say but because of her platform as a television writer (which she tells us all about, in what felt like an attempt to star-stud).
I don't understand the popularity of this book.
Readalikes: Group by Christie Tate, or Good Morning, Monster by Christine Gildiner, although head's up the latter author expresses some extremely problematic opinions. (Like, a patient says, "No one will want me now I have herpes" and the author says, "She had a good point." The hell kind of sex-shaming judgment is that?)