My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

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My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

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To Pritchett's credit she bypasses sounding too maudlin and steadily keeps the tone breezy and succinct, with her sharp essays or chapters usually only one or two pages in length.

Louisa Joyner said: ‘Since opening Georgia’s manuscript my life has improved – never mind that the book is brilliant and funny and kind and generous and wise – I felt instantly that I had made a fantastic new friend on the page and I cannot wait to share that joy with a LOT of people. I liked the anecdotal style as I felt it was reflective of an anxious overthinking brain so it felt right. At times, she made me laugh out loud, and I especially enjoyed her account of parenting her sons and her efforts to deal with anxiety. Though I don't have the successful career she has had, a lot of it resonated as she talked about her childhood, family, school, college, personal relationships and professional career and anxiety weaving its way through all of those.

Beginning with memories from far back in her childhood through her teenage years up to the present, Pritchett strings together anecdotes and musings about her life.

But it’s more than just a few laughs; Pritchett is very frank and honest about the highs (working on Veep) and the lows (two young sons on the autism spectrum) of her life, all navigated while managing her own intense anxiety.

I wasn’t familiar with the name of Georgia Pritchett, but unwittingly I was already familiar with some of comedic writing work from the satirical programmes and the recent amazing ‘Succession’, so this really was purchased on the basis of cover and enticing title and a great choice of narrator. This memoir, told in gloriously comic vignettes, is an utterly joyful reflection on living – and sometimes thriving sometimes not – with anxiety. She addresses all these different aspects of her life with self-deprecatory humour balanced with emotionally charged moments. I thought most of the snippets were trying too hard to be funny (NOT succeeding), trying to be offbeat or trite (worrying about being single, dying alone, finding her body weeks later with her cat …).

The written word hasn’t made me laugh out loud like this for ages – and you all know how funny words can be. A truly funny passage can be read, read again and re-read and one can be guaranteed to throw up a guffaw each time. I highly recommend the audiobook version because the narration was so natural, it was like Georgia Pritchett was having a conversation with you (even though it was narrated by someone else). Możliwe, że późniejsze teksty byłyby bardziej relatable (bo chyba tematycznie idą one z wiekiem autorki), no ale cóż - nie chce mi się tego sprawdzać. This book contains a series of vignettes depicting and inflating (no doubt) some of the most absurd elements of Pritchett’s life.This was at times funny and relatable, I can definitely see the comparison to Jenny Lawson, and the description that drew me in felt delivered on. to embracing womanhood, (One way of knowing you have crossed from girlhood to womanhood is that men stop furtively masturbating at you from bushes and start shouting things at you from cars. While not read by Georgia herself, Katherine Parkinson did a good job as narrator of this audiobook. This felt like reading a very chaotic manifestation of someone's thoughts, snippets of memories and emotions over the course of their life.



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