Title- Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Author- Lindy West
Narrator- Lindy West
Rating- ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
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I really enjoyed this one. My third Lindy West book and I can’t seem to get enough of this amazing woman. SO much was contained within this short audiobook at just around 6 hours. This seems like the most personal of all her books I’ve read so far, and a lot of her life was chronicled in this book.
It was emotional and hard hitting at times, as she talked about her relationships, marriage, loss of her dad, and battle with trolls regarding rape jokes. A lot of chapters in this book, she talks about reality and life as a fat woman just going through life.
Politics, comedy, pop culture, and other issues are also discusses in this book. I just love listening to Lindy talk about stuff that affects women. I’m not a fat woman by any means, but I was able to learn a lot from this amazing book!
I really enjoyed the audiobook, and I highly recommend it!
Blurb
Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible–like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you–writer and humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but.
From a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions; to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jokes; to her struggle to convince herself, and then the world, that fat people have value; to her accidental activism and never-ending battle royale with Internet trolls, Lindy narrates her life with a blend of humor and pathos that manages to make a trip to the abortion clinic funny and wring tears out of a story about diarrhea.
With inimitable good humor, vulnerability, and boundless charm, Lindy boldly shares how to survive in a world where not all stories are created equal and not all bodies are treated with equal respect, and how to weather hatred, loneliness, harassment, and loss–and walk away laughing. Shrill provocatively dissects what it means to become self-aware the hard way, to go from wanting to be silent and invisible to earning a living defending the silenced in all caps.
The Author
Lindy West is a columnist at The Guardian, a contributor to This American Life, and a freelance writer whose work focuses on feminism, social justice, humor, and body image. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Vulture, Jezebel, The Stranger, and others. She is the founder of I Believe You, It’s Not Your Fault, an advice blog for teens, as well as the reproductive rights destigmatization campaign #ShoutYourAbortion.
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