Life Will be the Death of me : : and You, Too!

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Call Number: 792.702 Ha, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Musicians & Entertainers / Handler, Chelsea
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

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Where have I been all my life -- Room temperature water -- Death Valley -- Tammy time -- Seymour -- Chunk -- Oh, mother -- Ayahuasca -- Moving hillsides -- New love -- TK -- Marijuana keeps families together -- TK -- The year I became me.
"In a haze of vape smoke on a rare windy night in LA in the fall of 2016, Chelsea Handler daydreams about what life will be like with a woman in the White House. And then, Donald Trump happens. In a torpor of despair, she decides that she's had enough of the privileged bubble she's lived in--a bubble within a bubble--and that it's time to make some changes, both in her personal life and in the world at large. At home, she embarks on a 'Year of Self-Sufficiency'--learning how to work the remote, how to pick up dog shit, where to find the toaster. She meets her match in an earnest, brainy psychiatrist and enters into therapy, prepared to do the heavy lifting required to look within and make sense of a childhood marked by love and loss and to figure out why people are afraid of her. She becomes politically active--finding her voice as an advocate for change, having difficult conversations, and energizing her base. In the process, she develops a healthy fixation on Special Counsel Robert Mueller and, through unflinching self-reflection and psychological excavation, she unearths some glittering truths that light up the road ahead. This is a thrillingly honest, insightful, and deeply, darkly funny memoir that is the perfect read for this moment in time"-- Provided by publisher.

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not my favorite submitted by kerstinrh on June 20, 2019, 6:33pm This was not my favorite book. I read a number of Chelsea Handler's books years ago and I enjoyed them. I liked the humor and stories of her life she had to tell. This book was a lot of back and forth conversations she has had with her therapist Dan which I did not find all that interesting. It was like she recorded her therapy sessions and just rehashed the conversations for this book. There were a few of the stories like I enjoyed in her other books but not nearly enough. A lot of the book was about the death of her brother, mother and father and it did not have the humor I am used to hearing from her.⁣

Different side of Chelsea submitted by amk08 on August 2, 2020, 12:05pm I have been a Chelsea fan for awhile. I’ve read all her books and seen her shows. This book was a different side of Chelsea. She has always been honest but this was different. Lots of reflection on her life. I laughed and I cried. Very good!