Lifeform by Jenny Slate
on October 22, 2024
Genres: Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs, Family & Relationships / Parenting / Motherhood, Humor / Form / Essays
Pages: 240
Format: Audiobook, Hardcover
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Jenny Slate was a human mammal who sniffed the air every morning hoping to find another person to love who would love her, and in that period there was a deep dark loneliness that she had to face and befriend, and then we are pleased to report that she did fall in love, and in that period she was like chimes, or a flock of clean breaths, and her spine lying flat was the many-colored planks on the xylophone, but also she was rabid with fear of losing this love, because of past injury. And then what happened was that she became a wild-pregnant-mammal-thing and then she exploded herself by having a whole baby blast through her vagina during a global plague and then she was expected to carry on like everything was normal—but was this normal, and had she or anything ever been normal? Herein lies an account of this journey, told in five phases—Single, True Love, Pregnancy, Baby, and Ongoing—through luminous, laugh-out-loud funny, unclassifiable essays that take the form of letters to a doctor, dreams of a stork, fantasy therapy sessions, gossip between racoons, excerpts from an imaginary olden timey play, obituaries, theories about post-partum hair loss, graduation speeches, and more.
What the hell was this? Was she on drugs when she wrote this or something…?! Wackadoodle in a bad way. I was really excited for this one! But it lacked focus, felt mildly deranged, and was also peppered with scenes from a terribly written play that had nothing to do with anything? Missed the mark for me. I love her as an actress and was very excited to read this, but I honestly have no clue what I read. Like it was trying to understand a toddler that doesn’t know the words to what they are trying to explain. I was looking forward to a heartfelt, relatable motherhood memoir but this was sort of all over the place and I couldn’t really get into it.
The only reason I gave it two stars is because I enjoy her as an actress and the only reason I did not DNF this was because it was very short and didn’t take up much of my time. Overall a bit disappointing if I’m completely honest. If someone can please explain to me what Jenny Slate was trying to say in this book of essays, I’d really appreciate it!
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