I don’t usually like Katherine’s comedy much. I sort of tolerate her as a guest on panel shows like Mock The Week and Big Fat Quiz, and don’t watch heI don’t usually like Katherine’s comedy much. I sort of tolerate her as a guest on panel shows like Mock The Week and Big Fat Quiz, and don’t watch her standup at all, but found myself really enjoying her podcast, Telling Everybody Everything because I enjoy hearing about her family life and experience as a mother and wife, and find her advice to listeners who write in to the show genuine and insightful - wise, even. That is what made me buy this book. It’s light and enjoyable, and interesting to hear a bit about her early life in Sarnia, arrival in Great Britain, birth of her daughter Violet, comedy career beginnings, and finally reuniting with and marrying Bobby K. She has a few interesting little insights into a friend, Jimmy Carr’s personality, that I haven’t seen on screen, too. Katherine is refreshing. ...more
I’m not a particular fan of Paloma’s music, but I remember enjoying her camaraderie with Noel Fielding and her adorable quirkiness and colourful outfiI’m not a particular fan of Paloma’s music, but I remember enjoying her camaraderie with Noel Fielding and her adorable quirkiness and colourful outfits on Never Mind The Buzzcocks. I also listened her account of her journey to have her first daughter on the Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast. I was going through an infertility journey of my own, and drank in all she said. As a new mother now, I bought the audio versio of this book to hear more about Paloma’s motherhood journey. My main impressions after finishing it are that she complains a lot about how hard pregnancy, birth and caring for children is (though she does emphasise often how much she loves her girls), and how hard it is to be a single mother in particular. She never adequately explains why she chose to end her relationship. It comes across that being with a younger man was fun while child-free and relatively young herself, but that after children arrived, she really would have preferred someone more practically and financially supportive - a better provider. She hardly ever admitted her own shortcomings, and was defensive of her own fairly selfish behaviour. She kind of came across as a bit spoiled and hard to identify with, I guess. I did enjoy parts of it, but my overall impression was one of a lot of complaining and self-justification. ...more
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