pickI picked this up for the nun content and had no idea that the author was a comedian in her past life. Turns out, she regularly got up on stage with The Groundlings and told jokes alongside rockstars like Jennifer Coolidge, Cheri Oteri, and…Mo Willems?! She even had an anecdote about how Sarah Michelle Gellar couldn‘t be bothered to shake her hand at a party once. 😅
Anyway, this was a very wholesome, earnest, & straightforward read…
monalyisha 1/1:…which felt like a welcome rest after some of the more experimental books I‘ve been consuming. I wouldn‘t call it a “comfort read,” though, given the turbulence of her childhood and early life. She went from growing up dirt poor in the South in an abusive household with an addict father, to attending NYU and ultimately joining a convent. The range of her experiences is fascinating — desperately sad and heartening, by turns. 3mo
monalyisha *Note: I wouldn‘t use the word “hilarious” to describe the author‘s voice or the tone of her memoir (tragic circumstances aside). It‘s colloquial and smooth, and not without humor…but I think she‘s much more suited to her spiritual calling than a comedic one with a microphone and rubber chicken in hand. But, oh, what an image! Habit + rubber chicken = pure gold. 3mo
