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Jenny Slate

Autor/a de Little Weirds

8+ obres 739 Membres 34 Ressenyes

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Crèdit de la imatge: Pete Holmes and Jenny Slate at BookExpo at the Javits Center in New York City, May 2019. By Rhododendrites - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79387594

Obres de Jenny Slate

Little Weirds (2019) 487 exemplars
About the House (2016) 15 exemplars
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On [2021 film] — Screenwriter; Actor — 8 exemplars
LANDLINE (2014) 2 exemplars
Sunlit Night, The 2 exemplars
My Blind Brother 1 exemplars

Obres associades

The Secret Life of Pets [2016 film] (2016) — Gidget — 380 exemplars
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax [2012 film] (2012) — Actor — 375 exemplars
Venom [2018 film] (2018) — Actor — 284 exemplars
Everything Everywhere All at Once [2022 film] (2022) — Actor — 182 exemplars
The Secret Life of Pets 2 [2019 film] (2019) — Actor — 100 exemplars
Gifted [2017 film] (2017) — Actor — 73 exemplars
Hotel Artemis [2018 film] (2018) — Actor — 42 exemplars
Obvious Child [2014 film] (2014) 13 exemplars
The Bob's Burgers Music Album (2015) — Preformer — 8 exemplars
The Bob's Burgers Music Album Vol. 2 (2021) — Preformer — 5 exemplars
The Longest Week [2014 Film] (2014) — Actor — 3 exemplars
Brain on Fire [2016 Film] (2016) — Actor — 1 exemplars
The Great North: Season 1 — Actor — 1 exemplars
The Great North: Season 2 — Actor — 1 exemplars
The Great North: Season 3 — Actor — 1 exemplars

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Coneixement comú

Data de naixement
1982-03-25
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
USA

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I'm familiar with Jenny Slate mainly as the creator and voice of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. I also tend to conflate her with Jenny Lawson (after reading this, I think the two Jennys would get along). So that was my knowledge heading into reading this autobiographical series of essays. Slate employs a creative prose style - sometimes stream-of-consciousness, sometimes dreamlike - that I enjoy to write about her life and ideas. Topics include growing up in a haunted house, divorce and looking for love, patriarchy, travel to Norway, animals, and death - so much death. It is - in fact - a little weird. Although I enjoyed the book's style I often wasn't all to interested in the content. Nevertheless, I still would liked it enough to want to check out Slate's movies, stand-up comedy shows, et al.… (més)
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Othemts | Hi ha 17 ressenyes més | Oct 5, 2023 |
This was mostly annoying until the last two or three essays in which she reveals the first morsels of her life and her personhood. Not worth reading the whole thing to get to that point—it didn’t feel like a unique experience, as other positive reviews had expressed :/
 
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victorier | Hi ha 17 ressenyes més | Aug 23, 2023 |
It's challenging to describe this book. If you are looking for a laugh out loud slap-your-leg romp of a read, this isn't it. Instead, this is a collection of vignettes that I'd say are much more literary than I anticipated, infused with Jenny Slate's totally original, quirky view of herself and the world. I really loved it. Here is a line that particularly resonated for me: "As the image of myself becomes sharper in my brain and more precious, I feel less afraid that someone else will erase me by denying me love."
Keep writing, Jenny!!!
… (més)
 
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Andy5185 | Hi ha 17 ressenyes més | Jul 9, 2023 |
Seeing the title, I can't really complain that this was weird.

This series of essays is sometimes stream of consciousness, sometimes almost-stories, always just "off" enough to be charming.

I listened to the audio, narrated by the author. I tend to think the author conveys their intentions when they narrate their own audio books, in which case the author's "deep thoughts" pace and tone really colored my perception of her writing in a very negative way. Speeding up the audio was the only way to get the words without the author's self-centeredness.

So 5 stars for the writing which is beautiful. 1 star for the author's narration - maybe not fair but she really should consider having someone else narrate future books. So I arrive at a rating of 3.
… (més)
 
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sriddell | Hi ha 17 ressenyes més | Aug 6, 2022 |

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Obres
8
També de
17
Membres
739
Popularitat
#34,365
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
34
ISBN
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