Book Notes, Fiction # Ten Steps to Nanette By Hannah Gadsby, 2022 ★★★☆☆ First read in April 2022 --- I saw her comedy special “Nanette” on Netflix last year and was blown away. And then watched the only other show she has on Netflix, “Douglas”, and thought it was nothing short of genius. She’s a fantastic comedian and one of my top favourite comedy performers. This book, her autobiography, I found to be.. fragmented. Twisted, convoluted. But I guess that just makes it true to character. There’s this thing she says repeatedly in the book - that _“there’s no straight line through trauma”_. I think the book itself closely reflects that lack of a straight line. - **I liked** that it didn’t directly talk about the most horrific episode(s) of her trauma - there were no details given, no context, no proper plot or story around it. I found it to be in the spirit of the book, making the point to not put descriptive focus on the abuse and satisfy the curiosity of the readers in that sense. - **I didn’t like** that it made me feel confused. The book somehow felt both like it had too many details and that there weren’t enough details. It felt like she was sharing but also constantly hitting the breaks. There was this.. disconnect. Something strange about it. Like a first person narrator with an impersonal tone. Something weird, unfamiliar, almost cold about it.  Is it the autism, coming through in her prose? :/  --- `Just carbon and water. Just atoms and the void.` ---