My Life as a Goddess
Ratings6
Average rating4.6
Guy Branum is unabashedly honest, biting, funny, incisive, and wholly true to himself. This is a really compelling look at his life and career.
I'm sure this is the most trite and overused description of this book, but it's true: it's funny, smart, and emotional.
There's so much that I relate to in his story and I have several friends to whom I will recommend this.
I LOVED this book. I'm familiar with Guy Branum's work but wasn't really a superfan or anything coming into this, but I was so impressed with how smart and funny and insightful he is. From the subtitle (and from other books I've read) I was a little nervous about this being a deep dive into sitcoms I never watched, but instead it's something much more universal. (While also specifically being a powerful story of growing up a closeted gay teen and later coming out as an adult, and processing the messaging he'd received from pop culture about sexuality.)
It's more melancholy than I'd expected, but it also has plenty of sharply funny lines. Plus, footnote jokes! I love a good footnote joke.