Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Ali Wong is a funny lady

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets and Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong

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Nowhere Books Bingo: About someone you want to learn more about I don’t think I’d heard of Ali Wong before her first Netflix special, Baby Cobra. I’ve now seen all her stand-up specials and also enjoyed Always Be My Maybe, a fun romantic comedy she wrote and starred in with Randall Park, and famously got Keanu Reeves to star as himself. I’ve heard very good things about Beef, but there’s just too much TV out there at the moment, and too little time (especially if […]

If you think Ali Wong is hilarious, read this book!

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong

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I have always loved Ali Wong, so had been meaning to read Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life for a while. Thus, I was delighted it was picked for my Mocha Girls Read book club in March. Semi-memoir, semi-humor, Dear Girls is a collection of hilarious letters to her young daughters for when they grow up. Wong talks about her upbringing, education, marriage, and of course her family. The audiobook is fantastic. This is a must if you’re […]

“A fiery, foul-mouthed preacher who offered up profane salvation.”

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong

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Like most Ali Wong fans, I first discovered the comic via her Netflix stand-up specials. They’re very funny, obviously, but also really relatable and comforting. If you have kids, she makes you feel like it’s ok to have the messy mix of emotions, dirty clothes, an unexpected swearing at strangers that comes with the joyful burden of parenting. It’s quite the mix – being so dirty (her word) and warm at once. The book is more of the same. Dear Girls is framed as Wong […]

Cannonball With a Delightful Memoir

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong

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Best for: Anyone who likes a good comedic memoir but also appreciates some sincerity. In a nutshell: Comedian Ali Wong shares stories from her life through the convention of letters to her two daughters. She also gives her husband the afterword to tell some of his perspective. Worth quoting: “You have suffered enough.” That became my mantra for motherhood from there on out. You have suffered enough. If you can make it easier, make it easier, and don’t feel guilty about it.” Why I chose […]

Mothers and Daughters

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong

Inside Out by Demi Moore

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These books are both celebrity memoirs, but they share a lot more than that. Both have a theme of the relationships between mothers and daughters — Wong’s trouble connecting with her mother which influences her relationship with her two daughters. And Demi’s rather terrifying childhood with her mother (and how she tried to repair the relationship as an adult) as well as her troubled relationship with her own three daughters. (4 stars) Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life […]



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