This Is Not A Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy Of Lo

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Nombre: This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life
Marca: G.P. Putnam's Sons

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Why We Cant Sleep meets Furiously Happy in this hilarious, heartfelt memoir about one womans midlife obsession with Benedict Cumberbatch, and the liberating power of reclaiming our passions as we age, whatever they may be.

Tabitha Carvan was a new mother, at home with two young children, when she fell for the actor Benedict Cumberbatch. You know the guy: strange name, alien face, made Sherlock so sexy that it became one of the most streamed shows in the world? The force of her fixation took everyoneespecially Carvan herselfby surprise. But what she slowly realized was that her preoccupation was not about Benedict Cumberbatch at all, as dashing as he might be. It was about finally feeling passionate about something, anything, again at a point in her life when she had lost touch with her own identity and sense of self.

In This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch, Carvan explores what happens to women's desires after we leave adolescence...and why the space in our lives for pure, unadulterated joy is squeezed ever smaller as we age. She shines a light onto the hidden corners of fandom, from the passion of the online communities to the profound real-world connections forged between Cumberbatch devotees. But more importantly, she asks: what happens if we simply decide to follow our interests like we used tounabashedly, audaciously, shamelessly? After all, Carvan realizes, theres true, untapped power in finding your thing (even if that thing happens to be a British-born Marvel superhero) and loving it like your life depends on it.


Review

One of Good Housekeepings 20 New Books to Add to Your Summer 2022 Reading List
One of PureWows 20 Best Beach Reads of Summer 2022

Part memoir, part self-help, this one will empower you to rediscover your own obsessions. And yes, Google image search the Sherlock actor, too." Good Housekeeping

The title alone inspires a smile, but the book itself is hilarious, and wise...[Carvans] story is really about the joy that comes with rediscovering and indulging youthful passions and pleasures. AARP

Winningly effervescent...[The book] seems written in the blush of first love, an aria of joyous discovery at the shedding of an obsolete inhibition...To read This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch is to follow Carvan on a path to overcoming her shame and reveling in the sheer frivolity of her love for the Sherlock star alongside the women [who] share it with her. Once she does, she proclaims, it felt so goodyou would not believe how good!that I didnt mind if it made me the biggest weirdo in the world. She almost makes you feel as good as that when she gets there. Slate

The real subject of [this] wonderfully fresh [take] on fandom is the unabashed, self-aware embrace of joy...[Carvan] considers the way we treat women who feel deeply: When a lot of women love anything, thats all we need to know about it. Subversively important stuff. Chicago Tribune

To describe the book merely as funny is a disservice to the author because [the] reader starts to appreciate that what Carvan is attempting to reconcile is a womans place and growth in the world. . . I hope I am always a reader who can appreciate a book like this one. Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star

A surprise midlife obsession with British actor Benedict Cumberbatch provides the occasion for musings on passion, aging, and identity in this spirited debut...Carvans self-aware approach wrings the absurdity out of her story to hilarious effect while touching on the realities of motherhood and fandom: Its not just about what we love, but how that love figures in our lives, and how it makes us feel. The result is a weird-in-the-best-way account of self-discovery that brims with humor and insight. Publishers Weekly, starred review

Quoting Brené Brown, Mary Oliver, and Gail Sheehy and referencing her own lifelong, complicated relationship with fandom, Carvan's loving but unapologetic manifesto is one to

CARACTERÍSTICAS PRINCIPALES:

-Idioma: Inglés
-Envío: Desde EE. UU.
-Libro Impreso y Nuevo

MÁS DETALLES:

Tiempo de entrega: 10 días
Peso del paquete: 1 kg
Medidas: 5 cm x 22 cm x 27 cm cm
Material: Papel
Modelo: 9780593421918
Meses de garantía: 1
Garantía: Por defecto de fabricación
Condición: Nuevo
Color: Multicolor
Nombre de color: Multicolor
ASIN: 0593421914
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta blanda
Editorial: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Titulo del libro: This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: Carvan, Tabitha
Fecha de publicación: 2022
Idioma: Inglés
Edición: 1
Número de páginas: 256
ISBN-13: 9780593421918
Edad mínima sugerida: 6
Genero musical: Literatura Universal
Contenido del paquete: 1 pieza
SKU: 9780593421918