Great read

Really enjoyable read. I found the going-off-on-tangents narration irritating at first, but hearing her being both witty and passionate about issues like FGM and rape culture is great.

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Says what needs saying and all funny like....

Two weeks ago my best friend's husband...whom I adore...got out his phone and showed a video of a topless woman dancing to Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines. We were a group of girls at a party. He was then angry when I said, quite calmly, that I didn't want to see it.

He said I was jealous of the woman's body.

This made me angrier than I have been in a very, very long time. I hope I don't have to explain why here.

I will be buying a hardback copy of Bridget Christie's masterwork in finding the funny in the blanket suppression of we, the majority, by willy owners and sometimes, even ourselves. I think it is the spoonful of sugar needed to help that
medicine go down.

My best friend had a little girl a few months ago...I'm buying the book for her sake.

Thanks Bridget, you are a legend.

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It's not just for her

Where does A Book for Her rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This audiobook really got me laughing; and thinking.

What about Bridget Christie’s performance did you like?

Christie is a terrific comedian so it's no surprise that the performance is great. She occasionally drops whatever the audiobook equivalent of the fourth wall is, chastising the listener for choosing the easy option of listening to rather than reading her book.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

She really does manage to make feminism very funny without trivialising it and without preaching.

Any additional comments?

This isn't just a book for people with women's ears, I have men's ears and I really enjoyed it.

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please give Bridget Christie everything.

this is my favourite book. if you have ever met a woman or enjoyed laughing then this book is for you. so well performed, so well written, so sparkling with intelligence, so full of GREAT jokes about everything from cheese to periods to Sir Sterling Moss, I am going to listen to it again immediately AND buy the actual real book because Bridget Christie deserves absolutely everything that there is, all of it, she deserves every object and thing on the face of the earth, I am going to post all of my earthly possessions to her and become a full time monk at the church of Christie and shave the middle bit of my head like Friar Tuck. please join me, she's the best. thank you

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Lots of things to think about - funny too!

I enjoyed Bridget's book and loved her narration. Lots of great points made and shows how peculiar the world still is for women, not to mention scary. This book also made me laugh a lot at the absurdiness of it all and made me want to stick up for us females. Thanks Bridget!

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Not just for the ladies

Hilarious, thoughtful and moving. Christie's well honed performance style makes this my favourite recent listen.

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LOVED THIS BOOK - essential for all humans!

Bridget Christie is incredibly astute and also incredibly funny. I couldn't have loved this book, her as an author or her amazing narration more. Am hitting the "play again" button, I've got a feeling I'll listen to this over and over!! Don't hesitate, download this now.

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Just discovered Bridget Christie now she's my fave

What did you like most about A Book for Her?

Her interjections whilst reading her Audiobook made it so much more enjoyable!

What was one of the most memorable moments of A Book for Her?

The yoghurt advert anecdote

Have you listened to any of Bridget Christie’s other performances? How does this one compare?

I listened to Mind the Gap right before this book. This is just as brilliantly funny and insightful, if not more so. There is some repetition of material though but that's cool as I appreciate that not everyone will have heard Mind the Gap.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Hell yeah!

Any additional comments?

Please, please, please write another book!

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Fantastic.

Words cannot express just how much I enjoyed this audiobook (somewhat ironically). Bridget has the most engaging style of delivery. Just go on and buy it!!

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Thanks for doing an audio book...

...the assumption made early on that everyone who listens to audiobooks is somehow lazy and doesn't understand how to use a real book is incorrect. As a blind person I desperately tried to find the Braille version of the book. Despite spending several hours in a number of bookshops fondling the shelves in the feminist section I could not find it, although I did accidentally molest a couple of feminists and get forcibly removed and barred from one of the shops. For some reason being blind was not an acceptable defence and was overlooked due to my being male.

Anyways, having listened to the book in all its animated glory I can only conclude that the Braille version would have seemed a little dry in comparison.

As a sanctimonious hypocrite I find that comedy with a purpose or message is the best comedy of all and thoroughly enjoyed this book. The bits about FGM horrified me but also lead me on a trail where I discovered MGM. Contrary to FGM which has been high profile in the media and politically I found that MGM was not on anyone's agenda. I found this odd, why not just make an issue of genital mutilation performed on anyone regardless of sex? Why ignore it in one sex in preference of another? Why the division? It almost suggests that MGM is not even an issue or that the cultural mutilation of males does not matter.

As a result I have started a campaign group to try and stop mgm. Our first protest outside of a Brit milah in Kensington didn't go so well. We were arrested and prosecuted for anti semitism. It seems lack of consent from an 8 day old baby does not matter if the WHO say that sub Saharan men are less likely to contract HIV if they have been circumcised. I wonder if they have stats on HIV for men who have been castrated in their youth? The feminists I have met also mostly think Leviticus 12:3 is not a particularly offensive part of the Bible in contrast with the vast bulk of the rest of it.

Our second protest targeted the Warrumanga tribe from Australia but we were accused of racism and supporting anti indigenous hate groups.

Next we are moving on to a campaign about the Xhosa: teenage boys undergo genital mutilation often become seriously unwell due to infection and sometimes die for a number of reasons associated with the procedure and the rite of passage that follows. We have been told by authoritative sources that we will be ignored by people from that culture because we are not real men - having not been circumcised. (Not that we'd intended to get our dangly bits out at the protest.)

I digress, this book is funny, smart, generously ambiguous and devoid of real responsibility. I wish you'd been my mummy BC, I'd have grown up with a different and much more interesting range of mental problems than I have now.

Well done you!

P.S. You might spot me at your gigs - I am wearing the 'I am not a man I am a human' T shirt.

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