Tag: humour

Lee Ridley, AKA Lost Voice Guy – I’m Only In It For The Parking

There is a big question after reading this book, and I would love to be in on the discussions: will the audiobook for I’m Only In It For The Parking be performed by Adult Voice Graham (the voice of Lee Ridley’s electronic talker) or a Geordie actor? (His inner voice is Geordie.) Or a mixture of the two? (And why is it that Lee Ridley’s voice is, for us, such an important part of him – when he cannot speak?)

Lee Ridley is very funny indeed. Sections of this book had me chuckling out loud. Other sections deal with the … Read more...

Susan Calman – Cheer Up Love

If you like your memoirs about depression lightly done, without lots of heavy anguish, and laced with a few jokes and funny stories, then Cheer Up Love is for you. Which is not to say that it skirts the problems of depression – far from it. For Susan Calman has had a history of depression since childhood, including periods of self-harming. Her memoir is particularly useful for anyone who knows a depressed child or adolescent.

Inevitably this memoir deals with Calman’s childhood and the interaction of inheritance, up-bringing and school experiences, but this is not a learned discussion of the … Read more...