If you’re an Elyse Myers fan (or just enjoy the occasional video of hers that pops up in your feed), you’ll be glad to hear she recently released a book! She narrates the audiobook version, so I decided to give it a listen. Read on to find out what I thought.
The Summary
How does a raging introvert with crippling social anxiety become โthe Internetโs Best Friend,โ with 10 million social media followers? The answer: With radical and relatable candor. Elyse Myers is known and loved for sharing personal stories of the most uncomfortably awkward and painfully human moments of all time, paired with the kind of frank empathy that canโt be faked. Elyse knows that lifeโs extraordinary moments really do hide in plain sightโand fans and readers everywhere respond to her humor and authenticity.
In Thatโs a Great Question, Iโd Love to Tell You, Elyse shares a collection of personal stories and illustrations thatโs full of deeper storytelling and even more intimate reflections than seen on social media, including:
- Spending 7 Minutes in Heaven accidentally friend-zoning your crush
- Accidentally (thereโs that word again!) engaging the services of a French escort while on a semester abroad (Did she want company? Sure!)
- Moving from California to Australia to Texas to Nebraska to like (maybe even love!) herself
- How to Fold Hospital Corners in 10 EASY STEPS!โa practical guide and a rumination about…everything
- The โmeat cuteโ when she met her smoke show of a husband at a butcherโs counter in Australiaโand how she revealed herself to be an emotional runner
Plus stories involving bad dates and is-this-a-dates; the tempting yet futile urge to reinvent yourself, panic attacks and escape hatches, favorite pens and systems to use them, and loving and letting yourself be loved, preferably at the same time.
Thatโs a Great Question, Iโd Love to Tell You is moving, surprising, quirky, and smartโan ideal book for fans of Elyse Myers and perfectly imperfect humans everywhere.
My Review
I love Elyse Myers and her videos on social media. As a neurodivergent person myself, her stories resonate with me. I also experience awkward interactions and social anxiety faux pas on a regular basis, so her content is just so relatable.
This review, though, is about her book, Thatโs a Great Question, Iโd Love to Tell You, not her as a person. Specifically, it’s about the audiobook version, read by Elyse, herself.
When I saw that Elyse narrated her own audiobook, I knew I wanted to listen to it. Essays and memoirs on audiobook read by the author are some of my very favorite listens (for example, see Bomb Shelter, The River You Touch, and These Precious Days).
I also chose to listen to That’s a Great Question at regular speed โ I normally listen more around 1.3x. But for these, I wanted to hear Elyse’s stories just like she tells them on social media.
So, that’s what I did! And…I liked it. For the most part.
First of all, I think you’re more likely to enjoy this book if you go into it thinking it’s a collection of essays, not a memoir. There is some chronology to it in the telling of her love story with her husband, but the chapters aren’t really meant to read like a continuous story.
Also, know that Elyse did explore some art here with poetry and creative storytelling. I liked these interludes in the story, but I’ll admit, the one about folding hospital corners got a bit long, and there was another one that threw me for a little bit of a loop as well, but I don’t remember what it was at this point. I’m not much of a poetry/creative storytelling reader, unfortunately!
I did love the stories from Elyse’s childhood and young adulthood as she navigates life as a neurodivergent person, but doesn’t yet know that she’s neurodivergent. It was all of the awkwardness that makes her so endearing to me, and I liked getting to know her more via those stories from her personal life.
I do think it could have benefitted from a little more focus and a title that includes “essays” so the reader is more clear on what they’re getting. The essays are primarily about relationships and romantic faux pas, so maybe that could have been more of a focus point instead of the general “about her life” marketing that was used to describe the book.
I do also wish I could have seen the illustrations somehow with the audiobook version!
So, I mostly really enjoyed listening to this one, with a few small caveats. I’m giving it 4 stars.
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