Life Will Be the Death of Me - Chelsea Handler

Life Will Be the Death of Me

By Chelsea Handler

  • Release Date: 2019-04-09
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 1,011 Ratings

Description

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This will be one of your favorite books of all time. Through her intensely vulnerable, honest, and hilarious reflections, Chelsea shows us more than just her insides. She shows us ourselves.”—Amy Schumer
 
Don’t miss Chelsea Handler’s new Netflix stand-up special, Revolution, now streaming!
 
In the wake of President Donald Trump’s election, feeling that her country—her life—has become unrecognizable, Chelsea Handler has an awakening. Fed up with the privileged bubble she’s lived in, she decides it’s time to make some changes.
 
She embarks on a year of self-sufficiency and goes into therapy, prepared to do the heavy lifting required to make sense of a childhood that ended abruptly with the death of her brother. She meets her match in an earnest, nerdy shrink who dissects her anger and gets her to confront her fear of intimacy. Out in the world, she channels her outrage into social action and finds her voice as an advocate for change. With the love and support of an eccentric cast of friends, assistants, family members (alive and dead), and a pair of emotionally withholding rescue dogs, Chelsea digs deep into the trauma that shaped her inimitable worldview and unearths some glittering truths that light up the road ahead. 
 
Thrillingly honest and insightful, Chelsea Handler’s darkly comic memoir is also a clever and sly work of inspiration that gets us to ask ourselves what really matters in our own lives.

Reviews

  • Another excellent book

    5
    By ashleytmaxwell
    Picked this up expecting to like it and ended up loving it.
  • Life will be the death of me

    5
    By paige.curran
    Every book I read of hers I think it’s my favorite until I read the next. I never wanted this book to end, I feel like I actually grew as a person reading that book, I laughed, I cried, laughed some more. It was everything my soul needed
  • Very moving, different from her other books but in a nice way

    5
    By KatieKdub
    Chelsea really opened up in this book. I was expecting it to laugh through the entire book; instead I found another way in which I connect with her. She always seems so in touch with her feelings/opinions, and in this book she admitted that she was not, and got professional help (which she had always been against). I loved her sincerity.
  • Just plain amazing!

    5
    By GabiP
    No words.... this book was everything I wanted to read for a while. I laughed, cried, felt humbled, an awake of consciousness and empowerment. Thank you Chelsea!
  • Her best yet

    5
    By DrawSomeMe!
    The only thing better than a really funny Chelsea Handler read is a really funny Chelsea Handler read that makes you see things a little differently about yourself and the world around you by the time you’ve gotten to the last page. I have a feeling this book will speak to many people in a different voice than all her others. Love love loves it.
  • My Review:

    5
    By CMarCass
    I have read all of Chelsea Handler’s Books, and this by far was the best! All books, I have read in the past made me laugh! I enjoyed reading and learning about her life, and grew to love her! I began watching her show Chelsea Lately, and she always gave me some great laughs! However, with this book I laughed and cried and learned about myself throughout the entire book. I truly enjoyed this, and I want to thank Chelsea Handler for putting her story out there for the world to read! Absolutely wonderful!
  • So great

    5
    By Iluvbug1
    Hilarious, sad, thought provoking. So much more than I expected from her, as I just didn’t know a lot about her. Such a fan now.
  • All of the yes’s

    5
    By Nm24
    Chelsea can do no wrong in my book. This book made me laugh, cry, and have to google words I didn’t know, but most importantly it made me think. It made me think about how I treat myself and others and how I can work on creating positivity in every aspect of my life one less sarcastic comment at a time. Thank you, Chelsea.
  • Outstanding

    5
    By raerae1978
    Outstanding read! Her journey is outlined with heart and soul. Loved the book. The Trumpdards on here writing bad reviews because their feelings are hurt...... byeeeeee.
  • Brava

    5
    By iericab
    This is a must read! Chelsea, I’m so proud of this work of yours. I’m so happy you finally let your guard down.