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My Review:Title: We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story
Author: Josh Sundquist
Published by: Hachette Audio
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Josh Sundquist
Length: 6 hours and 4 minutes
Genres: Humor, Non-fiction, Autobiography, Memoir
Source: Libby
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2022 Audiobook Challenge, Lenoreo's 2022 Backlist Reader Challenge, Lenoreo's 2022 Diversity Reading Challenge, Lenoreo's 2022 Netgalley and Edelweiss Challenge
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My rating:
Blurb:A bright, poignant, and deeply funny autobiographical account of coming of age as an amputee cancer survivor, from Josh Sundquist: Paralympic ski racer, YouTube star, and motivational speaker.
Josh Sundquist only ever had one girlfriend.
For twenty-three hours.
In eighth grade.Why was Josh still single? To find out, he tracked down the girls he had tried to date and asked them straight up: What went wrong?
The results of Josh's semiscientific, wholly hilarious investigation are captured here. From a disastrous Putt-Putt date involving a backward prosthetic foot, to his introduction to CFD (Close Fast Dancing), to a misguided "grand gesture" at a Miss America pageant, this story is about looking for love--or at least a girlfriend--in all the wrong places.
3.5 stars — I definitely laughed out loud, and even groaned on more than one occasion.
Josh does a pretty good job of narrating the book himself, which makes sense since he’s a motivational speaker…it would likely give him a leg up. Pun unintended, but still funny.
I definitely enjoyed his earlier stories, and it totally brought back some of those insecurities of middle and high school. I could definitely see the mistakes he was making, but they made sense for that stage of life. I think it got a bit harder to witness his awkwardness come college. I had a harder time in the “Lily” section, especially with the Stella thing. He did eventually get the point, and honestly it all felt very true…but…I don’t know, something felt not as nice about it. Which I guess was the point in some ways. He was still awaiting his epiphany.
While the Christianity was by no means in your face, it’s obviously a factor in his life. I think it’s still accessible to anyone though.
I appreciated all that I learned about his disability, and how it affected his day to day. But I really appreciated seeing him learn how it had affected him in unintended ways.
Basically, I genuinely became worried he wasn’t going to understand his own behaviors, but he did. I’m just not sure he saw all of what I wanted him to see. Which probably doesn’t make sense, and really is more about me than him.
I hate to admit this, but I didn’t know anything about this author and I read (and loved) his Love and First Sight. I don’t know that I want to read/listen to this book since it didn’t seem like a hit, but I learned a little from your review.