Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones

 

Title:  Leslie F*cking Jones

Author:  Leslie Jones

Narrated by:  Leslie Jones

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Length: Approximately 16 hours and 32 minutes

Source: Checked out with Libby through the Kewaunee Public Library.  Thank-you!

 What is your favorite funny book, audiobook, or show?  I still enjoy Saturday Night Life skits, especially weekend updates.  I loved it when Leslie Jones was on SNL and I thought she was hilarious.  I saw that Leslie F*cking Jones was nominated for a Goodreads award in humor and I kept seeing great reviews of the audiobook, so I thought it was time to listen to this audiobook myself.

My thoughts on the audiobook:

·       I LOVED that Leslie Jones narrated this audiobook herself.  She was a joy to listen to.

·       This audiobook was very emotional.  Leslie Jones laughed but was also brought to tears through the remembrances of her own experiences. 

·       I enjoyed Jones’s details of playing basketball at the high school and college level, and then eventually coaching.

·       I loved that she had the dream of being a comic and she kept working towards her dream.

·       She was real and had moments of “real talk” about decisions she made.

·       Jones swears a lot, which is just how she talks.  If you don’t like to hear lots of swearing, this is not the book for you.

·       It feels like a personal talk with Jones at times addressing the audience.  At times it seemed like she was carrying on a conversation and not really reading what she had written.  I liked that.

·       I think this book should really be read as an audiobook versus the physical book, it was such a great audiobook. 

·       In the epilogue, Jones ends with plans for her own funeral, and they are as hilarious as you would imagine.

Leslie F*cking Jones was a funny audiobook and a joy to listen to, I was sad when this audiobook ended.