When You Find Out the World is Against You audiobook

Wow! Davina read another memoir! Shocking, much? Not at all. You guys are probably sick of me reading all these memoirs, but guys, I honestly can't get enough!!! All this advice is changing my life and shaping who I am. I really loved this book. When I saw it in the library, I was like "whose Kelly Oxford?" Cuz TBH I have never heard of her before. But I wanted to read the book because 1. She has really nice hair 2. The title was hilarious. I mean, we have all realized that the world is against us, so who can actually say they don't relate to this book?? And I wasn't disappointed. Kelly Oxford is hilarious!! Her writing style makes you cry from laughter, and it's super captivating. You won't be able to put it down. She has such great stories!! She shares all her life experiences and it's especially great when you can relate to them. I love the fact that she's from Edmonton, it's people like her that make me so proud to be Canadian because she is super honest about how Canada is, and I love it!! Like how the teachers in Canada are so caring and go that extra mile to make you feel loved. And how Canada is always so unbearably cold but that doesn't stop us from doing anything because "Canadians like to live life on the edge." Or how we are good at punching because we don't have guns :P. I also liked her chapter about the differences between puppies and kids and how they are not similar at all and her explanation on why women drink so much wine >_

Kelly Oxford is funny in a self-deprecating way. You'll either love it or you'll hate it. Sure, she's privileged, but she knows she is, and this book doesn't pretend that it's not written from this context. Oxford's second memoir is an equal parts entertaining and uncomfortable, familiar and unfamiliar story about the things that make us feel alone and helpless in the world. It's a great story about what it's like to be an anxious person, and I'm sure there's a moment in her that each of us could see ourselves in. It's funny, and serious. A great isolation audio.

a perfect book for challenging times. reading it made me laugh out loud, but it also made me tear up. in short, Kelly Oxford is awesome, and so is her writing.

I was at the library and this book spoke to me on a very deep and personal level so I brought the book home with me.Seems like Kelly's brain operates on the same wavelength as my own. I very much enjoyed her memoir.Some Passages:"Kelly, remember the time we found a hyperventilating duck in the basement?"______Once, a guy in an old rusted Datsun pulled up and asked us if we had seen his lost puppy and I screamed, "I READ ABOUT THIS KIDNAPPER'S TRICK! GET OUT OF HERE!"______"Can I use your DEET?" I held up the can. "I'm allergic to mosquitos and they are everywhere out there."______(I realize quicksand isn't a natural disaster, but for children who grew up in the '80s, it was huge fear.)______God bless any child who sleeps with a hamster in their room; they must have terrible rodent-sound-fueled nightmares.______"I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOUR DEAD HAMSTER!"______"I hate macaroni and cheese, it smells like barf."

When you yourself have OCD and social anxiety, Kelly seems like your lifetime friend. This is a funny book (not LOL, however) that relates her embarrassing and humiliating moments. The stories are very discontinuous from entirely different periods in her lifetime, without any warning when you start a new chapter, so one must overcome that, and it doesn't take long. The best part of Kelly as a narrator is that she is brutally open and sacrifices her coolness for every embarrassing incident that comes along. It's a very honest book in that sense, and one never gets the idea that she thinks she's pretty great to have all these humiliations befall her.The chapter on her Twitter statement about improper sexual acts towards girls of every age, and the hundreds of replies she gets from women telling their own tales of assault, rape, and having to fend off inappropriate come-ons from unwanted males, is very disturbing. We still live in unevolved times and the patriarchy and rape culture are still reigning sexual expressions from the huge majority of males.It reminded me of the time I bought Maureen Dowd's book Are Men Necessary? at Costco and was followed almost entirely out of the store by a 20-something south Asian clerk who chided me for buying the book and saying the very idea of the title was an outrageous lie. I would suspect that he may have been one of the types outlined in the book and wasn't at all happy.

I really enjoyed this. My background knowledge of Kelly Oxford was limited to her tweets about Trump, but this book is a real joy that goes far beyond those tweets. The essays are hilarious, laugh-out-loud funny and Oxford's depiction of her own children and their expressions, attitudes and experiences are really great. One particular essay about grief and loss made me cry on a train- it hit very close to home. Of all the books of essays by women, talking about relationships, parenting, education, feminism and teenage nostalgia, Oxford's is the one I've liked best so far.

She is nuts, a bit obsessive, throw in some paranoia and strait forward. I'd like to hang out with Kelly. This is a funny, entertaining, light read. It's exactly what I expected and I completely enjoyed reading this book. It made me laugh and cringe at times. I'm glad I never had the opportunity to go to overnight camp!

4.5 - I’m still not entirely sure what it is that Kelly Oxford does for a living, but it really didn’t matter here. The writing is hilarious, relatable, and at times important. This was fantastic.

I liked this one better. Can’t wait for the next.

Kelly Oxford is smart, funny, and candid.I love that she also uses her platform to empower women.

Really enjoyed this collection of essays. There was a lot I could relate to- Edmonton, anxiety, humour and constant pop culture references. I think the essays about John Binder and #notokay touched me the most, although there were many moments that I could relate to.The Body Shop, yes!!

When You Find Out the World is Against You makes me think a lot about life because in reality Oxford speaks about the truths of what people go through. This book was engaging from beginning to end, and it is rare that a book catches my eye from the first page. After reading this book I couldn't help but follow Oxford on her social media. Even though Kelly Oxford is an introvert person, she is extremely fun and entertaining! I knew when I went to Barnes and Nobles to buy a book that this book would be the one, not only because the first page I read said, "This is a book is for anyone who has ever felt like the world is against them. In other words, this is a book for everyone. Glad you are here," but because the cover was very eye catching and those are my types of books. Talk about "Don't judge a book by it's cover"... I'm glad I got to be the judge of Oxford's hilarious memoir. I can't wait to read her first book called Everything is Perfect When You're a Liar.

I have no idea how I found out about this book. Maybe because I like memoirs by comedians? Or it was recommended for sufferers of anxiety? I did not know who this author was before listening to the audiobook. And I really didn't know why I was listening to this person's childhood dream of wanting to go to camp... But I pressed on and it all came together.I really liked hearing her stories from her perspective as a Canadian moving to LA. (To be fair, my experiences may have been somewhat similar having grown up in the Midwest.) I love immigrant perspectives, but I hadn't read one like this!And finally, the book ends with a really important message on sexual assault and illustrates how often it happens to young women and... young GIRLS. As a man, my husband doesn't completely understand the Me Too movement; but as I say to him, "We all have a story." (We all have at LEAST one.) I'm baffled that there are so many men that think that it is okay to touch women and girls whenever they please. And that we, as girls and women seem to instinctually (or know subliminally) that we should brush it off...

This is a fast easy read with some truly laugh out loud moments. I particularly enjoyed the stories from her childhood and could relate to them on many levels. Through her own stories Kelly Oxford leaves behind the idea of being the "perfect" daughter, wife , mother and you will quickly find yourself just a little more comfortable with sharing and laughing at your own absurdities ( and I mean that in the best kind of way). The final essay stands apart from the rest of the book and turns to the very sobering topic of sexual assault and her response to the Trump, "grab her pussy", comment. She proves very quickly that beneath the zaniness and all her quirkiness there is also substance. 3.5 out of 5

There were moments that really spoke to me so I'm bumping up to a 4. but the camp story felt very long."It's like how all the great stories are about orphans because all the really great stuff can only happen to kids when their parents aren't around.""I was worried that a shack this small could not hold the amount of insecurity I was hauling in with me.""I shut down when people I love have problems. I am a problem solver. If I can't help my walls go up and I feel sick. This is because deep down I need everything to be perfect. I need everything to be perfect because deep down I need to feel safe. Order is safety. When I couldn't help things get back in order I moved...""Maybe my shame was in trying to look pretty. I looked so pretty that a stranger felt he could touch me."

I was hooked from the beginning!! Both my daughters have anxiety issues and I seen a lot of them in this roller coaster ride of a book, really funny and what the heck just happened?? I enjoyed the book and found it to be entertaining and asked my daughters to ready it, who also both enjoyed it. Like I do with most all of my GoodReads wins I will be paying it forward by giving my win either to a friend or to a library for others to enjoy.