This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch

The Joy of Loving Something - Anything - Like Your Life Depends On It

English language

Published Jan. 10, 2022 by Penguin Publishing Group.

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978-0-593-42191-8
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Why We Can't Sleep meets Furiously Happy in this hilarious, heartfelt memoir about one woman's midlife obsession with Benedict Cumberbatch, and the liberating power of reclaiming our passions as we age, whatever they may be.

Tabitha Carvan was a new mother, at home with two young children, when she fell for the actor Benedict Cumberbatch. You know the guy: strange name, alien face, made Sherlock so sexy that it became one of the most streamed shows in the world? The force of her fixation took everyone--especially Carvan herself--by surprise. But what she slowly realized was that her preoccupation was not about Benedict Cumberbatch at all, as dashing as he might be. It was about finally feeling passionate about something, anything, again at a point in her life when she had lost touch with her own identity and sense of self.

In This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch, Carvan …

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I learned a lot about Benedict Cumberbatch, but I learned even more about the author's journey in learning find joy in a world that is dead set on forcing women to abandon their interests, hobbies, and personalities to fit socially accepted norms.

This book felt uncomfortable at times, but the author did a good job of examining why certain things make people uncomfortable. Definitely a book that made me check my privilege as a cis-het man.

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