• This Will Only Hurt a Little

  • By: Busy Philipps
  • Narrated by: Busy Philipps
  • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (44 ratings)

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This Will Only Hurt a Little

By: Busy Philipps
Narrated by: Busy Philipps
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Publisher's summary

The New York Times bestseller

A memoir by the beloved comedic actress known for her roles on Freaks and Geeks, Dawson's Creek, and Cougartown who has become 'the breakout star on Instagram stories...imagine I Love Lucy mixed with a modern lifestyle guru' (New Yorker).

Busy Philipps's autobiographical book offers the same unfiltered and candid storytelling that her Instagram followers have come to know and love, from growing up in Scottsdale, Arizona and her painful and painfully funny teen years, to her life as a working actress, mother, and famous best friend.

Busy is the rare entertainer whose impressive arsenal of talents as an actress is equally matched by her storytelling ability, sense of humor, and sharp observations about life, love, and motherhood. Her conversational writing reminds us what we love about her on screens large and small. From film to television to Instagram, Busy delightfully showcases her wry humor and her willingness to bare it all.

'I've been waiting my whole life to write this book. I'm just so grateful someone asked. Otherwise, what was the point of any of it??'

©2018 Busy Philipps (P)2018 Hachette Audio UK

Critic reviews

"Busy is a legit writer with a voice as clear as a bell." (Tina Fey)

"Funny, refreshingly candid memoir about Hollywood, motherhood and BFFhood." (Cosmopolitan)

"Judy Blume meets Karl Ove Knausgaard meets one brave woman from Arizona." (Miranda July)

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Loved it, very entertaining

I wasn’t expecting to like this as much as i did. But it was really good.

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It hooked me...

what a book! Busy Phillips has a way of drawing you into her world. she is real and genuine and it's a story worth listening to!

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Was skeptical but pleasantly surprised

I think Busy is amazing but waited to read her memoir due to seeing some bad reviews and underestimating her writing talent. It turns out that I’m not the first to have made that mistake and I’m so happy I was so wrong! Her memoir was addictive, beautifully written, funny, heartbreaking and always intriguing. She really knows how to tell a good anecdote and her honestly and strong, bad-ass spirit really comes through in full force. I’m absolutely in awe of her fighting nature and found myself crying along with her as she shared really brutally intimate moments of her life. I’m sure she won’t read this but I hope this review gets others to at least read it too. Thank you for sharing bits of your life with us, it helped me from within a deep depression and that is fucking priceless. x

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Must listen

Busy reading the book is perfection. My heart would break along with hers when her voice wavered or you could hear her voice breaking. It was a moving book about coming of age and life and our expectations and the reality of all of that, surrounded by other people’s trauma.

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