If you missed this sale last year, the ebook "Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere" by comedian Maria Bamford is again $1.99
at Amazon [amazon.com] on Kindle .
It's also $1.99 at:
Google Play Books [google.com]
Barnes & Noble Nook books [barnesandnoble.com]
Description:
From "weird, scary, ingenious" (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, an instant New York Times bestselling, brutally honest, and "laugh-out-loud funny" (Jennette McCurdy, #1 New York Times bestselling author) memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems—from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, to Richard Simmons, to 12-step programs.
Maria Bamford is a comedian's comedian (an outsider among outsiders) and has forever fought to find a place to belong. From struggling with an eating disorder as a child of the 1980s, to navigating a career in the arts (and medical debt and psychiatric institutionalization), she has tried just about every method possible to not only be a part of the world, but to want to be a part of it.
In Bamford's "trademark blend of disarming intimacy and dark whimsy" (Publishers Weekly), Sure, I'll Join Your Cult brings us on a quest to participate in something. With sincerity and transparency, she recounts every anonymous fellowship she has joined (including but not limited to: Debtors Anonymous, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, and Overeaters Anonymous), every hypomanic episode (from worrying about selling out under capitalism to enforcing union rules on her Netflix TV show set to protect her health), and every easy 1-to-3-step recipe for fudge in between.
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Also, sometimes I wanted a highlight of the text. I'd stop the audio, pull up the ebook, and highlight it, lol. I like to go back and read through highlighted areas sometimes (rather than have to "listen" through audio bookmarks), and since I can get a list of my own highlights in Goodreads for any given Kindle book, it's easy to call up and look through. There are several different ways to scroll your highlights of Kindle books.
For those who haven't tried swapping between reading/listening, if you get the ebook on Kindle and the Audible audio, they sync up, and you can easily go back and forth between the two formats.
But there are deals right now for Audible (ymmv). if you're eligible, there's a 3-month trial at .99 on Audible. I'm not eligible for that, but on the Audible page for this Bamford book, at the top of the page, it's offering me "get over 50% off for three months" - the actual price is $6.95 a month, you could stop after one month if you didn't want it for longer (if you get the offer).
When the ebook/audio I have aren't both from Amazon/Audible, and they don't sync up, I typically just finish a chapter before switching between audio and ebook to make it easy to find my place when I swap formats. Or, if I'm switching from audio to ebook mid-chapter, I'll use the ebook search function to find a word or phrase the author just said in the audiobook in order to find my spot. Note that borrowing the Kindle ebook from the library should sync up with the Audible version you own of the same book, but owning the kindle ebook won't sync with the non-audible version you borrow from the library.
I don't know of other vendors who do this, but my book shopping is mostly the library, amazon, and the local used bookstore.
I don't know of other vendors who do this, but my book shopping is mostly the library, amazon, and the local used bookstore.
AND it used to be that if the I got a library loan of a Kindle version of a book, I'd get the discount on the Audible version for "owning" the ebook, because the book was in my library, even as a loan. Not sure if they still do that, it seems like they don't anymore because I never see a discount when I have a Kindle ebook on loan anymore (the times I think to check the Audible rate, anyway, which I don't do for each book), but it's possible those books were ones that wouldn't offer a discount even if you had bought the Kindle version. My current kindle loan from the library shows the Audible version at $24.30!
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