a wholly engaging and well written autobiography that I picked up on a whim

pros:
- the writing is clear, fun and includes lots of words I didn't know. it bounces along and jumps from topic to topic in a way that's fun. 
- it was very interesting to learn more about Judaism and margoyles' experience of it, her family and her upbringing. for a majority of it, she is more informative than anything and quite moving at times
- I enjoyed all her stories and found her mixture of totally blunt honesty and older person views interesting
- her politics align very much with mine and it was good to hear her views on Israel and Palestine - the book was published in 2021, so she was unfortunately before her time in predicting the war between them.
- i liked hearing her views on fatness, death, beauty and aging, among other not talked about topics. she is wonderfully open about being queer and I liked how she never hid that she'd had relations with men and didnt let loving two men in her life make her any less of a lesbian. 

 cons:
- at times, I didn't agree with her black and white view, she stresses being kind (quite rightly) but is judgemental against people who use grammar differently, against pop music, Harry Potter fans (fair enough with j k Rowling but she just said the fans were too old for it, despite admitting she'd never seen the films or read the books), and also doesn't believe in coming out to people 'who cant cope with it'. often her stories involved saying something potentially pretty hurtful to someone because of her lack of filter which didnt seem kind. 
- the topic jumps were also a bit jarring at times and I felt the first half had much more flow than the second.
- I also got bored when she spoke for a long time about people and scenes, big lists of films and people I had never heard of, but that's probably my age. 

overall, I found her interesting and charming and enjoyed learning about her life.