My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler - Reshelved Books

Hello Dewey Readers!

It's audiobook review time! So I started listening to Chelsea Handler's audiobook My Horizontal Life via Libby.  Libby is an audiobook app by Overdrive.  It allows you to access

millions of e-books and e-audiobooks on your device with the simple one-time input of your library card number.  

So to preface this review.  If you read our post Audiobooks vs. Print Books, you know that I have a further commute to work now which means that I'm listening to audiobooks when I don't feel like participating in solo car karaoke.  

But I have some rules to follow when it comes to choosing audiobooks:

1. They can be no longer than 6 hours (I can't commit to weeks of the same book)
2. They should be non-fiction read by the author (humor is a plus) 
3. If fiction, they have to be short, and are usually for my Read It & Eat book club at work

This book fit into categories 1 & 2, and added a bonus point because I frequent Handler's hometown.  

I'm not a fan of comedy, and I know that Handler can be a little risque, but I really enjoyed this book.  I liked Handler's voice, her tone of sarcasm, and how she used the unreliable narrator element in telling her stories cohesively throughout.  I thought the book was really well done, and that by listening to the audiobook instead of reading the print version I developed a connection to Handler that would have been otherwise missed.

So Dewey Readers, I leave you with a rating of 5 out of 5 Coffee Beans in a travel mug.

Until the next read!

~Jessica