Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded

by Hannah Hart

Overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Hannah Hart’s new book is a roaring, beautiful, and profoundly human account of an extraordinary life."—John Green 

"Hannah shares her truth with an honesty that is inspiring—one that makes me believe her when she says that it’s going to get better or that laughter is just around the corner or that you aren’t alone."—Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Let's Pretend This Never Happened and Furiously Happy 

Hannah Hart, wildly popular YouTube personality and author of the New York Times bestseller My Drunk Kitchen, is stirring up tales from her past with a collection of narrative essays about family, faith, love, sexuality, self-worth, friendship and fame.

Personal note:

Hello, my darlings! I am incredibly pleased to present Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded!

As a big fan of memoirs, I wanted to try my hand at writing about the events of my life that deserve a little more consideration than can be accomplished in 140-characters or a 6-minute vlog. Now on the cusp of turning 30, I'm ready to expose some parts of my life that I haven't shared before. Before, it was all about privacy, process and time. And now the time has come! I’m ready to put myself out there, for you.  

I'm a little nervous about all these vulnerable words going into the world, these tales about my love life, the wrestling I’ve done with faith, how I feel about sex and my family and myself. I’ve had a lot of trials, a lot of errors, but also a lot of passion. Here’s the thing—I've always found comfort in the stories shared by others, so I hope my stories, now that I feel ready to tell them, will bring you some comfort too.

And when you read this book please remember: Buffering is just the time it takes to process.

Enjoy!

Love,

Hannah

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441719201
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	10/18/2016
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 5.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Hannah Hart is an author, digital influencer, philanthropist, actress, and producer. She is the New York Times bestselling author of My Drunk Kitchen, and the creator and star of the popular and award-winning YouTube series My Drunk Kitchen. Named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30, Hannah has led a discussion about millennial engagement with President Obama at the White House, and she is founder of the Have a Hart Day initiative, which encourages young leaders to volunteer in their communities. She has coproduced and starred in three films: the independent comedy Camp Takota with fellow YouTubers Grace Helbig and Mamrie Hart, the reboot of 70’s cult classic Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, and the comedy film Dirty30. Hannah lives in Los Angeles and is starting to like it there.

Table of Contents

Foreword Jenny Lawson viii

Trigger Warning x

Heirloom 1

Original Kin 17

My Drunk Kitchen 33

Hello, Harto? 47

That Summer Feeling 61

Fear and Ecstasy 75

Casual Travel Asshole 91

Keepsake 107

Shadowboxer 121

Body Language 147

Hocus Focus 159

No Judging 171

Film This Moment 185

(Un)Packing a Punch 195

Nest 209

Fables 229

Epilogue 245

Read This Too 250

Afterword 254

Acknowledgments 259

Editorial Reviews

Hannah Hart, a young YouTube sensation, narrates her own stories, taking on topics ranging from faith to sexuality, mental illness, and Internet stardom. Hart’s authentic narration, as well as Judy Young's reading of the foreword, is instantly relatable. Even when she’s sharing the difficult parts of her journey, she comes across as hopeful. There’s plenty of humor in her story as she finds fame through her YouTube show, “My Drunk Kitchen.” One of the more serious themes of her story revolves around her mother's mental illness and how Hart comes to terms with it. BUFFERING is a book one should listen to, not read. It’s about vulnerability and authenticity, and so much of that is due to Hart’s own voice. A.G.M. 2017 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine

FEBRUARY 2017 - AudioFile

10/17/2016
In her debut memoir, comedian Hart, host of the YouTube show My Drunk Kitchen, delves deep into her past, sharing her experiences with family, mental illness, sexuality, friendship, and love. Although she is currently living the life of a public figure, a fact that she teasingly points out throughout the piece, Hart focuses on her past; its complexities, juxtapositions, and contradictions make up the bulk of her entertaining and honest story. Hart exposes the hardest parts of her life: being gay with a Jehovah’s Witness father, growing up poor with a schizophrenic mother. These and other figures of her life could be easily demonized, but Hart allows them to emerge as complicated characters. Her paranoid mother is also intelligent, kind, gentle, and forgiving, and values family and art. Her homophobic and single-minded father gave her good home by certain standards, clean and with a fridge full of food. The topics are grim, but there is kindness in her story, and, most significantly, humor. Fans will be pleased that other stars such as comedian Grace Helbig make guest appearances, and, like a true role model, Hart uses her platform to raise awareness of the shortcomings of the current U.S. medical system in treating mental health. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Hannah Hart’s new book is a roaring, beautiful, and profoundly human account of an extraordinary life.” — John Green

“Hannah shares her truth with an honesty that is inspiring - one that makes me believe her when she says that it’s going to get better or that laughter is just around the corner or that you aren’t alone.” — Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Let's Pretend This Never Happened and Furiously Happy

From the Publisher

By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Hannah Hart’s new book is a roaring, beautiful, and profoundly human account of an extraordinary life.

John Green

Hannah shares her truth with an honesty that is inspiring - one that makes me believe her when she says that it’s going to get better or that laughter is just around the corner or that you aren’t alone.

Jenny Lawson

05/15/2016
A YouTube star whose channel has more than 2.4 million subscribers and whose social media presence roars—more than a million folks each turn to her on Twitter and Instagram—Hart is also the author of the New York Times best-selling My Drunk Kitchen. Here she thumbs through old journals to offer narrative essays that capture her life and her views on family, friendship, love, sexuality, and self. With a 125,000-copy first printing.

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