Celeste Barber's Challenge Accepted is part memoir, part comedy routine, part advice manual. Simply read this book as a distraction to the seriousness of life.
Celeste is seriously famous, appealing to the young female demographic as she recreates celebrities in her Insta posts.
Celeste has said in one of her many interviews, her motivation was to release memoir at young age and to be known for something other than Insta, something tangible, and something that paid the bills. Has she pulled this off?
Hard to believe at the beginning of this year she was fund raising for the bushfire victims and then taken to court to see how the money raised should distributed. Well, lucky she has a sense of humour.
Celeste is now on commercial television promoting eBooks.
Parodying celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, her images are dotted throughout the chapters. There are awkward poses expressing just good old Aussie humour exposing the real nature of well-known celebrities privileged lifestyles.
Challenge Accepted can be described as hilarious. However, don’t let the humour dilute the challenges she had to face. Celeste had learning difficulties, medical issues and experienced bullying and managed to navigate through these to be where she is now.
Interesting side note; Celeste found the bully was now identifying as a victim. Celeste clearly chooses to point this out whilst similarly bagging a less than supportive teacher.
Celeste struggled and now is happily married coping with an extended family of four. She points out at every opportunity she has an amazingly handsome husband.
A comfortable read or uncomfortable light read, as she tends to use the Aussie vernacular and explicit language. She covers all manner of subjects. Yet another funny Aussie writer/comedian who will appeal to the middle-aged female reader, ‘not her chosen fanbase’ but nonetheless popular with this demographic.
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