I watched season 1 of Girls a couple years ago and was compelled to finish the show on time for when this book came out. As a woman interested in filmmaking, I think Lena is quite underrated as a creative force so I read her books to get some more insight into her life.

I could not get through Not That Kind of GIrl, but I was hooked on Famesick from the first chapter, where she tells an anecdote about a film festival that turns into how she linked up with the Safdie brothers. Alongside behind-the-scenes info on making Girls, there's a lot of details on celebrity life, her relationship with Ant Jackinoff when they were both reaching their peak fame and stuff like that. As the title suggests, Famesick isn't a breezy celebrity memoir read because of Dunham's details of her health struggles and addictions. The chapter where she got her uterus removed made me cry it was so disturbing and emotionally written. There's a lot of jumping around in time which was sometimes difficult to keep track of, but Lena's conversational writing style makes up for it.

However, the part where she discusses her main controversy (the incident with her sibling) was hard to get through. She says the story with her sibling is a story her family likes to tell a lot at dinner parties which is completely insane and revealing of some aspects of her family dynamics. It's not up to me to litigate these things but it was immensely uncomfortable to read about.