Elisabeth Saake’s “Tchotchkes and their F*cked-up Thoughts: The Messed-up minds of your Trinkets and Treasures” gives voices to the knick-knacks and collectibles around us. It imagines a scenario where these trinkets watch us and pass comments and judgements. Occasionally, they despair about the modern world and express their angst about the neglect they seem to suffer. The book is a quick but humorless read. However, the accompanying illustrations are delightful. Sometimes, the authorial voice is evident and intrudes into the reading process. The author seems to smirk at the reader, saying, “Notice how clever I am”. Personally, this feature was irritating. Nevertheless, this coffee table book has tried to capture the essence of certain cultures. This attempt is heroic but falls victim to hackneyed stereotypes.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this arc in exchange for my honest thoughts.

A funny, goofy, irreverent look into what the odds and ends in your house might be thinking.

I thought it was really great that each item had a blurb, how to care for it, and where to put it in the house (all in the pov of the item), and then it's given an astrological sign (except for a couple where it doesn't apply. Ex: a rock's sign is just "rock")

I enjoyed some of the jokes, but a lot of them just didn't quite land for me.

Overall a cute, fun coffee table book.

This little book would make the perfect coffee table book. It is funny and relatable. Many of these tchotchkes are owned by the majority of the population. I love how this book gives them a small piece of a personality.

A cute little tongue in cheek book about what your various tchotchkes must think of you and each other. The illustrations and descriptions were fun. I’m not sure who this book is for but it was still a fun read.

A unique and quirky book, filled with interesting tchotchkes and what they are thinking. A nice, lighthearted book to pick up and piut down as needed.

This was a fun book that will make a great coffee table book or a gift for that friend who likes to collect all sorts of Knickknacks and curios. It even has suggests for potential gifts of collectibles for people based on their Sun signs. All in all, a fun conversation piece.

A hilarious and quirky take on the hidden lives of your trinkets, this book offers dark humor and biting commentary on over 50 collectibles. The illustrations are vibrant, and the sarcastic voices of each item will have you laughing out loud—though it’s more for quick, fun entertainment than anything deeply profound.

Cute and funny and tongue-in-cheek this book. If our knickknacks (tchotchkes) could talk, after being witness to so much of our lives. Hahaha.

This is the perfect book to brighten someone’s day and get a laugh out of them. I brought it with me when I was visiting a friend recovering from surgery and we had to put it away because it was making us laugh too much. We’ll both be buying a copy when it’s released and when it won’t literally pop a stitch for her to get through it.

Love how all the little items are given personalities. They’re definitely items you can find around your own house too, I definitely have one or two of them myself. The book is a really quick read and would make a great gift. I definitely recommend.

The idea and theme of this book was really interesting, and I thought the personalities given to all of the tchotchkes were really funny, and some of them seemed pretty spot on.

A pretty simple premise, which takes your average house hold Knick-knack (think fridge magnets, lucky cats, lava lamps, and ornate mirrors) and gives them a star sign and a (usually quite cheeky) thought to quip.

Honestly, this is a fine little gift book but - that’s the extent of it. Something you might buy for a friend, or family member, who will have a chuckle at it, and then just let it sit on their shelf to get dusty - I wonder what this book would have to say about that.

Thank you to the publishers, and Netgalley, for the copy to review.

This is the exact kind of book I would put in a gifting basket for my cheeky friends that love thrifting. Loved the details assigning astrology signs, care directions, and where to place in the home! I chucked and grinned through this entire delight of a book.

Dr. Doolittle, but make it tchotchkes and knick knacks with an R-rating.

The result? A laugh-out-loud book that needs to be a feature of your bookshelf and/or coffee table (two copies mean two times the hilarity in your home).

Have you ever wondered what your mirror or teacup set actually thinks about you? Wonder no more with this collection of astute and spot-on probably observations from your favourite keepsakes.

I laughed a lot during my reading of this book and already have two instances in mind where I will be buying this book for a friend.

The Mull Doll and Mirror observations particularly need to be framed for my walls.

Thank you to NetGalley and The Collective Book Studio for the opportunity to read this book for free in exchange for my honest review.

A very different kind of book did know some of those articles even existed. It was a fun kinda book and now I wonder what all the items in my showcase must be talk and grumbling about.🤪😜🤣🤣🤣

This book will make you smile.
You will also look at your collectibles and those of others with a fresh view and a smirk.
Light hearted and fun.

Seems like it could be a cute gift in theory! Some of the cultural comments sway towards incentive so do with that what you will!

A weird gift book-styled affair, that takes a simple image of a bit of household tat – a fridge magnet, a vintage tea cup and saucer duo, a dream-catcher – and gives them a voice. Well, I say voice – it's much more like three or four sentences of crabbiness and/or sarcasm, a response to the "how to handle" and "where to place in the home" prompts, and that's it. Oh, and it also gives them all a star-sign. Just because. But boy there was no comedy, no novelty (despite some of the doodads being best described as a novelty something) and no purpose. I could barely see this working as a 'see once, scroll past, forget within seconds' online entity – as a book it's a firm no.

This is a cute little gift book, almost a gag gift. The objects express their thoughts, which are more absurd than messed up. I did like the categories, which made it funnier.
Thanks to NetGalley for letting me read this

This was a cute, humorous book. Probably fun as a gift book, it's quick and funny, but not big on substance. Not sure that I can picture a situation where I might recommend this to a reader, though.

Want to thank Netgalley and publishers for giving me the chance to read this book.

Very lighthearted, fun to read, pretty quickly finishable. I had a good smile here and there, it's good to relax. Nothing world-altering though. I imagine it might be a good gift for someone who has a lots of knick-knacks.