Tchotchkes and their Fucked-Up Thoughts is a hilarious introspection on the minds of tchotchkes that you may have sitting around your house such as Russian matryoshka dolls and your random garden gnome. It's a funny, entertaining, and creative illustrative book.

This made me laugh. It is so silly and adorable. I like the one about the plants more but this was fun too.

I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This book has a fun coffee table/waiting room vibe. The irreverent tone adds to the quirkiness of the book, but sometimes it seems a bit over done.
Overall, this would be a great gift for that friend who likes things a little off kilter.


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This book was so weird and funny and dumb, I loved it. Definitely an odd one, not for everybody, but if you've ever thought to yourself, what would my Russian nesting doll say if she could speak. this one is for you. Similar vibes to the podcast Everything Is Alive.

Arc Review:
Overall Rating: 3 Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️

This was a really weird and quirky book yet oddly charming and funny.
It just shares what your little tchotchkes, trinkets, knickknacks, odds and ends might just be thinking giving them an inner monologue along with there own astrological signs.
This would make a cute gift or just something to have on your coffee table.

Thank you NetGalley

This was a fun, entertaining and quick read. The thoughts of each knickknack were clever and fitting and some made me laugh out loud. I’m not sure who this book is for or if I would recommend it to friends, but I enjoyed it.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

For people who love a funny book with quick quips, this one should be a hit. It's very cleverly done, and a lot of things are included that I would have never put into the tchotchkes category but am now realizing they totally are.

Who knew my Russian nesting dolls had so much angst? A good gift for your most trinket-pilled friend.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC of this book. This book is little but is packed with laughs. Inanimate objects telling it like it is, what more could you want from a book of tchotchkes? My favourites were the ceramic hummel figurine, the lava lamp and the souvenir spoon. Best line of the book, "May all your teeth fall out, except one, so you can still have a toothache" - Menorah. Such a fun book.

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.