I’m not sure how I stumbled across We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. I hadn’t heard of Samantha Irby or her blog, “Bitches Gotta Eat”, before picking up the book, but the title and adorably annoyed kitten on the cover called to my inner crank. And in this particular case, the essays delivered on the cover’s promise. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life tackles a broad range of topics from love, sex, family, pets, pain, the Bachelorette, money, and Civil War reenactments with a sharp […]
Does anyone else wonder if “Will” is Mindy’s babydaddy?
“Work hard, know your shit, show your shit, and then feel entitled. Listen to no one except the two smartest and kindest adults you know, and that doesn’t always mean your parents. If you do that, you will be fine.” After the joys of revisiting Amy Poehler’s memoir in audio-book form I sought out Mindy Kaling’s (actually I sought out Tina Fey’s but there was a waitlist- next time!) second memoir which was fun but I don’t feel like I missed anything extra charming by […]
That’s not funny, that’s tedious
… I wanted this to be better. Gene Siskel had a line about whether a movie was preferable to the equivalent amount of time spent staring at a blank wall. I seriously had to take breaks from this even though my phone was dying and I was pinned under a sleeping baby; my alternative was literally a blank wall and I had to think about it. I don’t want to complain too much about the recitation of the National Lampoon’s best bits in this book, […]
Ineffable
Ive been trying to read down the pile of unread books in my library, and this necessitated eating my literary vegetables, so to speak – the stuff that’s not fun or that I’ve put off for one reason or another until I forgot why I bought the damn thing to begin with – some of which weren’t even nutritious, to torture the metaphor. It was cake time, muffukkas. This was my eleventy billionth reading of this book and it never fails to make me smile. […]
Even Better Than The Three Amigos!
This delight of a book starts out with our heroine, 19 year-old Nayeli, realizing that her town needs men. Strong and brave men, specifically, as most of the adult males from the tiny Mexico town she lives in have left to seek their fortune in the USA. Nayeli’s town of Tres Camarones is under siege from opportunistic bandidos, and there is really no one around to defend the remaining townspeople. Plus, the young women are lonely! Inspired by a town cinema viewing of The Magnificent […]
A book for everyone
(Sidenote: In posting this review, I’m noticing that the Kindle version is just $2.99!) 4.5 stars. As a person in the 21st century who exists both in the real world and the internet world, I had a passing knowledge of who Lindy West was. I had mostly only encountered her work that went viral however, so I didn’t go into this book as a hardcore fangirl, just as an interested bystander. I think after reading this, I can probably be classified as a hardcore fangirl. […]
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