“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 […]
Earn Your Confidence
I am at best unsure of how I feel about Mindy Kaling. I detested her character on The Office – Kelly Kapoor drove me nuts. I did love some of the episodes she scripted for The Office, and The Mindy Project is some of my favorite television right now, but not always because of Kaling herself. Sometimes her brand of humor, or the humor she surrounds herself with, just don’t work for me. I can really appreciate a show without always finding it funny. And […]
Dear Mindy Kaling: Please write a romantic comedy. Okay, thanks, bye.
This isn’t going to be my best review ever. Since last night I’ve been fighting exhaustion, and I think I might have a sinus infection, but I wanted to get this review done within 24 hours of finishing because I know that I will forget what I want to say about it if I wait any longer than that. First, I liked this book more than her first one, although I do admit my memory of that one is a bit squidgy. From what I […]
Mindy Kaling is my soup snake
I finished Why Not Me in less than 18 hours (eight of which I was sleeping) which is probably why my husband would have preferred me checking out Miss Kaling’s latest from the local library but he was clearly delusional if I was waiting for 32 other people to finish first. Besides I already have my own waitlist forming between friends and family members so it was clearly a must-buy. I have avoided reading the other reviews of Why Not Me because I wanted to […]
“Entitlement in itself isn’t so bad. Entitlement is simply the belief that you deserve something.”
Back in 2012, before the husband and I had spent a few weeks of the summer catching up on what was then available of the American version of The Office, I read Mindy Kaling’s first book Is Everybody Hanging Out Without Me? and liked it, and her, a lot. Once Mindy Kaling got her own show, The Mindy Project, I even watched all of the first season and about half of the second season before I got distracted by other shows, reading and computer games. Any […]
But seriously, why not me?
Expectations for books are funny things. When you’ve read something by a author before, especially a memoir or essay collection, you think it’ll be in a similar vein. After all, you enjoyed the first one so much, you’re buying a second, right? You want to read things like the ones before–not exactly the same, of course, but maybe with the same tone or voice. In her second collection of personal essays, Why Not Me?, Kaling delivers that consistency, but adds something pretty important–feeling and heart.