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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
emotional
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reflective
medium-paced
emotional
funny
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reflective
medium-paced
About a 3.5, really. Some of the essays here are misses, and they do feel like earlier work than her second collection, We are Never Meeting in Real Life. I did crack up at the essay where she lied to her class that she was married with a bunch of sons. Also, the essay about taking care of her mother was wonderful. If you really loved WANMIRL, pick this up and skim through it, and if you haven't read WANMIRL, start there.
I love Irby's style, writing, and stories. "Meaty" is quite good, but I loved the reflective stories and humor in "We Are Never Meeting In Real Life" SO much that this one didn't do it for me quite as hard. Still love Irby though!!
Couldn't finish the last few. Started out strong and funny, got repetitive. Also many of the essays cannot be read while eating, be forewarned.
Samantha Irby is an acquired taste for some but I absolutely adore her. I’ve read all of her books, accidentally out of order. Some of the discussions of dieting and shoulds of fat people makes me sad (as a fat bitch). But I love her for being real, and wtf am I doing here if not to listen to her interior dialogue. And the shoulds are more real than anything sometimes for fatties. Her mildly monotone delivery in the audiobook adds so much personality to her stories. I wouldn’t have it any other way. Xo Sam ily.
Her last book was great. This book was such a bust. All of the recipes were pointless, took up a bunch of space and weren’t funny even though they tried to be. And considering how much she speaks about her butthole, she should have made it funny instead of just kind of uncomfortable. This book was more gross than funny. Her last book was a lot more enjoyable, this book was just a bit of a mess.
