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Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets and Advice for Living Your Best Life
Ali Wong
3.83 AVERAGE
4.13k reviews for:
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets and Advice for Living Your Best Life
Ali Wong
3.83 AVERAGE
Pretty raunchy which I guess is on brand, but I found much of it interesting and entertaining. I particularly appreciated the parts regarding pregnancy/miscarriage/childbirth, as well as the bits about her marriage and her husband's afterword. I was quite sad to learn they had divorced and wondered how much of this book she still stands by in that regard.
看stand-up comedy后没多久就了解到Ali Wong，没太多知道她的背景，Asian American这一个标签是我的唯一印象。后来了解到老公是哈佛毕业，当下也有额外的感叹，真的是要足够热爱才能在怀孕和不缺钱的情况下继续演出。
这本书以信件的方式和typical Ali的口吻向两个女儿给予一些过来人的经验，更多地了解到她的家庭和过去的经历。文中也有提到女性comedian的一些不便，还有亚裔在好莱坞的underrepresentation。
书中还介绍了岳父之前的华丽履历，有从商背景，还有演出和采访，也比较能够解释丈夫Justin现在退居家庭主夫其实也是有受原生家庭影响，自己母亲的默默付出，以及习惯了爸爸使更多的被“共享“。在文末，丈夫还给女儿们也写了一封信，提了各种建议，要去习惯母亲是一个”名人“，真的能够感受到他对妻子和女儿的热爱。不得不感叹，这么一对比，确实Justin的辞藻更华丽一些，当然Ali也是名校毕业，想法还是能给我一些收获的！
这本书以信件的方式和typical Ali的口吻向两个女儿给予一些过来人的经验，更多地了解到她的家庭和过去的经历。文中也有提到女性comedian的一些不便，还有亚裔在好莱坞的underrepresentation。
Spoiler
最开始看Netflix特辑的时候还是有一点被她的尺度吓到的，直到书中提到一开始她的尺度更大…而且岳父岳母也去看过她的show，再次佩服这两对夫妻的勇气。书中还介绍了岳父之前的华丽履历，有从商背景，还有演出和采访，也比较能够解释丈夫Justin现在退居家庭主夫其实也是有受原生家庭影响，自己母亲的默默付出，以及习惯了爸爸使更多的被“共享“。在文末，丈夫还给女儿们也写了一封信，提了各种建议，要去习惯母亲是一个”名人“，真的能够感受到他对妻子和女儿的热爱。不得不感叹，这么一对比，确实Justin的辞藻更华丽一些，当然Ali也是名校毕业，想法还是能给我一些收获的！
I’ve known of Ali Wong and saw her in Always Be My Maybe but I never really knew anything about her. So it was nice to get to know her through this book which is an open letter to her daughters. I found it raunchy, honest, and illuminating. I also very much liked the afterword which was written by her then husband. It’s all very cute - 3 stars!
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While I appreciated and related to some of the cultural experiences she shared -- the tension around having "weird" food to Americans as a child, only to have those same foods be considered delicacies by white American food critics years later, the discussion around shoes in the house, and ways in which she tried to bridge cultural gaps (study abroad, language) -- I found her humor really unpalitable. The way that she supported Zionists like Jerry Sienfeld and his family, the way she talked about unhoused people/homelessness, among other things, really rubbed me the wrong way. I know there's a license for creativity in comedy, and nothing should be taken too seriously, but her approach seemed so out of touch, crude, and ulimately very unfunny. Maybe for others, but this book was way too cringe/icky for me.
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Pregnancy
Moderate: Miscarriage
I think it’s important to note that you SHOULD NOT read this book until AFTER you have watched one of Ali Wong’s stand up specials and you make sure you appreciate her sense of humor. If you don’t, you’re going to be one of these people shocked by her raunchy style and therefore rating this book poorly. That being said, if you think she’s as hilarious as I do, you’ll love this book! It’s written to her daughters (when they grow up) and it’s full of all sorts of hilarious advice about everything from how to plan your wedding to how to decide which Asian restaurants to avoid (broken down by cuisine, of course). It also touches on sensitive subjects and gets a little deep. Overall a very enjoyable, easy read (or listen- love a good audiobook read by the author!)
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Parts of it were HILARIOUS, and parts ran on. The end there is a letter from her husbands perspective which is good! Fun read.