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A review by jennifer
Is It Just Me? by Miranda Hart
4.0
Bought this at Heathrow because I am incapable of passing up a "buy one get one 1/2 off" deal at WH Smith and because Miranda's TV show is one of the few things that makes me laugh out loud. Felt slightly guilty for reading this instead of a "real" writer, like Jeanette Winterson, whose Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal I was already in the midst of reading at time of the Miranda purchase. (Incidentally, having just finished both books, I can report that Miranda's book could have just as easily been titled Why Be Normal When You Can Be Happy. They are rather nice, if odd, companion pieces.)
Anyway, it only took me to Chapter Two to realize I was going to like this book, and that comedy writing is as "real" as any other type:
[Miranda talking to her younger self] "...you'll settle for ironic dancing, which is really where you just dance to the finale of Grease, enthusiastically and badly, to whatever music is playing."
Yep, that's me.
Anyway, it only took me to Chapter Two to realize I was going to like this book, and that comedy writing is as "real" as any other type:
[Miranda talking to her younger self] "...you'll settle for ironic dancing, which is really where you just dance to the finale of Grease, enthusiastically and badly, to whatever music is playing."
Yep, that's me.