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Weird But Normal: Essays
by Mia Mercado
This is a perfectly cromulent book (probably a 2.5), another entry in the "Let's have a humor writer put together some autobiographical pieces and throw in some more 'general comedy' bits and call it a book." After reading some heavier fare, I was looking for a palate cleanser, and this did the job. As with other books in this genre, I wish she had nixed the more generic essays (addressing household items like they were women, defining clothing) and had delved in a bit more on some of the more personal topics. I wanted to know more about her job writing greeting cards (how is that not a comedy gold mine?) and growing up as half-Filipino in the Midwest, and her writing about women in the workplace was quite good. Going through her timeline of life on the Internet (screen names over the years) was pretty amusing to someone who was thankfully not an adolescent when she wrote her first blog. But I got frustrated at how she jumped around in time (discussing dating apps after mentioning her husband) and seemed to gloss over a bunch of topics that were ripe for discussion.
Goodreads says that 2 stars is "It was OK," and that was pretty much this book. Mercado can tell a story fairly well, but I just wish she focused on different things.
Goodreads says that 2 stars is "It was OK," and that was pretty much this book. Mercado can tell a story fairly well, but I just wish she focused on different things.