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A review by theartsybookwitch
Is It Hot in Here (Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)? by Zach Zimmerman
3.5
Zach Zimmerman bringing back comedy essays in his own way.
I really wanted to like this, but most of the humor just fell flat to me. This was my first by Zimmerman, so I think a huge part of it, is just me. The writing style felt choppy, and honestly would have been better as blog posts, or even just reframed better.
I did enjoy the hard hitting parts of his essays; the death of his friend, the perspective his mom went through during Covid, and about his father.
I didn't grow up in a religious household, so I will never relate to the religous trauma that comes surrounding the forces of coming out, and the like. And that's ok.
Shoutout for him including Dunkin in his acknowledgements, that's a whole mood. *sips my Dunkin iced coffee*
Thank you to NetGalley, Zach Zimmerman and Chronicle Books LLC.
representation // Zach Zimmerman is gay, multiple people mentioned are queer
tw // mentions of homophobia, transphobia/trans erasure, religious bigotry, body-shaming, infidelity, break-ups
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I really wanted to like this, but most of the humor just fell flat to me. This was my first by Zimmerman, so I think a huge part of it, is just me. The writing style felt choppy, and honestly would have been better as blog posts, or even just reframed better.
I did enjoy the hard hitting parts of his essays; the death of his friend, the perspective his mom went through during Covid, and about his father.
I didn't grow up in a religious household, so I will never relate to the religous trauma that comes surrounding the forces of coming out, and the like. And that's ok.
Shoutout for him including Dunkin in his acknowledgements, that's a whole mood. *sips my Dunkin iced coffee*
Thank you to NetGalley, Zach Zimmerman and Chronicle Books LLC.
representation // Zach Zimmerman is gay, multiple people mentioned are queer
tw // mentions of homophobia, transphobia/trans erasure, religious bigotry, body-shaming, infidelity, break-ups
<img src="http://i68.tinypic.com/2rpr7nl.jpg" alt="NetGalley Review" width="150">