I am not blog-savvy, so i’d never heard of the author before, but i needed a nonfiction title to read for this month, and i really really needed something funny, so this seemed to be the perfect choice, and finding another funny lady-writer for the future would just be icing on the cake. I read this book because it was free, blurbed by jenny lawson, and it had a cat on the cover, thus combining three of my favorite things. Oooh, goodreads choice awards semifinalist for best humor book! what will happen? Thirteen questions to ask before getting married. Whether talking about how her difficult childhood has led to a problem in making "adult" budgets, explaining why she should be the new Bachelorette-she's "35-ish, but could easily pass for 60-something"-detailing a disastrous pilgrimage-slash-romantic-vacation to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes, sharing awkward sexual encounters, or dispensing advice on how to navigate friendships with former drinking buddies who are now suburban moms-hang in there for the Costco loot-she's as deft at poking fun at the ghosts of her past self as she is at capturing powerful emotional truths.ĭo you guys pay your fucking bills or what?. With We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., "bitches gotta eat" blogger and comedian Samantha Irby turns the serio-comic essay into an art form. Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire.
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