Laugh out loud funny. So relatable even when my life is vastly different than the author’s.

2024: Listened to it this time. Still very funny and relatable.

Starting with the last book I read by Mindy Kaling, I decided that I wasn’t rating funny books high enough. Even though it’s not “literature” the skill of making your observations funny enough to make me laugh out loud should be rewarded with higher stars. Irby was delightfully honest and funny.

Samantha Irby is my forever fave and I just want to hug everything she's ever written.

The humor just didn't hit for me -- it felt like Irby was trying really hard to drag entertaining stories out of her relatively boring life. I wonder if her earlier books were better and she's run out of content? It felt like Irby gave herself writing prompts to get herself going and then never edited the pieces (for example: there's an entire chapter is a list where each sentence starts with "sure sex is fun, but..."). Several pieces relied heavily on timestamps to land the joke, which maybe wouldn't have annoyed me as much if I'd read this rather than listened to the audiobook. Finally (unrelated to the text) she doesn't vote????

Oh my god this book is so funny and insanely relatable even though I'm not all that similar to the author. I laughed out loud multiple times while reading this and read numerous passages to my husband because I was dying to share how good they were. I feel like Irby struck the right note of self-depreciation where we're laughing along with her but it doesn't turn into a pity party, but readers who aren't at all tolerant of that sort of humor (or basic body humor) probably wouldn't enjoy this. I, however, greatly enjoyed this book and am dying to read the rest of what Irby has written. She has exactly the kind of voice I'd love to hear more of.

I started reading it so fast because it made me laugh, but I had to battle myself not to read it too fast because I didn't want it to be over!