Thursday, June 14, 2018

Meaty by Samantha Irby: I am excited because I am thirty years old and I don't have a man in my life

I was scanning through NetGalley and saw a copy of Samantha Irby's earlier collection, Meaty available. And since I enjoyed We Are Never Meeting in Real Life so damn much I thought I'd see if I could get a copy of this. And a copy was granted, in exchange for an honest review.

I can't decide which of two books I like better. It's hard to say since really they're both similar. They're both collections of essays about her and her life. They're hilarious and vulgar and a times touching (did I tear up while reading one about her mother? MAYBE. Was it followed up not long after with an essay about diarrhea? MAAAYBE) 

She has essays about dating ("How to Get Your Disgusting Meat Carcass Ready for Some New, Hot Sex"), medical issues ("The Many Varieties of Hospital Broth"), family ("My Mother, My Daughter"), money ("I Should Have a Car with Power Windows By Now"), pop culture ("Elena Tyler: AKA Why I Can't Be Mad at Lena Dunham"). What I'm saying is Irby has range.  

And she's relatable. I mean, look at the way she talks about her Crohn's Disease
And I know a lot of things suck, and so many people are going through so many terrible things, but to me, in this goddamned moment, nothing is worse than this gross-ass shit disease. Yes, there are worse things, but since those things are not currently happening to me, this bullshit is the worst thing that has ever happened to anyone in the history of ever.
This is how I feel about any bad thing that happens to me, regardless of how serious. It's times like this you realize how truly connected we all are.

This book is hilarious. Thinking about it, I may like it better than WANMIRL. Maybe. It's close. But they're both pretty great and if you like funny ladies, give them a try.

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Irby, Samantha. Meaty. Vintage, 2013. NetGalley

Monday, June 11, 2018

May Reading Wrap Up

I know. I only posted ONCE in May. And it was one of these wrap ups. I'm disappointed. I wanted to get some more writing done and I could/should make more of an effort to do so. But I'm tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiired. I am going to (try) to stop feeling guilty about not getting writing done and just accept that for a little while, this is how it's going to be. I'll have a couple reviews and I'm thinking I'm gonna try to do some mini-review posts to get caught up. (ALSO I'll have you know I wrote some posts for the Frankenstein readalong and then never posted them because who knows why. I think I forgot and then was so far back and just. I need a nap)

But hey, since I can do some stats, let's do that

Number of books read
3
And a Bottle of Rum: The History of the New World in Ten Cocktails by Wayne Curtis
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
The Glitch by Elisabeth Curtis

Total pages read
1,189

Fiction
67%

POC authors
33%

Female authors
33%

US authors
67%

Book formats
ebook: 33%
paperback: 67%

Where'd I get the book
Indie: 67%
Netgalley: 33%

Review books
33% (and now I have 2 books I really need to review)
Rereads
33% (gotta get ready for the Crazy Rich Asians movie! Also, great beach reach. And I read it on the beach. I was on a )

Books by decade
2000s: 33%
2010s: 67%

Resolution books
33%
because of Crazy Rich Asians (POC and non-US author) but it feels sort of like cheating since it's a re-read. But not so much that I'm not going to count it.