Little Weirds
Ratings11
Average rating3.5
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Ratings11
Average rating3.5
"To see the world through Jenny Slate's eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility. As she will remind you, we live on an ancient ball that rotates around a bigger ball made up of lights and gasses that are science gasses, not farts (don't be immature). Heartbreak, confusion, and misogyny stalk this blue-green sphere, yes, but it is also a place of wild delight and unconstrained vitality, a place where we can start living as soon as we are born, and we can be born at any time. In her dazzling, impossible-to-categorize debut, Slate channels the pain and beauty of life in writing so fresh, so new, and so burstingly alive that we catch her vision like a fever and bring it back out into the bright day with us, and everything has changed"--
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the few stories i enjoyed in no way make up for the random ramblings that occupy the entirety of the book. i can get a book about nothing, but i spent so much of the time reading this begging for something. this book has an audience that'll love it, but i'm entirely not that audience. though it did help me feel like i understand why people hate the hbo show girls. only kept with it because i was reading it with a friend.
Wow, this is a poem about loving oneself and it is beautiful and vulnerable and lovely.
I absolutely can't write a full review on this, but I will say this was absolutely beautiful. It's prose that reads like poetry and is a Little Weird (get it?). I could only read this in bits at a time because the writing was so rich, and because at times I found myself so overwhelmed with emotion that I was sobbing too hard to continue. I'm so thankful Slate was willing to share this with us.
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