Quietly Hostile

I love Sam Irby of COURSE. I checked this one out on audiobook and it worked for me–I'm not a big audiobook person bc it's harder for me to pay attention long-form and I often will realize I spaced out and need to scrub back a few minutes. But with the essay format it was easier to follow (and TBH some of her more in-depth discussions of pop culture stuff that I don't know as well, like Sex and the City and Dave Matthews, I was fine spacing out on). Overall: just the funny, frank (to the point of grossness) stuff you'd expect from Sam Irby.

I only just started reading Samantha Irby's essays earlier this year, but she's quickly becoming one of my favorites. Normally bathroom humor isn't my thing, and there was a lot of it in this book, but here it didn't bother me. It was brutally honest, laugh-out-loud funny, and (sometimes sadly) relatable. My only complaint is that some essays dragged on a little too long (the Sex and the City one in particular). Overall, I really enjoyed this collection.

A huge thank you to NetGalley and Vintage for the advance reader copy!