Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
2020 • 319 pages
Ratings29
Average rating4.1
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Ratings29
Average rating4.1
Staring down the barrel of her fortieth year, Samantha Irby is confronting the ways her life has changed since the days she could work a full 11 hour shift on 4 hours of sleep, change her shoes and put mascara on in the back of a moving cab and go from drinks to dinner to the club without a second thought. Recently, things are more 'Girls Gone Mild.' In Wow, No Thank You Irby discusses the actual nightmare of living in a rural idyll, weighs in on body negativity (loving yourself is a full-time job with shitty benefits) and poses the essential question: Sure sex is fun but have you ever googled a popular meme?
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This was a fun book with a singular voice. I liked the second half better than the first (or maybe I settled into the style more). I think the humor is definitely meant for folks in their 30s and 40s (as Irby is) but I still enjoyed the book a lot, especially when she was able to tie the funny and ridiculous to the profound.
Forget breath of fresh air, this book is a wind tunnel of realness! “Relatable” is a vast understatement for what lies between these digital covers. I laughed, I got the feels, I felt personally attacked–everything necessary for memorable book I'd recommend to all my friends. There will be more than a few re-reads of this book in my near and distant future.
DNF'ed at 25% it's not what I'm in the mood for. Might come back to it someday.
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