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I wish I didn‘t wait so long to try a Samantha Irby! 🤣

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“Dark chocolate tastes like ants “. 🐜 😝

God DAMN so good. Good as fuck. Truly hilarious and enlightening and just fucking relatable. God bless this amazing woman.

Read for Noname's book club!!

I wasn't sure what to expect of Samantha Irby, but I loved this. Funny jokes, self-deprecating humor and crazy situations, followed by unexpected tenderness and the relatable pains of being a woman. I did especially laugh out loud about her devil cat!

i powered through a quarter of the audiobook and none of it was appealing or even slightly amusing to me… i had high hopes because i‘ve seen irby‘s books recommended all the time. maybe i started with the wrong one?

Everyone seems to love Samantha Irby, and while this was decently amusing I think it was just too large a dose for me to swallow. Her humor is very self deprecating and overall too negative for me to love. I do admire her for talking about the things that make people uncomfortable about her as a fat black disabled queer woman.
#Nonfiction2023 All About That Bass @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

4.5/5 ⭐️ Samantha Irby is hilarious! This was the second book of hers I read and is now an auto buy author. One of the stories I had to share with my husband and we were both cackling! I bought her new one so hopefully I'll get to it soon.

I didn‘t like it. Some parts were funny (the cat part). Overall it‘s not my type of humor

I appreciated her writing style and enjoyed some essays more than others…maybe I wasn‘t in the right place to enjoy this book as much as I could have.

One of the funniest books I've ever had the pleasure of listening to 😂 I love Samantha Irby and everything she has to say! I listened to Meaty and read the physical version of Wow, No Thank You and equally loved all 3, you can't go wrong with Irby in any format. Can't wait for her newest book 🥰

This essay collection had me legitimately laughing out loud - it‘s so funny. The cat on the front makes so much sense after one essay and becomes a hilarious part of this collection. I will definitely be picking up Irbys other collections because it‘s been so long that I genuinely laughed while reading. The fact that the author moved to the the town I used to live in - Kalamazoo - was an additional treat to discover in this book!

#two4tuesday

1. I do not celebrate this Hallmark faux-holiday. And any day I get books is a most excellent day to me.

2. Well, you asked for it. Tagged.

But if you actually want a love story, I recommend either Marley & Me or The Greatest Love Story Ever Told.

Thanks for the tag Lisa! 💜😆

The more I read Sam Irby, the more I like her 😊

Because when we can‘t sleep we read 😸

The two books that immediately popped into my head when thinking about #GreenAndYellowCovers! Where are my fellow Irby-obsessives? #WindsOfMarch
@Eggs

Listening to this at 1.8x which skews my figuring out how far I am in this thing. I do NOT understand (or maybe I am clueless) on why they (Audible/Amazon) don‘t tell me I am ~40% through. I have to calculate?! And I like maths but really?! ?!?!?!

So many parts of this book, particularly where relationships are concerned, where I'm screaming "OMG, THAT'S ME!"

#popsugarreadingchallenge2021
Book 4/50 read
Prompt: a book by an online personality

Omg I LOVED this book so much. I listened to it on audiobook and laughed out loud so much when walking in the park I think everyone thought I was crazy 😂

Between a pick and a so-so, the bits I either related to or found really funny were laugh out loud funny! Other bits not relatable at all or I didn‘t find funny, I think I was probably a bit old for those bits.
Interesting theory about growing up poor and then being financially reckless (I.e buying lots of shi**), I would concur with that.
In contrast both my kids are like mean accountants (sorry @squirrelbrain ) 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

This is so relatable and another reason for hating lockdown! And if I do make a nice lunch I eat it by 10am. The finance bit has made me laugh the most so far.

Starting this today....after a heavy read, sometimes you just need a little sassy humor

Samantha Irby writes about growing up, work, health, relationships, and heartbreaks. Her style is humorous but coarse.

I liked this. I felt like the essay collection was a little uneven, but I liked it enough to want to read her other books. I liked the way she wrote about her relationship with Helen Keller the cat. My first kitty was kind of a monster too.

This is my first read for 2021 and my submission for this week‘s #integrateyourshelf prompt. I‘ll tag a couple diverse reads I enjoyed in 2020 in the comments. ⬇️

@Emilymdxn @ChasingOm

Excellent collection of hilarious, yet touching personal essays. I loved this on audio. I had read Wow, No Thank You in paperback, but now I kind of want to revisit it on audio.

In any case, highly recommended! 👍

My #lastfirst is the tagged book We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby. I might‘ve been able to finish it yesterday if I didn‘t take a nap, but the nap won. Happy new year! @BookNAround

It took less than two minutes to get to my place and I spent the entire car ride wondering whether my outfit looked good enough for my ghost to float around in for an eternity.

And you would not believe how many pajama pants you can get away with wearing to nice places if you just slap a sharply cut blazer on top of them.

Probably going to be up all night reading and laughing.

Samantha Irby really never disappoints! These essays were incredible, both laugh out loud hilarious and also insightful, open, occasionally emotional. Pretty rare for a book to be able to teach you what it‘s like to live with chronic illness while being Black in America and also be a fun, light book to read in the bath after a long day.

#nfn2020 @Clwojick +20

This is 99p on kindle in the UK today!!! I‘m so excited to read this, I loved the writer‘s other book of essays and I was so hyped when I saw this on sale. Go get it littens she is a SCREAM but also a very insightful scream

#30DaysOfGratitude @jb72

All about audiobooks! I was reluctant to embrace them early on because they always felt so slow. But thanks to Audible's 1.5 speed setting, I'm now on board. 🙂 Fave narrators are Rosamund Pike, Samantha Irby, Tim Curry, and Juliet Stevenson, and Best Audiobook, IMO, goes to Irby's essays.

Thankful for:

-Technology that allows access to stories in myriad ways
-A good audiobook on a long drive
-Tim Curry in general

Hysterical, as always. This was the one Samantha Irby book I hadn't read and it was on par with the other two books of #essays from her. I kept putting it off because I wanted there to be one more book out there if hers I had not yet read. One of the only authors that literally cause lols for me. 😂

This is EXACTLY what I need right now. I will read anything Samantha Irby writes and be happy with life. #libby #audiobook

A funny book of essays by Samantha Irby that's full of her snarky, self-deprecating, sarcastic humor. She talks about everything from her relationships to her job at a veterinarian clinic. ⭐⭐⭐
Another book crossed off for #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks
I think this was the #doublebookspin pick for the month # 19...getting close to my first bingo!

Not for me. There were some funny parts but her sardonic tone was too much even for me.

Parts of it were super relatable, as I also have debilitating chronic physical and mental illnesses, and other parts of it were less relatable. Some parts made me laugh and I'm glad I read it!

This book made me genuinely laugh out loud in public. I‘m a fan of books of essays but don‘t always know what to expect from author to author tone wise. I found her stories to be unexpectedly relatable despite how extreme some seemed. I even got my very-much-not-a-reader sister to check out some of the stories. This book is a miracle worker! #blackvoices

I 100% believe I would like this better on paper rather than on audio. Some things just seems funnier through my eyes than through my ears.

Tried to go with #ownvoices recs for this topic, a mix of memoir and fiction:
Tagged and Meaty by Samantha Irby
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Experimental Film by Gemma Files
The Kiss Quotient & The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Love, Loss, and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi

#integrateyourshelf

She's hilarious. And so, so honest. I immediately followed her on Twitter after starting this 😂

Listening to this on audio was everything I needed with what‘s going on in the world. I loved it! Ymmv. I‘m a direct person and always appreciate it when another person is that way when telling their own experiences. She is hilariously direct and pulls no punches.

I feel Sam Irby would approve of this spin on today's prompt. #LightTheWay #FlyHighJuly
@Eggs

As a WW member, I approve of this message. 😂😂😂

I recently read “Wow, No Thank You” by the author and enjoyed it enough to want to read her earlier works. This was available on Overdrive so I checked it out.

I thought this one was even funnier. I really had a good time reading it. Sam is relatable but also different enough from me to make her life interesting. I recommend this book for fans of humorous essays.

Finished this last night. It is the first collection of essays that I have explored and what a great place to start. FUNNY, uncomfortable, and I can't help but thinking Samantha Irby plucked my thoughts out of my head and put them to paper - wholly relatable!

That's love! 😂