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You don’t have to be grateful for sex

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

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I needed to read some essays. I needed those essays to be written by someone very different from me in life and circumstances, but ultimately kind of the same as me in mindset and attitude. Thus I found Sam Irby, and because the book has a picture of a kitty on it, I pulled it off the shelf, opened to a random page, laughed my ass off in the store, and bought it. Irby is the queen of I don’t give a fuck this is […]

“I don’t really have any dreams beyond comfortable pants and unlimited sparkling water” (Bingo)

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

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#CBR11 Bingo: The Collection (Could also work for True Story, Cannonballer Says, Own Voices and Rainbow Flag) Official book description: Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire. With We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., “bitches gotta eat” blogger and comedian Samantha Irby turns the serio-comic essay into an art form. Whether talking about how her difficult childhood has led to a problem in making “adult” budgets, explaining why she should be the new Bachelorette–she’s “35-ish, but could easily […]

I don’t even bother making resolutions any more..

New Year, Same Trash: Resolutions I Absolutely Did Not Keep (A Vintage Short Original) by Samantha Irby

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New Year, same trash is another book I discovered on Kindle unlimited. It is by one of favorite writers at the moment, Samantha Irby. It is a list of 70 resolutions, what she calls micro resolutions, that she basically fails at one after the other. It’s very funny. She’s a funny writer. I’m kind of bummed I didn’t get to listen to it as an audiobook since I like her voice even more than her writing, but such as life. “48. Try to think positively. […]

“Favorite food? Brunch and tacos.”

Meaty: essays by Samantha Irby

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This book is dedicated to the kid Maurice in my US history class my junior year who called me a fucking idiot. lol bruh I was not overly enamored by Samantha Irby’s We Are Never Meeting in Real Life but I was looking for a breezy memoir to listen to following a string of serious books and Meaty was available for immediate download off Overdrive. Plus my sister stans hard for Irby so I felt obligated to give her another shot. I will say I vastly preferred her debut Meaty over […]

“Carnivore in the streets, person-who-has-eaten-a-carrot-masquerading-as-a-hot-dog in the sheets.”

We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby

Meaty by Samantha Irby

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I love this book. I have listened to the audio version of We Are Never Meeting In Real Life and Irby’s previous memoir, Meaty, at least three times each. Like Jenny Lawson’s Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (which I also re-read this year), I have large chunks memorized but I keep returning to it. Irby’s sense of humor and her voice (it’s this weird combination of rasp and Valley Girl and I could listen to it all day) are a perfect combination. “You know, what I […]

Funny and entertaining

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I was trying to figure out which book I wanted to read next when I started flipping through We Are Never Meeting in Real Life (2017) by Samantha Irby. I knew this book was supposed to be a collection of humorous essays, and it was on NPR’s Recommended Books from 2017. Other than that, I knew almost nothing about the book or the author. Irby got right into it with her fictional application to the Bachelor television program. It immediately grabbed my attention, and was funny and entertaining. […]



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