it was trying too hard, feels too contrived overall, and as an introduction to her as a writer, it was not promising. and it just doesn’t speak to my personal sense of humor.
You know, what I really need is someone who remembers to rotate this meaty pre-corpse toward the sun every couple of days and tries to get me to stop spending my money like a goddamn NBA lottery pick. And then when you get divorced, after all of the crying and draining of mutual bank accounts before your partner gets a chance to, you have to cut the children in half, which is probably very bloody and messy. Plus, getting out of one seems ridiculously expensive. I mean, even the ones on television look like they just take so much goddamned work. Then I would sit there with the engine running, tearing off chunks of apple-cinnamon bread and listening to De La Soul while imagining our life together.Īre you genuinely looking to get married, and why? I would close up the bread shop where I worked, take one of the loaves that was intended for donation to the soup kitchen, then drive my car to his parent’s house and park close enough to see inside, but far enough away to be inconspicuous. No, but when I was nineteen, I used to stalk this dude I went to high school with. Have you ever had a temporary restraining order issued against someone or had one issued against you? If so, please give details and dates: i’m 90% sure this was just for her own use and she never actually submitted it, which is too bad, because i think it would have been a more interesting essay if she had gone through the interview process after filling out the forms with these honest/humorous responses.Īge: 35ish (but I could pass for forty-seven to fifty-two, easily sixtysomething if I stay up all night) The first essay is her filled-out application for the television show The Bachelorette, which she loves. she has certain writerly idiosyncrasies, like invoking imaginary people in the second person, “your aunt Karen,” “ your grandma’s favorite adhesive bandages,” “your recently retired fifth-grade teacher” that threw me for a loop at first, but i think the bigger problem is that our funny bones just don’t align. I think if i had read her first book or followed her blog, i would have gotten into this one more easily that inevitable carry-over appreciation/indulgence would have been in the background as i read this.
I am not blog-savvy, so i’d never heard of the author before, but i needed a nonfiction title to read for this month, and i really really needed something funny, so this seemed to be the perfect choice, and finding another funny lady-writer for the future would just be icing on the cake. I read this book because it was free, blurbed by jenny lawson, and it had a cat on the cover, thus combining three of my favorite things. Oooh, goodreads choice awards semifinalist for best humor book! what will happen?
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