merryfaith
Written on May 31, 2020
I wanted to love this - and the few essays that I did, I really really did. But the rest, while well written and dryly funny, I didn't. It wasn't like I was dragging my feet through this, I just felt myself being like, "alright then" at the end of most essays. Maybe that was the point, but at I picked this up based on a recommendation that Irby writes stuff that makes you laugh out loud a lot, and I was at the point of quarantine where I SO needed that, so maybe I went in with the wrong expectations based on my sense of humor and no familiarity with her work.
Reviewers seem to love her newer collections a little more, I'll still check them out, now that I'm used to her writing style. Don't write this off because of my meh review, humor is subjective.
Reviewers seem to love her newer collections a little more, I'll still check them out, now that I'm used to her writing style. Don't write this off because of my meh review, humor is subjective.