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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

The synopsis:
Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck–impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence “Can I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear I’ll shut up about it?”

Perhaps you want to know what Mindy thinks makes a great best friend (someone who will fill your prescription in the middle of the night), or what makes a great guy (one who is aware of all elderly people in any room at any time and acts accordingly), or what is the perfect amount of fame (so famous you can never get convicted of murder in a court of law), or how to maintain a trim figure (you will not find that information in these pages). If so, you’ve come to the right book, mostly!

In Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, Mindy invites readers on a tour of her life and her unscientific observations on romance, friendship, and Hollywood, with several conveniently placed stopping points for you to run errands and make phone calls. Mindy Kaling really is just a Girl Next Door—not so much literally anywhere in the continental United States, but definitely if you live in India or Sri Lanka.
My thoughts: Holy hell, I really can't review this without giving one of the half compliments she talks about in the book (akin to "I initially thought you were ugly, but then you walked closer to me and I realized you were pretty'"-Page 122), but I mean it in the best possible way.  I don't watch The Office, and as a result, don't really know Mindy Kaling, although the cover appeals to me.  This whole last sentence?  Totally my loss - because if this book is any indication, I have been missing out like whoa (yes I did say that, and I apologize but I really couldn't think of anything else that would convey exactly how much I've been missing out on).  Seriously, my face was either in pain from laughing so much or because my mouth was hanging open in amazement at her deadpan hilariousness, and *amazing insight* (not a joke) in some of her essays.  Seriously, I kind of love that my role of best friend has been recently vacated because I want a Mindy Kaling type as my next best friend.  Target has this on sale for $17 right now and honestly?  The inside sleeve of the book jacket, the Introduction, and the Alternate Titles For This Book alone had me laughing so much more than many other humor compilations of essays/memoirs and is worth the cost alone.  I'd like to thank ONTD's recent YA post commentors' for urging the rest of us to go out and purchase this book.  I'd like to urge others to do the same.

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1 comments:

Marce said...

I don't watch the show so I didn't recognise her at all. I first saw this on Goodreads nomination list, definitely sounds funny.

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