What was this? I truly did try to read it with good intentions - the review in the newspaper was good, and a friend of mine really likes the website She Does the City, where the author writes a column.

But this was terrible.

The kind of awful that makes you think all those old people complaining about Millennials are actually right. This is the kind of self-aware, navel-gazing, solipsistic, narcissistic drivel that seems to pass as both "funny" and "profound" by many people who read fashionable literary magazines, go to brunch on weekends and then talk about how profound the essays were in the above-mentioned literary magazines.

These essays were neither funny, nor profound. They were immature, annoying and abrasive.

I can see where Heisey was trying to go - she just wasn't getting there. At least for me. I'm a bit disappointed by how much I didn't like this book because I was looking forward to some good caustic, funny essays on being a young woman in the city.

Ah well. Perhaps next time.

Loved it! Review coming soon to papertraildiary.com

I struggle to write this review, as this is one of the Greatest Books of All Time.

I am so glad I picked this up for $2, because I just didn’t get it...at all..

2017 Book Challenge- Read a collection

Some of the entries in this collection were spot on, exactly my type of humor, the sort of essay or story that I would share with friends and insist they read it. But then some of the entries fell flat for me- either trying too hard to be funny or just missing funny all together. So while I liked this collection- especially for the interesting mix of personal essays, short stories, lists, etc.- I did think some of the pieces were just so-so. I can tell Monica Heisey is a good writer and will continue to write some great pieces about being an adult woman (or at least attempting to be an adult, which I can relate to).

Just wasn't my thing.

3.5 Not groundbreaking, but a few good laughs. The poems were particularly funny. Easy and enjoyable.