Book 9 of 2012: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? And Other Concerns by Mindy Kaling
After months of DYING to buy this book, I got it for Christmas from Andrew’s parents… and subsequently let it sit for a month. I’m weird.
The book ended up being adorable. That’s the best word for it. Mindy Kaling is sorta Tina Fey in training, and this book was like the cute little sister to Bossypants. It definitely wasn’t as roll-on-the-floor funny as Bossypants, but a lot of it was more relatable than Tina’s book if only because Mindy is basically my age. I, too, write in bed on my laptop, and take vain pictures of myself on my phone (there’s a whole chapter of her self-portraits on her Blackberry), and have one of my credit card numbers memorized for online shopping, and have long dramatic email chains with my friends. I also have REALLY intense revenge fantasies when I run, so I was laughing heartily at that chapter.
My favorite quote, of which there were MANY: “I’m the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.”
I recommend strongly for any women in their mid-20’s to mid-30’s. Anyone that’s pre-marriage, pre-baby, but post-adolescence will totally get the in-between phase that Mindy so embraces. And her stories are freaking hilarious. She gets solicited by a cupcake bakery to tweet about them, she makes Irish exits from parties, and she was a chubby tormented kid who turned it into a lifetime of loving diets.
Basically, like Jamie, I want to be Mindy Kaling’s best friend. Four stars.
I enjoyed this book…it’s funny and relatable and I wish Mindy Kaling and I were buddies.
