Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns): A Review
Monday, 17 February 2014
Read post
I've been looking to expand
my blog into other areas as I'm on a no new make up ban until April. So far
it's going well but unfortunately that means my main source of inspiration is
currently in short supply.
I absolutely adore reading,
always have done. According to my mum I taught myself to read when I was 3 (I
don't know how true this is) even now I love nothing more than curling up and
losing myself in a really good book, particularly when it's raining or cold
outside. I recently read and loved Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
(And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling and I thought I would review it for you
lovely lot.
As a third year
English student I spend most of my time reading however I usually don't have
the time to read something I actually want to read rather than something I have
to for my degree. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
-hereafter referred to as IEHOWM - is the first book in a long time that I've
read purely because I wanted to.
IEHOWM is a memoir
interspersed with observational essays, detailing Mindy's life from a geeky yet
adorable child, to working as a babysitter in New York and then finally to
landing her dream job as a writer on the brilliant and hilariously funny US
adaptation of The Office. Usually I am not a fan of autobiographies, much
preferring to lose myself in a fictional word where children are forced to
fight to the death (I realise that sentence makes me look like a psycho) or a
boy wizard who has the fate of the magical world on his shoulders. Having said
that I utterly adored it, Mindy's book was both hilarious and utterly
absorbing. I could not and did not put it down.
I love Mindy, I'm a huge fan
of both The Mindy Project and The Office (US) so I'm not even a little bit
surprised that I thoroughly enjoyed her book. The thing I love most about Mindy
is that she knows who she is and is completely unashamed of that fact. This
comes through in her writing and I adored it. A self confessed "vain
flake" Mindy comes across as both funny and honest, making the book like a
conversation with your best friend where neither of you can stop laughing.
Obviously I loved finding
more about Mindy, (she's my spirit animal, her and Jennifer Lawrence), but what
I really loved about this book was the random lists, I am the kind of person
who makes lists for everything in life. My To Do List has it's own To Do List
(would that be a To Do To Do List?). I particularly loved Best Friend Rights
and Responsibilities and Types of Women in Romantic Comedies Who Aren't Real.
Both were hilarious and accurate. In fact I found myself saying "it's
funny cause it's true" whilst giggling more times than I can count
throughout the course of this book.
My absolute favourite part
though was entitled When You're Not Skinny This Is What People Want You To
Wear. As a fellow not skinny girl I know how awful it is when people pick out
clothes that they think you should wear, I'll give you an example for Christmas
my size 8 sister bought me, among other things, crop tops. I'll say that again
crop tops and that's plural, as in more than one . I would not be seen dead in
a crop top for a lot of reasons and can't even begin to fathom why she bought
them for me. Oh we'll it's the thought that counts. Anyway...
I thoroughly recommend this
book for anyone who wants to have a giggle with one of the funniest ladies in
comedy. I loved it.
Love love love xx
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