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She really is a talented and amazing woman and Hollywood and the Arts are all the better for having her as a talent and muse.

And her humor is great. I would say I would have quit reading this so the narrator made it so I finished. I liked everything she was straightforward and candid about. Any additional comments?

It got repetitive and maybe with different editing on some of the tirades she tends to go off on were a turn off and maybe if they were shortened or not allowed it would have been as good as the first book. Mindy's second stab at a book is short, charming, and downright f u n n y.

This book is no overachiever and it is content to be what it is It's undone and perfect. Mindy leads us into her life right now and allows us a look around. Millenials rejoice the struggle is real, real funny. I'm fairly certain Mindy Kaling could read a grocery list, and it would be hysterical.

Indeed, she might have done that in this book, but I don't want to spoil it for you. And Kaling isn't just funny. Her dry humor has a sweetness and poignancy to it that makes it memorable. Thanks for another great book. What did you like best about Why Not Me?? What did you like least? Hmmm what I liked best was Mindy Kalings narration. What I liked least was it seemed to be the same as the first book.

Well I know this will come as no surprise to any reader, but these books are shallow. I know Mindy Kaling fought to get where she is today but I hated really how lacking she is in the area of depth. She performed her own truths wonderfully. Maybe something of more depth, but I think I am digging a little deep myself, wanting more from her than there was.

I'm a big fan so you might say I'm easily pleased by anything Mindy but still here are my highlights: great and short essays that are both funny and pop-culture-deep.

I also liked that, being a second book, is less of an autobiography and more a smart woman's everyday's concerns turned into really well thought and really funny essays something like fun reflective confession. Her performance makes the hole thing better because she knows like nobody else how's that supposed to sound. I'd seen the shows and heard of her writing but this book has converted me to team Mindy!

Finally someone real and I don't mean in the body shape condescending way I mean her words mean something! Why Not Me? Add to Cart failed. Please try again later. Add to Wish List failed.

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D Imagine Dragons My Universe feat. Creedence Clearwater Revival. Aplicaciones y plugins. Desktop Google Chrome Windows 8. Plugin W. Media Player Winamp. Start your review of Why Not Me? Since last night I've been fighting exhaustion, and I think I might have a sinus infection, but I wanted to get this review done within 24 hours of finishing because I know that I will forget what I want to say about it if I wait any longer than that.

First, I liked this book more than her first one, although I do admit my memory of that one is a bit squidgy. From what I do remember, I thought it was incredibly readable and I loved her voice. It also made me laugh out loud, which is hard to do. But I also remember wanting more from it. It didn't feel like there was anything cohesive behind it, and I wanted a little bit more personal stuff. And I don't mean I wanted her to dish on her personal life, I mean that I wanted to get a better idea of who she is and what she cares about.

I wanted substance. Both of those things were addressed this time around. With Why Not Me? She tells you in her introduction that wanting people to like her is no longer her main motivation. Now, she wants you to know her.

I nearly cheered out loud when I read that bit, but I was sitting in Whole Foods, so I held myself back. All of the essays in the book are funny, but the best ones are the ones where she wrestles with the question, Who is Mindy Kaling?

Like, the essay about her hatred of weddings was good, but it was so lightweight in comparison to the essay where she talks about making a new friend, and having that friend abandon her for whatever reason.

She talks frankly about her public image, her body image, and her sense of self. She also talks about her "weird as hell" relationship with BJ Novak, which turns out to be a hilarious and poignant piece of writing. She acknowledges her flaws in several essays: her tendency to be a bad sport, her up and down issues with her body, her self-confidence. My absolute favorite chapter though, was the one where she writes an alternate history to her own life and it turns into a romantic comedy.

When The Mindy Project eventually comes to an end, I just want her to make movies where people fall in love. Or maybe write a romance in book form. Still, I did find myself wishing for just a little bit more heft here. It's definitely still lightweight reading overall, despite the moments where she gets real.

But it accomplishes its purpose. It makes you laugh, and you come away knowing Mindy Kaling hopefully the real one just a little bit better. Full review tomorrow when my brain isn't trying to fall out of my ears from tiredness.

And that is important. There's a line, and I'm probably at the back. But I would please like to request, please, that you give us lots of behind the scenes details about The Mindy Project , please, particularly about Chris Messina and kissing and dancing and maybe some other stuff, too. Like about how awesome and funny you are. And stories about race and being a lady and family and homeownership and dating of course.

But mostly Chris Messina. Love, Ashley View all 8 comments. Probably the most relatable memoir I've ever read! View all 4 comments. Then again since so many 'memoirs' don't even come close to this on so many levels, is what I raised worth mentioning? I don't know, but I felt the need to share. An absolute must-read for women of colour, all younger women, fans of The Office and The Mindy Project. Good enough for me to keep in my collection and desperately seek her other work, but then I am already a big fan.

Worth reading alone for the fictionalised dating chapter of an alternate Mindy Kaling, written solely in digital communications email, Twitter, texts etc. I mean, Mindy and I have quite a bit in common and I thought we could possibly be kindred spirits. We both enjoy testing out new inventions.

We both think the best day at work is a day when someone is having a birthday and there is free cake to be scored. We both believe that the only way to truly get something in life is to earn it.

I know, right? In fact, her lack of knowledge about nearly everything pop culture related kind of boggled my mind. Mmmmmmm, huge wang. Where was I? She also admitted she dreams of being best buds with Goop, which just makes me want to. However, later she told a story about offending an anti-vaxxing popstar and redeemed herself a wee little bit.

Just no. If you do that, you will be fine. Ask any possum. Can she write a good second book? Or has she become an insufferable asshole? Those questions and more will be answered this Fall.

View all 30 comments. Mar 20, Chelsea chelseadolling reads rated it liked it. I feel a lil weird rating essays about someone's life, but this was.. I chuckled at times but I just don't think celebrity essay collections are really for me. View 1 comment. I'm so embarrassed that I didn't know who Mindy Kaling was, I just saw that a lot of people like the book and thought I would read it.

Then I found out she was on The Office which I have never watched and need to some day and that she has her own show and books and things. I live under a rock at times. I liked the book good enough, she is really funny. I could give a million funny excerpts but I won't do that, but there is one where she is giving her daily routing driving to work and this OMG!

I could give a million funny excerpts but I won't do that, but there is one where she is giving her daily routing driving to work and this one thought was particular funny and scary to me. I have seen some fascinating examples of humanity in these hours. Meth heads arguing in the parking lot of a Kumon, a man pleasuring himself on a bus-stop bench.

Years ago I would've called them creeps. Now I call them my commute buddies. She also has pictures throughout the book. Not of the stuff above!!!! There are little email sections and a little brain where it shows what she's thinking.

Oh God, and when she was talking about getting all of this email from these prisoners. These things happen to everyone! I think she has a great sense of humor and she seems to be a very inspirational person to a lot of people and I think that is just great! View all 14 comments. I'll go back and write a review of Kaling's first book at some point, I promise. The cliff notes version of my thoughts on Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me is that I enjoyed it, but Kaling was very clearly being selective with what she wanted to share and what she wanted to leave out, and the whole thing felt slightly incomplete.

Overall, it was funny but ultimately unsatisfying. I'm happy to report, therefore, that Why Not Me? Kaling's first book was a mishmash of funny essays and stories about her childhood and time spent working in Hollywood; Why Not Me? There are still a few funny essays thrown in - "Things to Bring to My Dinner Party", "4am Worries", and my favorite, "A Perfect Courtship in My Alternate Life" where Kaling imagines an alternate-universe Mindy who teaches Latin at a private school in New York and has a sparring flirtation with the history teacher.

She has a whole chapter of the emails exchanged by this fictional version of herself and the history teacher, and I would absolutely watch that movie - especially because I imagined Chris Messina as the history teacher. Kaling probably did too, because when she's introducing the section she writes, "I will have a stern man in anything I ever write; I just love a gruff guy with a heart of gold.

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