![]() Her time in Hollywood pitching her own show and writing for Lindy West's "Shrill" is a perfect outsider-insider account. The "Guide to Simple Home Repairs" is a hilarious list of home maintenance questions laced throughout the narrative of Irby's various living arrangements through the years. Some of the hits: Her reluctance, as a 40-year-old, to leave her house and follow through with plans that seemed reasonable when she made them is basically me at any age. ![]() The publisher describes it as "smart, edgy, hilarious" and "unabashedly raunchy" - and that isn't just marketing talk. The hits were literally spit-take funny (cracker crumbs everywhere) and the misses were largely a matter of unshared context (the music stuff missed me) and some good, old-fashioned uptight squeamishness on my part. ![]() ![]() This is the first I've read of Samantha Irby's writing and while I loved the title and cover (all of her covers are amazing) and the promise of refreshingly honest hilarity, the book was hit or miss for me. ![]()
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