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Jenny Slate
One of Vanity Fair's Great Quarantine Reads: Step into Jenny Slate's wild imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling), "delicious" (Amy Sedaris), and "poignant" (John Mulaney) New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- "this book is something new and wonderful" (George Saunders). You may "know" Jenny Slate from her Netflix special, Stage Fright, as the creator of Marcel the Shell, or as the star of "Obvious Child." But you don't really know Jenny Slate until you get bonked on the head by her absolutely singular writing style. To see the world through Jenny's eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility. As she will remind you, we live on an ancient ball that rotates around a bigger ball made up of lights and gasses that are science gasses, not farts (don't be immature). Heartbreak, confusion, and misogyny stalk this blue-green sphere, yes, but it is also a place of wild delight and unconstrained vitality, a place where we can start living as soon as we are born, and we can be born at any time. In her dazzling, impossible-to-categorize debut, Jenny channels the pain and beauty of life in writing so fresh, so new, and so burstingly alive, we catch her vision like a fever and bring it back out into the bright day with us, where everything has changed.
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Author
Jenny Slate
Pages
240
Publisher
Little, Brown
Published Date
2019-11-05
ISBN
0316485357 9780316485357
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"I was struck by the longing I consistently felt from Jenny slate throughout this book. She’s a very smart and funny person coming off as very confident, publicly, so to be peeking into this vulnerable part of her and see something so different wasn’t expected. Separately, her wordsmithing and the way she would put seemingly incongruous things together was so unique and a delight to experience!"
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CaitVD
"Whimsical and heartfelt and magical. This book contains moments of lightness that made me giggle and moments so earnest and heavy that I think they’ll stick me with forever. Best read in the summer at either dusk/dawn on a front porch or in a hammock. "
Charlotte D
"This was an interesting read/listen a bit different. It was a quick and short read with some humor, reflection and memoir type stories. It reminded me a bit of a one-woman play of sorts.<br/>The first 1/3-1/2 of the book was sort of random except I connected more to some bits but after the first half, I found more to connect with and then with the last few chapters, I found it enlightening and connected quite a bit to that part.<br/>It's a bit like a collection of mini-memoir essays that talk about being a woman, a child, growing up, figuring things out and having an enlightening moment of rising above hard times, etc.<br/>If you're looking for a short listen with some quirkiness memoir type stories and such then you might enjoy this."
Annette W
"Started and finished this book in one day, how? Because I put it away as fast as I opened it. I’ve never read such a self absorbed, diatribe of a privileged life. And I’m supposed to feel her suffering that her life is awful. Give me a break. Whoever told Slate to write this book should be slapped. It’s wordy prose is boring. I’m supposed to like this because the unnamed President is the tipping point to her life falling to pieces. Dramatic much. I’m not falling for it. And I’m definitely not paying for it. Return.<br/><br/>Oh yeah. The best part of this book is the cover. ;)"
Tanya Grayson Andoniadis
"I absolutely loved this book. The imagery and the story telling was just spot on. It makes you think about things in a way you never have before. The way it’s written might be a little hard to follow, but definitely worth it! "
Emilia Rodriguez
"If I was really deep I may have enjoyed this more. The language Slate uses was fantastically and lent a magically note to this book from start to finish."
Shannon Westman
"Sort of a half and half relationship with this one, relatable in a lot of ways but also can be hard to follow. The chapters become very abstract, but read into it!"
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Sophia M
"Started and finished this book in one day, how? Because I put it away as fast as I opened it. I’ve never read such a self absorbed, diatribe of a privileged life. And I’m supposed to feel her suffering that her life is awful. Give me a break. Whoever told Slate to write this book should be slapped. It’s wordy prose is boring. I’m supposed to like this because the unnamed President is the tipping point to her life falling to pieces. Dramatic much. I’m not falling for it. And I’m definitely not paying for it. Return.<br/><br/>Oh yeah. The best part of this book is the cover. ;)"
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Tanya Andoniadis
"She wrote this book to breathe life back into a girl who loves to stare at flowers and be wholly in love with postures, glances, and sunset colors."
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"Amazing."
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Amber Solan
