![]() ![]() ![]() “Wow, No Thank You” is about as informal as a collection of diary essays, but as the reader I was along for the ride instead of intruding on private thoughts. Two, three, four essays would pass without any thought of putting the book down. Irby’s voice is strong throughout the book, and easy to get swept up in. My good attitude stuck around through each of Irby’s essays, which range widely from marriage and publishing advice to being haunted by a dead cat and putting together the perfect 90s mixtape. “Still, being featured on a stylish lifestyle blog is my biggest secret dream, and because I am too disgusting to ever be asked in real life, I want to tell you how mine would go.” It was the second page of the book, and I was already chuckling. ![]() 1 best seller for paperback nonfiction, so I decided it was time to see what humorous essays were all about. But Samantha Irby’s “Wow, No Thank You” was one of the most talked-about releases of the spring and the current No. Dragons, aliens and memoirs were all fine, but outside of a joke book or two as a kid I had never read much humor. With that being said, I still resisted the idea of “humor essays” because I never found myself wanting to read a funny book. Luckily I have come to see how essays are actually enjoyable. Why would I spend my free time reading a collection of essays, of all things? Essays were things I had to write for class or struggle to understand for a different class. ![]() There was a time when I saw the word “essays” on the front of a book and avoided it at all costs. ![]()
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