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So brilliant and so funny! I need more Samantha Irby in my life.

I love Samantha Irby. This is a hilarious write-up of resolutions that never really had a chance. I will read anything this woman writes.

'New Year, Same Trash: Resolutions I Absolutely Did Not Keep' by comedian and blogger Samantha Irby is a short essay about how most of us actually deal with resolutions. It's pretty funny.
Samantha Irby for 2016 wrote down 70 short resolutions. The idea was simple goals that could be met. In this essay, she lists them, and how she fared. As the subtitle might suggest, she didn't do all that well with most of them.
The resolutions are grouped into categories like writing, or eating well. They include entries like: 21. Wear clean socks every day, and are followed by the results: "Noooooooope. Nope, nope, nopety nope. I did not manage to do this."
It's pretty funny, albeit a bit crude at times. It feels a bit like an extended blog post, but it is less than a dollar for the Kindle edition. I think it's worth at least a buck.
I received a review copy of this ebook from Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.

This is a very short quick read, a hilarious essay about New Years resolutions. I was not familiar with Samantha Irby before I read this, but I will be seeking more out. While we are all familiar with the failure to follow through on such resolutions, Irby's honest reflections about them are laugh out loud funny.