Note: I received this book from the author/publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I quite enjoyed this book! I'd say that Irby and I could be friends but we both enjoy our alone time and there is no way that we would ever actually really become friends. So really we have similar habits and personality traits? But I love well written book of essays and this one really hits a lot of my favorite themes. She manages to balance heartfelt emotions with dry, sometimes deprecating humor and really strike a chord. I had a great time reading this and I genuinely liked Irby's essays quite a lot. I can't wait to read her next book.

Accessible but too precious and precocious by half - memoir-ish essays are performative by their very nature and I'm not buying the ol' razzle dazzle from Ms. Irby AT ALL. Far too many, "Girl, why are you like this?' and too few genuine laughs. A no.

In expected Irby fashion, this was a riotous and impressively honest collection. How she manages to be so hilarious while sharing so much I don't know, but I enjoyed Meaty in the same way I delight in hearing someone say things out loud that I've though and wondered but never been brave enough to give voice to. This is an unapologetic and fascinating, well written collection you won't soon forget.

I've been a fan of Irby's blog for a while so knew I would be a fan of "Meaty." A collection of essays on everything from dating, to work, college, social life and health challenges - no topic is off limits or TMI. Have already recommended the book to friends who weren't previously aware of Irby's work but are now full on fans.

These insightful relatable essays manage to combine humour and brilliance effortlessly, making Samantha Irby a new favourite author whose work I will not hesitate to read in future!

I just couldn’t get in to this one - I have heard amazing things about her earlier work in audiobook format, particularly as she narrates them. For me, I didn’t think the humor in this collection translated in print. I did think the stylistic creativity was cool (the first part of the book is told in recipe form!) so I think for those into more experimental works this might be for you.

Irby's collection of essays is certainly no-holds barred. Covering topics from her difficult childhood and her dating life to living with Crohn's Disease and her love of food, Irby offers her unfiltered views on life, love, and tacos. I found her writing to be super refreshing in its honesty and boldness. Some of the essays can get a little raunchy (and possibly TMI?), so I had to take off one star for that. However, for people who aren't squeamish about these topics, the book is funny as hell and moving at the same time (I cried at the end of one essay). I'm so excited to read her other book now too. Definite thumbs up.

I was scanning through NetGalley and saw a copy of Samantha Irby's earlier collection, Meaty available. And since I enjoyed We Are Never Meeting in Real Life so damn much I thought I'd see if I could get a copy of this. And a copy was granted, in exchange for an honest review.

I can't decide which of two books I like better. It's hard to say since really they're both similar. They're both collections of essays about her and her life. They're hilarious and vulgar and a times touching (did I tear up while reading one about her mother? MAYBE. Was it followed up not long after with an essay about diarrhea? MAAAYBE)

She has essays about dating ("How to Get Your Disgusting Meat Carcass Ready for Some New, Hot Sex"), medical issues ("The Many Varieties of Hospital Broth"), family ("My Mother, My Daughter"), money ("I Should Have a Car with Power Windows By Now"), pop culture ("Elena Tyler: AKA Why I Can't Be Mad at Lena Dunham"). What I'm saying is Irby has range.

And she's relatable. I mean, look at the way she talks about her Crohn's Disease
And I know a lot of things suck, and so many people are going through so many terrible things, but to me, in this goddamned moment, nothing is worse than this gross-ass shit disease. Yes, there are worse things, but since those things are not currently happening to me, this bullshit is the worst thing that has ever happened to anyone in the history of ever.
This is how I feel about any bad thing that happens to me, regardless of how serious. It's times like this you realize how truly connected we all are.

This book is hilarious. Thinking about it, I may like it better than WANMIRL. Maybe. It's close. But they're both pretty great and if you like funny ladies, give them a try.

The problem with this book is that I kept comparing it to her other book, We are Never Meeting in Real Life. I found that book to be funnier and more down to earth. If I had read this one first maybe I would have liked it better. Knowing some of her issues already I felt like some of the essays were repetitive and contradictory.

Last year, I was introduced to Samantha Irby through We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, which I loved. MEATY is a reprint of an earlier essay collection by Irby and like We Are Never Meeting, it offers good mix of gross-out humour, vulnerability and thoughtfulness. Sometimes it was just TOO MUCH(!!) for me – too TMI, too much repetitive self-deprecation, etc. but I enjoyed it overall and will continue to read anything that Irby puts out. Her sense of humour outweighs the cringey bits IMO. I’d suggesting starting with We Are Never Meeting in Real Life and, if you can handle it, return to this one.

I LOVED this book! Samantha Irby has this combination of honesty and humor that blew me away. She is so funny. She is my spirit animal. She is the voice that the voice in my head wishes it could be. I dare people to read this book without laughing. Sure it is awkward and graphic and sometimes uncomfortable, but she is real. There is no filter. I love it. Have I mentioned how much I love this book? LOVE!

I adored Samantha Irby's most recent collection, We Are Never Meeting In Real Life. Meaty is her first collection of esasys, repackaged, and I could definitely tell that it less developed than her current writing.

This memoir takes place before Irby's other work, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life (also good, go read it), but it was just as good to read it after. In some ways, funnier, because she spends so much time talking about something that ultimately happens and she writes about in her second memoir. This felt a bit, dare I say it, meatier than her other memoir, if only because it includes taking care of her ailing mother as a young child and teen, then losing both parents before she was 18. It's an important part of her story, but it's not her entire story. Irby will still make you laugh, even when the subject is gross or sad.

Irby’s honesty is refreshing and her sense of humor is on point. I mean, you have got to love a book in which the author unflinchingly tells you that she sometimes wears a diaper at night because her stomach distress warrants it. But just because the book is funny doesn’t mean it’s not also deadly serious. There’s a lot about classism, racism, and sexism within these pages. There’s also a great deal of yearning—for her lost parents and for what she does not (yet) have.

I loved Samantha Irby's more recent book We Are Never Meeting in Real Life so much, enough to consider it a new favorite. She reminded me of Roxane Gay (in more ways than just her meditations on weight and sex), but with Jessi Klein's levity and wit. Meaty felt less clean and not just because of the tummy problems (which I enjoyed the first three times they were brought up and then grew tired of). The book just had (sorry!) too much fat. It could have been half the length and accomplished more. Again: it was good, but probably not worth the reissue.

Irby is funny, relatable, and most importantly, honest. I couldn't put this book down - Irby's honesty in discussion of her childhood, body image, sexuality, and womanhood was refreshing. While I adore memoirs, they can seem forced. Meaty is vulgar but not over the top. Meaty is dark but humorous. I've already recommended this to several friends. A+

I didn't love this collect quite as much as I loved "we are never meeting in real life," but Samantha Irby is a knock out essayist.

Samantha Irby has such an honest, amusing take on her life and the lives of others. She made me laugh out loud and cry.

Samantha Irby is hilarious, wise, witty and a joy to read. The only thing that surpasses reading her, is seeing her read from her own work. One of my favorite voices.

This collection of essays was way too short, as I sped through it and was left wanting more. I loved the author's humor and am now seeking out her other work.