Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advanced copy of this book - all thoughts and opinions are my own.

Samantha Irby has nailed it with this second book of essays - it is the perfect second helping of her work for those who loved her first book, We Are Never Meeting In Real Life.

Samantha's work is hilarious, witty, crass, insightful, honest and completely brutal - and I never fail to enjoy reading her essays. There is no specific way to sum up the contents of this book, or to jam this into a specific reading category, which is what makes it so completely awesome. Covering everything from relationships, her ongoing health issues, and random observations on life, Sam has the ability to make every topic entirely relatable and in most cases, perfectly humorous.

I would say my most pleasant surprise with this second book of essays was finding some truly delicious and interesting recipes sprinkled throughout the book - written with a dash of hilarious direction and sidebar annotations, reminiscent of Chrissy Teigen's cookbook style - that I cannot wait to test out.

This book is like having a drink with that straight shooting friend, who is DEFINETELY going to tell you your ass looks fat in those jeans that you weren't sure about, and that is to say, this book is worth the read. Get this into your summer reading piles, and enjoy the ride (with a mixing bowl full of Bad Girl Punch).

Samantha Irby is ....everything. Honest, hilarious, brash. There's no filter and thank god for that. This is a reissue of Irby's first collection of essays. Covering dating, food, bathrooms, how to prepare for sex, how to avoid people, how to be a person.

I enjoyed this in spurts, sneaking a chapter in here or there. She's funny, she's open and I think she's now my new fav.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Samantha Irby is everything I want from an essayist - smart, quick, funny, and real. This collection is relatable and irreverent; Irby's tone is perfect. I especially loved the recipes, which made me feel like I was tipsy on wine and cooking with a friend. I can't wait to see how Irby's style translates to the small screen in her new series!

Prior to "We are never meeting in real life" there was "Meaty" and I'm so very pleased it is being re-issued with this wonderful updated cover. Samantha Irby is a gem and I can't wait to put their books in the hands of library patrons!

Sam Irby is absolutely one of my favorite writers of the past few years. She pulls no punches when it comes to Crohn's disease, dating, or the beautiful parts of enjoying trash television with no worries.

I love Samantha Irby. I adored her second essay collection, I find her funny and relatable, and I enjoyed this collection (her first now republished with a beautiful cover) a whole lot as well. I have been reading mostly heavy memoirs and this was the perfect antidote to those. While there is obvious darkness here, there is also light and humour. I absolutely sped through this and it made me happy while doing so.

I adore her language and her honesty. I love how honest she talks about her body and Krohn's disease. I love how she structures her essays and her thoughts. I do not mind her vulgarity at all and in fact appreciated its freshness.

As most of you will know, I adore memoirs written by women funnier than me and Samantha Irby is among the funniest. I do think her second collection is the stronger of the two which only makes me more excited to see whatever she does next. Also, this book is being made into a TV series and I cannot tell you how excited I am.

Well, this got gross fast. There were a few chuckles to be had near the beginning-- I particularly enjoyed Irby's discussion of different diets-- but this quickly turned aggressively nasty and made me go from light interest in what she was talking about into a desire to close the book and be done with this and anything else she's ever written.

Samantha Irby can do no wrong in my opinion. She never fails to make me laugh and think. I found this collection almost as enjoyable as "we are never meeting in real life". I look forward to listening to the audiobook of this collection. There is a special magic when she narrates her stories.

This collection by notoriously hilarious Chicago essayist Samantha Irby delivers as promised, "scathing wit and poignant candor". Irby vacillates between cockily extolling her superior intellect, and wallowing in self-doubt; I hope this evidences more artistic license than autobiography, as I'd hate to think someone so gifted is actually as hard on herself as she claims - considering her health issues, the diet she describes here constitutes self-harm.

This book is a collection of essays written by Samantha Irby. Samantha Irby writes a hilarious blog, bitchesgottaeat.com and you can expect the same writing style in this book that you find there.

I requested this book from Netgalley and was instantly excited to get approved. I thought this book sounded hilarious and I couldn't wait to read it. When I started it, though, I struggled. I thought I would struggle throughout the book, but I was wrong. It was slow going at first, but continuing on, I loved it. This book offered humor, generally at the expense of the author, but also I found myself feeling a variety of emotions as I read through this collection of essays. I enjoyed it, with only two drawbacks: I struggled at the start and the ending was abrupt and I was unprepared. Thank you Netgalley, the publisher & of course Samantha Irby, for allowing me to read this book as an ARC.

I listened to <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2166259443">We Will Never Meet in Real Life</a> and loved it so when this book came up on NetGalley, I requested it immediately. And I have to say, I really, really think that this would be better "read" as an audiobook. Part of the charm of the first book was listening to Irby's cadence and hearing the stories in her own voice. While the essays in this book are similar to those in her first, I just didn't connect as well as I did with her voice in my ears.

Three stars
This book comes out April 3
ARC kindly provided by NetGalley

I really, really wanted to love this book, but there is just so many s#%t stories a girl can take. I liked Samantha's previous book, but this one was not as enjoyable to me. I did enjoy the essays about food - my favorite line was "Food is love, and I was married to cookies". However, if I don't hear about diarrhea for another month or so, I will be happy.

Irby's 'Meaty' deals with issues of food, sex, and health. It's relatable, humorous, and at times, depressing/sad. However, there were moments that I felt uncomfortable with some of the depictions that I felt were bordering on transphobia. These moments took me away from the enjoyment of the book.

Truthfully, I'd give this a 3.5, but Samantha Irby is such a fabulous, badass woman with whom I'd like to be friends, that I'm rounding up. Cult of personality? Sign me up.
Real talk: this book is a bit repetitive and somewhat messy, its structure mirroring Irby's own life. BUT it's worth a read. The author's acerbic wit, quirkiness, crassness, honesty, and subversiveness is inspiring and empowering. I found myself relating to her so often, and appreciating that someone else exists who is unafraid to say what others think and do but are too ashamed to admit. To me, this is the kind of treatment Roxanne Gay could've given Hunger to make it palatable (pun intended)-- specifically, wrapping up real issues in humor, or at least including enough irony that we've got some sugar with our medicine. Irby's story is far from all rainbows and unicorns. In fact, she has suffered unimaginable tragedy and has overcome massive obstacles, but she seems to understand the need for laughter. She doesn't seem to take herself or life too seriously, and as a result, we get the heart and feel empathetic for her plight, without having to slog through hundreds of pages of 'woe is me'.

I loved the first 40% of this book where the author draws on very personal stories of childhood, race and food, writing in a brutally honest fashion with a spiky sense of humour that made it all the more enjoyable and impactful. However, I dnf'd this book at 72% through because I just couldn't bring myself to read more about the author's detailed sexual experiences or bodily functions. I admit that a lot of it made me uncomfortable whilst reading and I just couldn't carry on. I think there are a lot of people out there that would love this but it wasn't for me unfortunately.

I read this book and then watched some You Tube videos of Samantha Irby. The book is not written in an essay format, it's more like diatribes. The YouTube videos are much better, she comes across as witty and intelligent while the book is more angry and kind of gross in points. There is too much personal information in the books, and I just think she needs a better editor. Ms. Irby reminds me a lot of the author Roxane Gay, in a good way.

My first laugh came out during the dedication page which was a great way to start the book. Irby is witty, and her observations on life as a single thirty something are eerily familiar. Even while being funny, she still could expose her vulnerable side (especially in the thumbsucking chapter).

Samantha Irby has lived quite a life, and stories that are incredibly unfortunate are told in way that make you laugh but still provide a feeling of sympathy for her. The uniqueness of her experiences are such because SHE'S the one experiencing them in her own, often sass -filled, way. This book is not for the weak stomach or heart, as IBS, homelessness, and the process of death through illness are described in detail. Even so, it's a difficult book to put down.

I've been hooked on Samantha Irby since I picked up We Are Never Meeting in Real Life last year. I have bought no less than five copies of the book to give away as gifts and I suggest it to pretty much everyone who asks me for a book recommendation. Meaty is an essay collection that was put together prior to We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, but it is no less powerful or hilarious - and, at times, it's more emotionally raw (particularly when Irby describes having to care for her mom through the final stages of MS).
Irby describes her own struggles with relationships, self-love, and Crohn's disease, never once losing her unique perspective and amazing way with words. It's rare to find a writer that is both poignant and hilarious, but Irby is IT.

This book has been sold with several different covers, but the one I was shown had a hedgehog on it. Combine that with the title and I knew I was on to something weird and disturbing. This is an irreverent and raw look at the world and how we, as women view it. Irby talks to you like an old friend, one who doesn’t care if she insults you or steps on your toes, but she’ll keep you laughing more than she’ll piss you off. There were parts of this book I identified so strongly with, I nearly fell out of my chair from laughing. My survival book in the age of Trump and all the other insanity