Samantha Irby is back, and witty as ever. Written the way I would speak to my best friends, Irby's latest collection of essays is full of pee-your-pants hilarity and little nuggets of wisdom that simply couldn't come from anywhere else. If you have ever found yourself feeling slightly out of place in your own life, you'll find solace and joy in Irby's work.

This is a really fun title and the first of Irby's books that I've taken the time to read. She and I have a weird amount of location-specific things in common so that was really cool and added to the writing a lot. A little loose (could have used a little bit of editing), but I think she's earned it after several successful published works. She's hilarious.

I was incredibly sad when I finished this book. Not because of the subject matter, but because I knew that I would have to wait awhile before I get another Samantha Irby fix. Wow, No Thank You sees Irby happily committed and living in a rural town with her new family. Although she's happy, she's still got her irascible wit and laser focus on saying the things we are all saying, doing and feeling. I am hoping that in her domestic bliss she is crafting yet another series of essays that show the ridiculousness of the day to day things in this life.

Samatha Irby continues to keep things funny and honest with her latest batch of essays in Wow, No Thank You. Continuing from where We Are Never Meeting In Real Life left off, the author is just as candid about her personal relationships, fears, and innermost thoughts in this volume. Irby yet again doesn't hold back, so if you enjoyed WANMIRL, you will definitely enjoy Wow, No Thank You.

I really needed a book to make time laugh, and this fit the bill. Very relatable. Funny, irreverent, and entertaining. If you liked her other books, you’ll enjoy this one too.

During a time when nothing seemed to pull me out of my funk, Irby comes with her wit and humor to make me laugh, make me think, and just astound me with her craft of words and with how her mind works. I love that she lets us into the intricacies of her mind, her life now after writing two books, and marriage. Truly loved this one.

I'd heard about how funny Samantha Irby's writing was for years and finally got around to reading her stuff. I DON'T KNOW WHY I WAITED SO LONG! This book is hilarious and I definitely want to be her friend, even though "We're Never Meeting in Real Life" is probably titled that for a reason. I laughed out loud *multiple* times, so much so that my husband asked if I was okay. As a fellow thirty-something, I found so many things in this book relatable such as the whole conversation about music, from the mix tapes, to the 30 second samples at the big box music stores. Or the part about how difficult and awkward it is to make friends as an adult. Irby is someone who knows exactly who she is, and is completely comfortable with herself. Refreshing!

Thank you to NetGalley for the DRC.

I'm late writing a comment for this one. I waited for the audiobook rather than read the ARC before publication. Thank you Samantha Irby for brightening some days during the quarantine! Laughed out loud when I really needed to.

I laughed out loud throughout Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby and during this trying state of humanity what else do you really need to know?

Even my husband, who *at best* tolerates me reading passages from books to him, chuckled at her truly gross literal potty humor, admitting it was worth pausing whatever TikTok he was watching.

My absolute only criticisms are that the essay about discovering smart phones sounds like it was written by my mother and that I was truly baffled by the multiple Words with Friends references, but perhaps the first draft of this book was written in 2011 when I too was constantly playing Words with Friends

This book is hilariously written - I love Samantha Irby! This was my first book by her but it will hardly be my last - it was the perfect quarantine read!

An incredibly enjoyable collection of humorous essays that had me shaking with laughter at times. I haven't read either of Irby's previous books, so I will have to go back and read them! There is no need to read them in order, but it seems like it would be nice to see how her life as evolved to where she is now - living in a small Midwestern town with a wife and stepchildren. A far cry from her previous years as a broke city dwelling party girl. I immensely appreciated Irby's thoughts on life which are shared in a deep yet hilarious way.

"Enter the wild world of Samantha Irby’s psyche in her latest collection of comedic personal essays. Topics include the beginnings of her friendship with Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson, several things to do instead of having sex (A real chapter title: “Lesbian Bed Death”), and hypothetical 911 calls for life’s more unique emergencies."

I can't think of the last time I laughed consistently throughout a book, or took screenshots to send to friends! SKIN CARE! CATS!

Samantha Irby you get me! I wish we could be friends. You can't stay at my apartment (NO ROOM!) but I'd take you lunch, and we'd talk about our health and goals, or lack thereof.

I first heard about Samantha Irby when I read Invisible, a book about and for young women with invisible illnesses. I related to her and the things she talked about and couldn’t wait to pick this up. And O.M.G. I’m dying reading this. So many times I think things but never say it... Irby says it. Thank god. It’s worth a read. I’ve downloaded the audio to listen to it as well.

This was my first book by Sam Irby, but it won't be my last. I'm not sure what else to say other than she's hilarious and says so many of the things I think haha :) Thank you for the chance to read this one. So good!

I really enjoyed this book, it was perfect reading for heavy times. I felt tuned in to an honest conversation about life and all that comes with it, I thought that the book was funny but hit at a lot of real issues, I also thought it was thought provoking yet light. I think this is the perfect book for the pandemic that we are all adjusting to this book brought some normalcy to my day and I truly appreciated it. I also found after I finished I missed the conversation that was happening in the book, and wanted more.

Samantha Irby has a unique, self-deprecating, almost stream-of-consciousness kind of delivery. I use the word delivery deliberately because it’s highly conversational, with patter like stand-up. The title is what caught my eye, as I had not come across her work before, but believe I will track down her other books, as well as her blog.
However, she is not merely a clever comedian, like all the best cultural commentators. Her wry words reveal the often shallow and misogynistic reality of the world through which women must navigate, particularly queer women of color. The essays are raw, sometimes painful, and often painfully on the nose.

I have read all of Samantha Irby's books and I like them more as I go along. The series of biographical essays are sometimes hard but always entertaining.

An amusing series of essays. I’m of a similar age to the author so a lot of this is nostalgic for me. She may not think she’s cool but Chicago-adjacent has a lot more going on than where I grew up did. Ah, the good old days of cassette tapes. I am going through her “mixtape“ and listening to her recommendation. I also love the name of her blog because it’s so true, but you’ll have to look that up for yourself.

This is the most entertaining book I have read in a long time....think looooooong time. Most of us could use a little, or a lot, of Samantha Irby's ability to not take life so seriously. So, buy this book. Take your tea glass to the front porch and prepare to forget the rest of your day as you spend it chuckling along with Samantha and her everyday observations.