It starts off slow and kind of dense, but once the action begins, it's hard to resist the story as it drives forward. It reads as a true epic, one that makes you feel the world really has been reshaped as you read it. Would recommend.

So has getting married, becoming a successful writer, and even writing a culturally-significant episode of television changed Samantha Irby? Nope. At least, not in a bad way. Her life may be more settled, but her writing is as sharp and funny as ever. This is her strongest book so far, a great one for those of us inexorably sliding into middle age carrying the same worries and insecurities we've always had.

Wow, No Thank You is the kind of book that makes me feel less alone. So other people also think this same type of crazy, messed up stuff? Thank you for making me feel less alone and less weird, Samantha Irby. Let’s have dinner.....I promise my credit card will work and I will pay! Her musings on home ownership were so spot on...I can’t blame my shady childhood, my lack of understanding boils down pretty much to laziness, but I can totally relate to her bewilderment of all the intricacies of home care. Her fascination with blogger lifestyle posts mirrors my own. I won’t actually look like that model if I buy this face product? Well, okay but maybe this time I will.....Samantha knows what I mean. I feel all the feels for her crazy mixed up stories!

I should probably preface this with I don't typically read essay collections and decided to start. I've read a couple recently and have decided that in general they are not for me.

With that said, Samantha Irby is an amazing writer. She is relatable and funny and made me laugh out loud. For the most part, the essays in here were great - very well-written and easy to read. She has a great sense of humor and makes you feel like you're reading about yourself. Irby is honest and refreshing and wrote things that people think but won't say out loud.

However, some essays were a little boring or went on just a little bit too long, and the book in general was a little unorganized. Some chapters felt like they were more a thread of tweets than a chapter in book.

I'd recommend this book to people who are fans of personal essay collections and fans of humor.

**Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group for providing me with an ARC in exchange from my honest review. [book:Wow, No Thank You.|49960031] is scheduled for release March 31, 2020.

Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby is a HOOT! This book caused me to emit some of the ugliest laughs I didn’t know my body was capable of producing.

I received this book from Netgalley as an ARC, and I am trying to get through my stack of TBR books while I am have so much free time. The problem is that I am just not a big of her style of writing. Instead of telling stories, I feel like I am just reading lists. Maybe this works better in blog form, but not so well in a book format.

The third installment in Samantha Irby's trilogy of deep-belly-laughter-inducing essays on her life as a queer, fat, awkward person navigating the world does not disappoint! After reading 'We're Never Meeting in Real Life' and 'Meaty,' I really didn't think she could make me laugh any harder, but I was (thankfully) so very wrong. One of my favorite things about this collection is she shares what the transition has been like as her work has received more attention and provided more opportunities (like writing for the Hulu show Shrill). Despite her foray into Hollywood, Irby's stories still come across as authentic and endearing and make me feel a little less alone in this wild, wild world.

***I received a time-limited digital copy of this title from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review***

Can I just say that this book had me physically laughing out loud, which is exactly what we ALL need to do right now? I adore Samantha Irby and this is actually the first book of hers that I have read. I assure you, it will not be my last. She is witty and very socially astute in an absolutely hilarious way. I enjoyed every word and will continue to slowly savor this title. So funny and so worth your time reading it. Two huge thumbs WAY up for this one!

Samantha Irby is an absolute gem. Not only are her essays laugh-out-loud hilarious, but she is always so unflinchingly honest and absolutely willing to expose what so many people would deem "unfeminine" -- she is a little gross, a little selfish, a little lazy, and absolutely still figuring out who she is even at 40 years old. While I did feel like Wow, No Thank You. was a little less tightly conceived than We Are Never Meeting In Real Life (it felt like there were a lot more "filler" essays here) I will read anything Irby writes, and I hope she will be doing so for many, many more years to come.

Samantha Irby has a knack for being extremely relatable while also making me super jealous that I'm not as funny or talented as her. Fans of Meaty and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life will not be disappointed. My personal favorite chapters were the ones about working on "Shrill" and navigating a book deal because these are things I'm very interested in and curious about and I really appreciate getting the low-down from a Regular Person in a self-deprecating way (I would also be very excited about a big office and stressed about what to put on the office kitchen grocery list!).

Samantha Irby delivers more hilarious and relatable stories of her life with a focus on aging. She’s now forty, married with stepchildren, questioning things like home ownership, and uses an entire day to prepare to leave the house for a night out.

In "girls gone mild", readers learn the hours of preparation that go into a night out:

“I used to party a lot. The only reason I stopped it because I got too old to do it right.”

“5:00 p.m.: it’s put-up-or-shut-up-time.
This is the absolutely latest I can cancel without pissing off my friends…
If I’ve put on a real bra and you pick up the phone to tell me some shit about a headache, I’ll meet you at the club with some Excedrin, bitch.”

In "hung up!" she muses on technology in a satirical and completely relatable way.

"late- 1900s time capsule" is my favorite essay in the collection! Irby reminisces on the music of her youth and gives her readers a special ‘90s mixtape complete with the personal reason behind each selection.
“Mixtapes were the love language of my youth. If you got one from me, that shit was as serious as a marriage proposal.”

"love and marriage" is a hilarious Q+A where Irby answers relationship questions and delivers gems like this: “I have to get over myself and let go of young-person shit that is irritating to me. If I’m too old for it, I don’t give a shit about it.”

"lesbian bed death" is a long list of “Sure, sex is fun, but have you….” and I felt some of these deep in my soul.

Irby also shares her time writing the pilot/pitching her memoir Meaty for TV, and the summer she spent in California writing for Lindy West’s hulu series (adapted from her book of the same title) Shrill.

Wow, No Thank You. is another strong essay collection full of heart and humor that are at times gross and almost always relatable.

I recommend these essays to readers who love humor, personal essays, and memoir.

Thanks to Vintage and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review. Wow, No Thank You. is scheduled for release on March 31, 2020.

Thanks, Netgalley & Vintage, for a free e-copy of this book!

If you liked Irby’s last two books (which I did!) then you will love this one. While you can definitely start with this book, I think it works best if you read them in order, just because she makes lots of little references to things which were discussed in detail in her past books: her traumatic childhood, her job at a veterinarian’s office, her college experiences, and lots of poop stories.

After living in city apartments her whole life, Irby has now moved to a Midwest small town to live with her wife and her step-children. She is now a freelance writer: she writes books, she’s a writer on Shrill, and she still has a blog in the year 2020. While she is insistent that she just spends 14 hours a day scrolling Twitter now that she doesn’t have an office job, we can all see that she is actually in a much more settled, comfortable place in her life now. She is doing great, even if she would never admit it with any type of sincerity!! This brings a slightly different tone to the book: Wow, No Thank You. is a balance of her ridiculous and relatable content about learning how to make friends in a new town, preparing for a night out when you have Crohn’s disease and chronic pain, and how much she unashamedly loved her phone, alongside stories about going to Hollywood with Abbi Jacobson to pitch the TV show version of her book or to work as a writer on Shrill.

This essay collection was perfect for this weird pandemic time where we are all sitting around the house using our phone too much. Right now, I don’t want to read a book about an ambitious person who aspired to be president since they were a toddler. I want to read a book about someone who had no goals, wrote a Myspace blog to get the attention of some guy, and then ended up with three books that she wrote in between episodes of Judge Mathis! This book is funny and comforting and sometimes gross and sometimes heartwarming. I will continue to read everything she writes.

So freaking hilarious! I highlighted so many phrases just so I could go back and reread them. It’s scary how similar our thoughts are. This book isn’t even out yet and I’m already waiting for her next collection of essays!

It's good to see that marriage hasn't softened Samantha Irby's writing too much! This book is just all VOICE, and it's voice I really enjoy reading. I read her previous book, and this book too is very misanthropic, very self-deprecating, and really leans into what is essentially body horror.

Nonetheless, I appreciate it. I love that she's the same age as me and we share so many cultural touchstones, but we're also different enough that reading her work gives me new perspectives. I think a good dose of misanthropy can be good for the soul, to remind us all that we're actually quite boring, and not to take anything too personally.

As with her previous book, it can be a lot to take, and I like it best when there's a hint of sincerity in among the jokes. And overall I'm more of a dick joke person than a poop joke person (I kind of believe we all fall into one category or the other), and there's really a lot more poop jokes in here than I usually care to read.

*** Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. ***

So funny! Bad dates, hosting book clubs, Samantha Irby has a crazy life. Wonderful, laugh out loud funny essays that will make you smile.

Fans of Samantha Irby will enjoy this new book of her essays. She writes about her book tours, her IBD, friends, family. Sardonic, self-deprecating, yet funny, wise, and compassionate.

I've been following Irby for several years, and I've enjoyed watching her career progress in various ways. With every book release, I find that I enjoy her essays more and more. I love her writing style and her sense of humor, but this book has been the most relatable for me. She talks about marriage, home ownership, and career changes, which mirrors the phase of life I'm currently in. I do think that Irby has the ability to make any circumstance of her life relatable to the reader, but I also know that I needed someone else to express my random questions about home repairs. If there's any distinct weakness in this book, it would be that a couple of the essays drag on for too long to the point that the humor is lost.

In Wow, No Thank You., Samantha Irby writes essays about adulthood, aging, marriage, moving from Chicago to lil 'ole Kalamazoo, freelancing and famous life. Her self-deprecating humor had me laughing with her versus at her, sometimes in public which garnered strange looks but ah well. I just continued chuckling and held the Kindle up as an explanation. From the very first chapter until the hilarious end, I nodded my head in agreement and said "me too, girl" aloud too many times to count.

Women nearing or in their 40s will most certainly relate. Do you randomly check your phone to see what others are saying in the Twitter streets? Is the Amazon Prime driver a regular to your mailing address? Do you have a bedroom television set? No? Just me and Samantha Irby? Be honest with yourselves. Let Wow, No Thank You. liberate and entertain you.

Happy Early Pub Day, Samantha Irby! Wow, No Thank You. will be available Tuesday, March 31.

LiteraryMarie

I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I love Samantha Irby’s sarcastic, self-deprecating sense of humor. Equal parts poignant, relatable, and hilarious, I loved this book and Irby’s truth-telling. Her voice is refreshing and honest. Do yourself a favor and read it.

This much buzzed about book is a short story collection about the author's life. I'm glad I read it so I can know what all the fuss is about but that's about it. It did have some humorous stories but this book was not for me. It was vulgar, depressing, and just not good. I found her un-movitation not interesting and so much of it was just gross. I wish I could have the time I spent reading it back.

Thank you to Netgalley for the free, advance copy.