Zach Zimmerman bringing back comedy essays in his own way. 

I really wanted to like this, but most of the humor just fell flat to me. This was my first by Zimmerman, so I think a huge part of it, is just me. The writing style felt choppy, and honestly would have been better as blog posts, or even just reframed better. 

I did enjoy the hard hitting parts of his essays; the death of his friend, the perspective his mom went through during Covid, and about his father. 

I didn't grow up in a religious household, so I will never relate to the religous trauma that comes surrounding the forces of coming out, and the like. And that's ok. 

Shoutout for him including Dunkin in his acknowledgements, that's a whole mood. *sips my Dunkin iced coffee*

Thank you to NetGalley, Zach Zimmerman and Chronicle Books LLC. 

representation // Zach Zimmerman is gay, multiple people mentioned are queer

tw // mentions of homophobia, transphobia/trans erasure, religious bigotry, body-shaming, infidelity, break-ups 

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I think this would be higher if I had been paying more attention, but I did like it and thought it was really funny

Funny and scandalous and unapologetic! There were so many quotable moments in this book or moments where my jaw just DROPPED. But I can't remember what any of them are because I listened to this when I was not entirely sane. Some parts of the book were weird in audiobook format, but that's not exactly uncommon. 

Quick and funny, not groundbreaking but it doesn't need to be