Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? is a book that has sat on my TBR list for a very, very long time. Most celebrity memoirs are written in the same format and this book is no exception. Readers are given some of Mindy's childhood memories, we learn about the struggles she faced starting and then throughout her career, she shares some of her relationships (romantic and platonic), and then we just get to read her opinion on some matters that she feels are worth sharing with the readers.

Basically, if you read a lot of celebrity memoirs (like me) you get exactly what you expect from this book. So what it really comes down to in terms of enjoyment, is whether or not you like the author. The number one reason that this book sat on my TBR list for so long, despite the large amount of positive feedback I had heard, was because I've never watched The Office. (I have seen episodes of the Office but never really watched it like from beginning to end) I felt like a phony for wanting to read a book by Mindy Kaling without ever watching the show that essentially started her career. But this book just kept popping up all over lists of books for 20-somethings to read, and if there is one thing that I find more addicting than celebrity memoirs, its lists of books for ~insert category I fit into here~ to read.

So I finally read it. I enjoyed it. Mindy is very easy to relate to on a number of things. She discusses her career in a way that is general enough that someone who is unfamiliar with her work can enjoy it. I didn't have some sort of life changing moment while reading it like those lists suggested I might, but I did find it entertaining enough. Even her essays/stories on topics I was less interested in, were easy enough to read because of her writing style. Mindy is very opinionated on some pretty interesting things, and some of her essays were not for me, but overall I enjoyed the book. I will most likely be reading her other book, just not necessarily in a rush to go buy it tonight.

Would I recommend? Nope, but I wouldn't tell someone to NOT read it either.
Would I read again? Probably not. I might reference a few of her essays here and there, but I wouldn't read the book from start to finish again.