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3.5
funny lighthearted fast-paced

This was a much better choice for 5am dog walks than my previous audiobook - snappy and funny! I read Meaty last year which was okay but a bit bogged down in 2010 humour. This one is better, but the first few essays didn’t win me over, it took me a few to warm up to Irby’s humour. She’s very self-deprecating and ‘adulting is so hard’, but I still enjoyed her frankness about dating and living with chronic illness. If you like toilet humour (honestly I love a funny poop story), you’ll enjoy this collection. Sometimes she does take the joke too far though - like I would find a joke or anecdote funny but then she’d keep it going, trying to make it quirkier and it’d lose its charm. But overall, made me laugh and I’ll still pick up her other two collections at some point!