Little Weirds By Jenny Slate

Little weirds by jenny slate. It s different enough from ordinary english that it takes your brain a few very long sentences to adjust to its sweet flowery prose. Jean garnett acquired jenny slate s essay collection little weirds in 2017 based on a 50 page writing sample. The collection was finished last winter after a four day editing session at. Little weirds by jenny slate pdf read little weirds by jenny slate hello and welcome to my book.

Comedian jenny slate s little weirds is just not weird enough the stand up comic s essays have soft and lovely moments steering readers toward finding their own vulnerabilities. An amazon best book of november 2019. She can do stand up. I wanted to read this book after seeing her talk about it in an interview.

Author and comedian jenny slate is a little weird in a very good way. Slate s voice remains an eccentric and powerful central force as she comments on politics patriarchy and her personal life time she can act. Tough times spur a popular stand up comedian and actor to dive deep into her own inimitable psyche. Nylon reading jenny slate s little weirds is like digesting shakespearean sonnets.

Her aptly named collection of personal essays little weirds gives readers a glimpse into her strangely funny and tender magically delicious mind divorced and broken hearted slate returns to her childhood home in massachusetts an old house haunted by the ghost of a forlorn sea. It s different enough from ordinary english that it takes your brain a few very long sentences to adjust to its sweet flowery prose. I m a fan of jenny slate s so i was really excited when a galley of her new book came in. Inside you will find the smell of honeysuckle heartbreak a french kissing rabbit a haunted house death a vagina singing sad old songs young geraniums in an ancient castle birth a dog who appears in dreams as a spiritual guide divorce electromagnetic energy fields.

Slate gets vulnerable in little weirds a memoir that touches on her first marriage her post election anxiety and new beginnings. This feels like a book that is trying way to hard to be literary and special. Amazon barnes noble local bookseller get weekly book recommendations. Reading jenny slate s little weirds is like digesting shakespearean sonnets.

Little weirds by jenny slate was a case of the book not living up to the beautiful cover. Jenny slate can write too. Little weirds is a super quirky collection of essays and contains what a lot of people would likely say is nonsense but i enjoyed it because it s mostly light and memoir like.