Little Weirds Jenny Slate

Little weirds 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. Little weirds by jenny slate is what we ll be reading over break. An amazon best book of november 2019. Jean garnett acquired jenny slate s essay collection little weirds in 2017 based on a 50 page writing sample.

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. 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. Amazon barnes noble local bookseller get weekly book recommendations. Postponed date tbd los angeles ca largo.

I m a fan of jenny slate s so i was really excited when a galley of her new book came in. This feels like a book that is trying way to hard to be literary and special. Tough times spur a popular stand up comedian and actor to dive deep into her own inimitable psyche. 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.

Jenny slate a lightning bolt you can shake hands with. And then i was so disappointed by the content. Reading jenny slate s little weirds is like digesting shakespearean sonnets. Slate s book of essays little weirds is a lot like that a collection of clever lines from a talented writer and.

Judging from the content of jenny slate s little weirds the inside of her mind is a fascinating if unusual place in this collage of essays stories dreams both night and day and pieces that defy easy categorization the actor and comedian invites readers to pay an extended visit one that will leave them enlightened moved and sometimes pleasantly puzzled. Author and comedian jenny slate is a little weird in a very good way. Order your copy of little weirds here.