Little Weirds Jenny Slate Review

Little weirds jenny slate review. Prior to discovering little weirds on edelweiss at which point i legit let out a little squeal and did a happy happy butt dance on my office chair my knowledge about actor comedian jenny slate could be summed up thusly. Little weirds is made up of micro essays sketches and fairy sized windows into slate s mind. 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.

Things about me 2011 intriguing inner world raindrops are wet water bloops that fall unexpectedly from the sky and brassieres are cotton cup bags that respectable ladies are obliged to don before heading out to dinner. Little weirds by jenny slate. Her book little weirds came out this month shortly after her netflix special stage fright and an engagement announcement. The collection hovers around a time in slate s life when being alive became joyless painful and lonely in the worst way.

An amazon best book of november 2019. What when where and accessibility. 1 she portrayed mona lisa saperstein with brilliance and aplomb on one of my all time favorite sitcoms parks recreatopn. Jenny slate is overwhelmed and very sweet.

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. Actor comedian and writer jenny slate s little weirds a vulnerable and tender collection of offbeat essays explores friendship self love divorce freedom and just being a total weirdo christina anthony reviews. 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. Little weirds by jenny slate was a case of the book not living up to the beautiful cover.

This feels like a book that is trying way to hard to be literary and special. Jenny slate s little weirds to see the world through comedian jenny slate s eyes is to see it as though for the first time shimmering with strangeness and possibility. And then i was so disappointed by the content. In slate s marcel the shell with shoes on.

Jenny slate and jean garnett the slate book review author editor conversation.