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My brown butter cupcakes are all dressed up and ready for afternoon tea!

I‘m conflicted about the tagged book. Mercado makes solid observations, she‘s self-aware, and she‘s often very funny, so I feel like I should love it—but y‘all, there‘s this VIBE I can‘t quite pin down. I think maybe it reminds me of those celebrity memoirs written specifically to shore up someone‘s personal brand and prove their comedic worth. Not BAD, but… #audiobaking

Mercado is witty, self-effacing, and self-aware. Her essays follow suit. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Heading to the beach and I‘ve resolved to actually finish this ARC (but not really an advance anymore)—so far a funny beach-read.
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So fresh in format/style and so laugh-out-loud funny in narrative and voice.

Enjoyed the first half more than the second half. I liked listening to the author read her essays and the 2000s nostalgia. Some parts were snort out loud funny, others were strange.

#booked2021

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#mintgreen #12coloursofdecember #wintergames #wintergames2020 #teamreadnosedreindeer @StayCurious December 21
11 points

The first one that I had to use a non-holiday book! Especially scary that these have all been owned digital books 📚🤫

I‘ve got a super fun event tomorrow! Lots of jokes and holiday fun. I‘m going to spend today highlighting some of the amazing authors who are joining me for it.

Mia is a humorist and essayist whose collection literally made me laugh out loud. Her book would be amazing for any Midwestern millennial in your life.

Link with more info/registration: https://www.prairielights.com/live/midwest-writers-virtual-holiday-potluck

#TrueStory

I‘m here for this essay.

It wasn't THAT weird; I'm way weirder 🙃
But I liked this short little collection of essays in the vein of Samantha Irby but nowhere near as funny. Enjoyable millennial-type observations on life, being a woman, growing up in the Midwest and race. The #audiobook is read by the author which was good!

Never before have I felt so seen and so attacked by a single sentence.

“The idea of things has always been much more exciting to me, a person who loves to say (he) is going to do a thing without actually having to do the thing.”

The struggle is real.

I‘m gonna need life to chill out. This TBR stack is not gonna read itself!

(I read ‘To Kill A Mockingbird‘ every year. I suppose it‘s not a true TBR.)

Mia Mercado writes humorous personal essays about life: her childhood, the realities of being a woman, life as a Millennial, being racially ambiguous and more. It‘s quite uneven and some of the pieces were hard for me (a Gen-Xer) to relate to, but the funny parts were truly funny enough for me to give this a soft pick. The childhood poop story is a standout.

Bit of a switch from the last few books I‘ve read. I enjoy essay type books like this very much. This one is alright but still entertaining so far.

I am so spoiled with #bookmail today! Soubhi, Helen, thank you so much! I‘m so excited for these. ☺️

Now that is an opening line to a book!

#QuaranTimeToRead

Not related to this book (it is good so far), but I‘m not a fan of this new Libby interface... Anyone else dislike it? #libby #libbyapp