“I’m the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up
really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my
expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded.” Truth.
16.14 Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
I am not a big fan of memoirs, - and if I do give you my
reading time you better have done something pretty nasty to the Nazis – in
general I’m not big on non-fiction, but this is why I joined a book club -
forced expanding of my horizons.
I was excited for this book, it has been a long, hot summer
and I was looking forward to some laughs. Unfortunately, I didn’t find them.
While I’m truly trying to expand, I am a bit of a stickler about one thing in
my reading: It should have purpose. Simply put, I didn’t find any here. There
was barely a structure. A few of the essays were cute and might have gone
somewhere but most seemed like starts without ends, and honestly seemed a bit
like first drafts.
Mindy is most famous for her work on The Office, a show I
enjoy, yet all that I learned from her writing of her experience was that she
liked her co-writers and stole office supplies from set - these seem like no
brainers as opposed to revelations to me. I don't work in show business, nor am
I a comedy writer, so maybe the insight was lost on me... And as for the rest, I think I may just be too old. In high school I worried what people were doing without me as well, but 20 years after the fact, not so much.
