Published by Crown Archetype; November 1, 2011
Hardcover, 222 pages
Borrowed from library
Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck–impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence “Can I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear I’ll shut up about it?”
Perhaps you want to know what Mindy thinks makes a great best friend (someone who will fill your prescription in the middle of the night), or what makes a great guy (one who is aware of all elderly people in any room at any time and acts accordingly), or what is the perfect amount of fame (so famous you can never get convicted of murder in a court of law), or how to maintain a trim figure (you will not find that information in these pages). If so, you’ve come to the right book, mostly!
In Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, Mindy invites readers on a tour of her life and her unscientific observations on romance, friendship, and Hollywood, with several conveniently placed stopping points for you to run errands and make phone calls. Mindy Kaling really is just a Girl Next Door—not so much literally anywhere in the continental United States, but definitely if you live in India or Sri Lanka.
- Description from Goodreads.com
I'm never sure how to review a memoir so I tend to not do them but this book was just too funny not to share with you!
I've loved Mindy ever since I found her on Twitter. She's a bit cynical, a bit sarcastic but overall, just a very funny, very lovable person. I watched a few episodes of The Mindy Project and remember laughing so hard by stomach ached like crazy. And that's what happened again with this book! Mindy is hilarious and her voice is distinct. So even though she lives in Hollywood and is basically Twitter royalty, Mindy is able to allow herself to connect to the reader.
I think I'm going to have to do a Quote Madness for this book. There are too many great quotes that it would be a shame for me to not to make note of them.
One last thing, Mindy, will you be my best friend? Please?
