Books of the week! (I'm back!)

Most of you will know these young talented women from television and youtube.

 

MIS-ADVENTURES OF A AWKWARD BLACK GIRL

By Issa Rae

" In the bestselling tradition of Sloan Crosley’s I Was Told There’d Be Cake and Mindy Kaling’s Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, a collection of humorous essays on what it’s like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits, and black as cool.

My name is “J” and I’m awkward—and black. Someone once told me those were the two worst things anyone could be. That someone was right. Where do I start?

Being an introvert in a world that glorifies cool isn’t easy. But when Issa Rae, the creator of the Shorty Award–winning hit series “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl,” is that introvert—whether she’s navigating love, work, friendships, or “rapping”—it sure is entertaining. Now, in this debut collection of essays written in her witty and self-deprecating voice, Rae covers everything from cybersexing in the early days of the Internet to deflecting unsolicited comments on weight gain, from navigating the perils of eating out alone and public displays of affection to learning to accept yourself—natural hair and all.

A reflection on her own unique experiences as a cyber pioneer yet universally appealing, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl is a book no one—awkward or cool, black, white, or other—will want to miss." GOODREADS

I first came into contact with this amazing woman through youtube, her web series 'The Mis-adventures of a Awkward Black Girl' had just started on it second season. I was forever a fan after the first episode. It was hilarious, down to earth and just plain awkward. I get the feeling that she was genuinely an awkward person and it was like looking at my life play out on the screen.  Every episode I was like, 'That is so true', 'That happened to me too'. 

When I heard she was writing a book the fan girl in me came out. I stalked its publishing day so hard if it was a person I would be in prison right now. When I heard she got picked up by HBO I felt proud, we don't even know each other and I was cheesing and applauding for her like I knew her from way back. I introduced her show to my friends and now we are basically the Issa Rae fan club based in Trinidad and Tobago. 

When I had finally recieved the book I treated each page like spun gold. It took me a month to finish. Books usually get read in a day by me, that is to tell you how I wanted to drag it out just for the hell of it. Her book is an amazing read and I believe that the fact that I watched her show before reading the book made it so. If I could meet her face to face I would tell her the god honest truth that she is my idol and I wish her the best in every endeavor she pursues in the future. 

On to the other amazing woman who has made my week day enjoyable. 

Also through Youtube this sarcastic woman was introduced to me. The trailer for her show 'The Mindy Project' was in my to watch section. It was a bitch trying to find the show on DVD but when I did, I bought every single CD. I laugh the hardest when I'm watching her show. Everything that comes out of her mouth is pure hysteria. 

"Mindy is a skilled OB/GYN and shares a practice with a few other doctors, none of whom make life any easier for her. JEREMY REED (British writer/comedian Ed Weeks) is the walking definition of total bad news. He not only shares a practice with Mindy, but sometimes her bed as well - despite her best efforts to resist. He is funny, self-absorbed and super sexy. In contrast, DANNY CASTELLANO (Chris Messina, "Damages") is a hothead and guys' guy who has a habit of stealing Mindy's patients. Danny criticizes her for everything, including her struggling love life and her lack of professionalism - even though it's obvious to everyone except Mindy that he secretly admires her work. His blue-collar childhood gives him a big chip on his shoulder, but he is a dedicated physician, which Mindy can't stand to admit because he's always getting on her case.
Rounding out the office staff are the receptionists - BETSY PUTCH (Zoe Jarman, "Huge"), young, earnest and easily excitable, who thinks the world of Mindy and is always trying to impress her; and SHAUNA DICANIO (newcomer Dana DeLorenzo), a self-assured Jersey Girl who is indifferent to Mindy, always knows where the cool party is and carries a poorly concealed torch for Danny.
Mindy is in constant communication with her beloved best friend from college, GWEN GRANDY (Anna Camp, "The Good Wife"), who also happens to be the governor's daughter. Gwen is a hilarious, sometimes too-blunt friend, and secretly a former carefree party girl (which only Mindy seems to remember). Although Gwen is now happily married to a financial analyst, with a six-year-old daughter, this lawyer-turned-Pilates mom remains squarely in Mindy's corner.
As Mindy attempts to get her career off the ground and meet a guy who passes her red flag test (no drug habits, no skinny jeans and no secret families, among others), only time will tell if she gets her romantic comedy ending."

"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" GOODREADS

This book is the only one I have read so far, it was so good I can't find it. Someone took it. Pure comedy, thats all I can say.