In December, Marie Claire's online book club, #ReadWithMC, read Jenny Slate's 'Little Weirds.' Find out how readers felt about the book here.
"Feminism, ghosts, comedy, family, loneliness, animals, life. This book lives up to its name: short essays on what it means to be alive, written in one of the weirdest, most whimsical styles I’ve ever read. I have mixed feelings here because I think Jenny Slate is adorable and gentle and has some AMAZING insight in this book. However, some of this book went right over my head.
"I really enjoyed this book. I read it all while sitting alone in a cabin in the woods, and that seemed like the perfect atmosphere for such an intimate, tender, strange book. This is not your typical celebrity memoir, and I am sure you would be disappointed if that's your expectation. I think it’s hard to describe the concept when the title does such a good job.
Slate takes the reader through her journey to heal from heartbreak and deep sadness. She approaches discussions of love, friendship, wildness, and patriarchy in new, creative, strange ways. I loved the essays where she talked about her childhood. Throughout the collection, she paints her family and friends in a beautiful but realistic light.
I’m not surprised that this book has been polarizing, and I doubt that Slate would be surprised, either. It reminds me of an ongoing criticism of millennial humor (see: The 2017
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