"Because to love someone ridiculous is to understand something deep and true about the world. That up close it makes no sense. Those of you who choose"Because to love someone ridiculous is to understand something deep and true about the world. That up close it makes no sense. Those of you who choose sensible people may feel secure, but I think you water your wine; the wonder of life is in its small absurdities, so easily overlooked. And if you have not shared somebody's tilted view of the horizon (which is the actual world), tell me: what have you really seen?"...more
I have a friend who’s been roommates with her older sister for years in New York, where they live with a pug named Velvet who has a meme Instagram accI have a friend who’s been roommates with her older sister for years in New York, where they live with a pug named Velvet who has a meme Instagram account and gets wheeled around in a stroller. So when I first read the description of this novel about an Internet-obsessed twenty-something whose sister moves into her Brooklyn apartment and adopts a three-legged dog named Amy Klobuchar, I wondered how long Alexandra Tanner had been spying on the people in my life. This is not the only uncanny similarity; I now find myself constantly wanting to interrupt a friend's funny story to say That is literally a scene in this novel Worry. Which begs the eternal question: Does art imitate life? Or does life imitate Worry?
Alexandra Tanner has all ten fingers on the pulse of the zeitgeist; her realism gets down to the grittiest physical and emotional details of our cultural landscape. But the realest part of this novel is the relationship between the two sisters, Jules and Poppy, and Tanner is at her finest when depicting the small moments that define their relationship—from an argument about a paper towel left on the floor to indecision about proper word choice in an apologetic text to the petty ways they wound each other just because they know how to better than anyone else.Â
Worry is a novel for everyone who’s ever had a sister or wondered what it’s like to have one. And speaking as someone who has two—an older and a younger—it’s quite a revealing portrait. I’ve been both Jules and Poppy at different points in my life, and from the opening scenes of Worry, I saw the complex, messy, and often hilarious experience of sisterhood reflected back at me. Jules, Poppy, and Amy Klobuchar are flesh-and-blood characters who now live in my head rent-free, but hey—they’re actually pretty good roommates!!...more
He gets a little "old man yells at cloud" at times but love the insight into his life and how his diaries feed into his essays. Some very funny momentHe gets a little "old man yells at cloud" at times but love the insight into his life and how his diaries feed into his essays. Some very funny moments and I love the story behind having a second narrator on the audiobook (she's great), which he explains in the opening section. Thanks to Libro.fm for the advanced listening copy!...more
This is probably the funniest celebrity memoir I've ever read. The audio is a must--she performs a full-on 20-minute musical in one of the chapters.This is probably the funniest celebrity memoir I've ever read. The audio is a must--she performs a full-on 20-minute musical in one of the chapters....more
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