1/52 - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? - Mindy Kaling

I feel like Mindy Kaling is living the life that I really want to have. I wouldn't want to be a Tina Fey, Amy Poehler or a Kristen Wiig, but I sure would love to be rubbing elbows with them and generally breathing the same air in an office several floors below them.

That is what Mindy Kaling does and in this book, she writes about life, friendship, boys, family and work, stuff that a person like her can just get away with writing about. If a normal person like me wrote about that, it would just be a pathetic, narcissistic blog. Or a pathetic journal/diary. Fuck.

There are some funny parts, but there are some REALLY, laugh-out-loud on the bus funny parts that are worth buying the entire book. More than that, there are moments where I looked up and around and wished I could share the quotes and essays with. Like the one about the romantic comedies, or the one about the things boys should own/wear/do and the one where she hangs out with Amy Poehler.

Mindy Kaling is smart, funny, pretty, and a great writer. This book proves it. Most of all, she's real. She loves comedy, admires the people I admire and is unabashedly humble whilst being hilariously arrogant. She's who I should have grown up to be. Damn.

Anyway, one book out of 52 finished and done.

3/5