Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
By Mindy Kaling
Publication Year: 2011
Type: Non-fiction
Genre: memoir, comedy
Read on 2019-06-30
View additional specs on this book in Muhan’s 2019 Reading Survey ➞
★★★★★
Confession: I listened to the audiobook in a single day while procrastinating not only my law take-home midterm but also reading critically acclaimed A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry which my sister picked for our inaugural bookclub book of the month.
It’s 2019 and I honestly forget sometimes that Mindy Kaling was one of the people who literally created The Office. This book isn’t really about The Office but it’s funny and well-written and loveable like The Office, and made for a timely reminder that The Office was thankfully not entirely a project by white comedy dudes.
I like that Mindy talks about being Indian and daughter to powerhouse immigrants and chubby and living in New York in her early twenties because these are all highly relatable. I also like that her audiobook was only like 5 hours long so between my commutes and lunch break and making ramen when I finally got home at 10pm, I’d finished the whole thing and become one step closer to being a Stephen King-esque reading maniac.
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