Title: Why Not Me? 

Author: Mindy Kaling

Quick Summary: Follow up to her first book, Kaling, now the creator, writer and star of her own sitcom, shares funny experiences with her family and friends and navigating Hollywood as only she can.

Very quick, no surprises. She covers all the stuff I expected she would: work, love life, family and a few funny Hollywood stories in between. All of her favorite friends are here! Her Mentor! Her soup snake, B.J. Novak.  She’s honest, too, sharing her thoughts around announcing the Emmy nominations and coming to the realization she wouldn’t be on that list. It was an honest moment that she could have blown off as “whatever” but she shares the panic, sadness that comes with not getting what you didn’t realize you wanted.

This was a lot of fun to read. What needs to be recognized in awesome chicks like Mindy is the hard work they do to get to where they are (actually the hard work memoir is her first one) vs the idiot celebrities who are famous for no good reason.

In the book Kaling quotes Holden Caulfield. Cheesy, yes, but this is feeling I often have with favorite authors.

Just one coffee date. One happy hour, it’s all I ask. Mindy is definitey in this category. BTW, this section, Soup Snakes, is about B.J. They are soup snakes, and I suppose if you were a fan of “The Office” you would get the reference.

Respect the women who have worked their butts off to get where they are and have what they have. This girl’s work schedule is insane. She told me so in this book.

4 stars. Recommend? Yes to Mindy Project or Office fans, to women of immigrant parents, to fans of funny women and funny memoirs. People who have read and enjoyed Bossypants, Yes Please or others like that.

This is review #3. How am I doing? Harder than I thought it would be to do. Maybe I should read less.