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fun. A delightful collection of essays, Many I completely appreciate, and not just for the humor, Jenny Allen's heartfelt and brave sharing of personal experiences complements the laughter she inspires, I was expecting more from this book, It started off very well, The essay on not being able to sleep was hilarious, Toward the middle of the book, it dropped off a bit, There were some funny essays, but not enough to make you want to keep reading, This book is ok, not great just ok, Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the ARC of this book in return for my honest review, I expected more from this given that I randomly picked one rantingstory and it resonates with me,

Borrowed the book and onlyof the stories had me nodding my head, The rest were written pretty much similar to a personal blog writing style it's better if you know the author and what's going on in her head so that you can follow better.


Disappointed. I honestly couldnt finish it, A lot of this feels like it can be reduced to “old lady yells at clouds”, The titular essay is mostly complaining about how language has changed and she doesnt like it, which is stupidly elitist, What really chapped my ass was the like about wanting Sean Connery to play Bind forever because the other actors who have played him “seem a little gay”.
. . because theres something wrong with being LGBTQ Because the actors playing Bond have to be available for her personal sexual fantasies Either way, gross, Shes got a way with words, but Im not interested in reading someone complain about things from a place of profound privilege, Heres something that really should stop: humble bragging about living in Manhattan, This book is funny and sad, I felt like Jenny said what I feel about many things, Especially the Subaru, except mine is only mine part time and the color of Subaru I've mistakenly tried to enter may be called cranberry, here in Ithaca, So much that now I say "hello Subaru!" More than I can count, Great reflection on aging unwillingly,
Jenny Allen is a whacky writer and this book was such a pleasure to read, Her mental meanderings are entertaining yet familiar, and I find it so comforting to read a train of thought Ive had myself, I particularly loved the story “Speak, Memory” in this regard, I related for myself during some stories, and for my mother, who has been through divorce and is navigating the world anew after decades of being one of two shakers, during others.
Throughout, there is a humorous and graceful approach to the decidedly ungraceful situations life sometimes puts us in, This collection of short essays is a bit mystifying,   There were a few, mainly memoirtype, very funny essays about the author's life but then there were pieces added in that were random and not humorous at all.
  There were a few, including an Elmer Fudd therapy session, that I skimmed over altogether,   I really wish the whole book would have just been anecdotes from the author's life and she would have left out the more

slapstick writing,   I received this digital ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review,   This collection of essays views life through Jenny Allen's middleaged lens, Taking on everything from attempting a craft project to escorting an aging father to the doctor to life after divorce, the author shares her humorous, "life will go on" attitude with readers.
Ask the Answer Lady helps guide a newly divorced woman through her feelings about the new girlfriend, My Gathas are a riff on meditation verses with modern examples, Take My House Please is an accounting of an old house's aches and pains, The otheressays tackle other modern life surprises, woes, and idiosyncrasies in the author's wry, sometimes mocking, voice, Hilariously funny! Author was real and "down to earth", Great book just to sit down and laugh with,
I received this book thru Netgalley, but it had no bearing on the rating I gave it, I'm dithering between.andfor Jenny Allen's humorous and often for me, at least spoton essays on Being a Woman of a Certain Age, Some folks will compare this to Nora Ephron's marvelous I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK and I can see why, But the tone is completely different, Ephron writes in a more languid tone, as if she and the reader were chatting on a porch while sipping white wine, In WOULD EVERYBODY PLEASE STOP Allen flings her sentences and thoughts, She reminds me of that mesmerizing guest you meet at a party who borders on being obnoxious but stops just short,

At her best, Allen is LOL hilarious as in "Can I Have Your Errands" when she muses on the message men in finance send out by wearing suspenders: "I'm the sort of fellow whose pants will never fall down, so you can trust me with your money" And in "Scary Stories for GrownUps" which every person over the age ofwill delight in, especially grandparents.


Other essays seem tacked on, Often in this slim book I had the sense Allen was pressed for three or four more entries and phoned them in, That's a shame because when her writing is at its best, she's charming and entertaining,

Allen's collection of reflections is highly variable, Some stories, especially those at the beginning of the book, were so banal "I like food, I lose things all the time, my exhusband is mean, people need to stop being so annoying".
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Other stories were bizarre, original and humourdriven, Some missed the mark for me that entry imagining Elmer Fud in therapy Tawk Thewapy what But others were entertaining and I appreciated the originality Scary Stories for Grownups.


Finally, some stories about experiences in Allen's life were genuinely interesting and others could learn from them, such a Swagland, a behindthescenes look at the Sundance Film Festival, or Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow about purchasing and wearing wigs during chemotherapy treatment.


The overall sense from this collection is one of confusion, The book tries to be too many different things and ends up failing to be very good at anything, Sloane Crosley's essays are more intricate and thoughtful, Jenny Lawson's books are more honest and interesting in their eccentricities, B. J. Novak and David Sedaris do short, hilarious stories much better, fiction and nonfiction respectively,

Some of the reflections on life were really good, but, as the title implies, there were lots of bad ideas in this book too, Jenny Allen is hilarious, and her new collection of essays proves it, Would Everybody Please Stop kept me laughing at times with tears streaming down my face from the time I picked it up until I finished it all in one sitting.
A few of the essays are more serious, addressing topics relevant to todays world, but every essay is outstanding, I loved each and every one which rarely happens to me when reading a compilation such as this one, My favorite hands down was “How to TieDye” where she decides she has free time while staying in a motel during a snow storm and starts to tiedye a bunch of shirts.
The project goes hilariously awry, I enjoyed it so much that as I was writing this review I had to go back and read it again, “Swagland”, “Take My House, Please”, and “My Gratitudes” are not far behind, I also really liked “My New Feminist Cop Show” which I truly appreciated because the issues she raises are ones I have repeatedly mentioned to my husband while watching shows with female detectives.
Her essay on this topic is spot on, I also loved “I Have to Go Now” because that is exactly what happens to me when we decide to stay at someones home instead of in a hotel.
I highly recommend Would Everybody Please Stop Thanks to NetGalley and Farrar, Strauss, Giroux for the chance to read this ARC in exchange for an honest review,
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