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loved this memoir! It's hilarious, touching and well written, I hadn't heard of Jessi Klein before but I had read good reviews of her book and it truly did not disappoint! I recommend it highly!

I forgot to mention that I loved Jessi's comment about the acronym FOMO which stands for Fear Of Missing Out.
This means that you think other people are having more fun than you and you wish you were doing what they did, But when get there you realize it's not that great after all see page, I hope to remember that if I'm envious of someone else's life, I thoroughly enjoyed this memoir/collection of comedic essays from Jessi Klien, Klien talks about what it's like growing up a Tomboy, following your dreams, spending countless hours shopping for a wedding dress and hating yourself for being 'that person' and feeling like dogshit at the Emmys.

While we don't agree on baths whole chapter on hating baths that I read while in the tub, we do agree on being called Ma'am.
And Jessi if you ever read this, I did get the Miss Jackson reference and thought "fuck, the grocery store clerk wasn't being a jerk".

I am officially a Ma'am, Speaking as a true tomman a hardcore tomboy as a kid who is still not girly at, who didn't wear any makeup at all until after, who's straight and happily married to a man and would happily drop all external trappings of femininity if I wouldn't feel like a freak, I loved Jessi's accounting of herself as one.
But she exaggerates, because despite the typical comedienne selfmocking I'm looking at you, gorgeous Tina Fey, she is stunningly attractive and appears to be quite feminine.
True tommen like me never dated much, have no idea how to flirt, and have a hard time being anything other than buddies with men and yet Jessi seems to have dated dozens and dozens of men, who came out of the woodwork to pursue her.
So that bothered me. But otherwise she is very funny, very smart, very perceptive, and brutally honest, I couldn't put it down, So funny, sharp, and honest there is literally no way you will not love this book, Unless you are awful and then you should stay away from me, comedians writing books about their life in their own funny way are a dime a dozen, I've read a bunch but skip another bunch because they can be so self promoting and dishonest in the form of exaggeration in that they make themselves look a certain way I get that memoirs can be the same but.
. still However when one is done in a way even when I can't relate to the rich or famous lifestyle that is open and vulnerable yet funny and unique to their own style I DIG IT.
This was one of those, There wasn't anything spectacular about it but I Jessi Klein who i hadn't ever heard of before the book was entertaining and smart, but not overly so.
She wrote a lot about her life being a girl who wasn't a girlygirl, who didn't get boy crazy when everyone else was, who didn't develop till later who didn't get a real relationship until her's and when she did she crashed hard and went through angst and sadness and imaginary physical ailments.
She talked a little about her dad who influenced some of her decisions like what school to go for or to turn down a job to work with David Letterman.
She also talked about finding the guy she married, how that wedding almost didn't happen and the process of IVF,

So hilarious, so relatable, Bonus: this was

an audiobook and she narrates, which I think makes it all the better, She is so selfeffacing and unafraid, She'd say something like "oh, and there was this one asshole who was doing assholeish thing" and "that asshole was me, " And it was absolutely something I would do/have done, Many times I desperately wished I had a friend beside me I could grab onto and say, "OMG! listen to this!" Some women keep a collection of shoes under their desks at work so they can quickly change from heels to flats.
I am not one of those women, Keeping my shoes under my desk would result in a Pigpenlike hovering stink cloud stretching clear to the copy machine, Now that I'm in my thirties I've had to accept some hard realities about myself, and the fact that my feet stink like cheese left out on a sun porch is one of them.


Thus, the best gift Jessi Klein gave me in her memoir You'll Grow Out of It is the vocabulary to talk about my identity as a woman with stinky feet.


As she explains, there are two kinds of women in this world: wolves and poodles, Poodles are those women who are always effortlessly feminine, who exude sunshine from their bronzed, opaque skin and rosy fragrance as if they are potpourri sachets.
That woman in your office whose gauzy blouse is still completely unwrinkled at:Poodle,

Then, there are the rest of usthe wolves, As Klein puts it, “Wolves sweat a lot, ” It's not that wolves can't be pretty, it's just that it takes a lot of elbow grease to create a good look,

The whole time I listened to that chapter, I felt like holding my hands up in rapture and hollering, “Preach!” Finally hearing another woman give voice to thoughts that have been knocking around in my head for years was.
. . cathartic. Have you ever felt like you didn't quite know how to be a girl, even though you are one Jessi Klein gets it, and she turns it into something you can laugh about.


As with most memoirs and essay collections, not every chapter resonated so deeply with me, Some of the later stories about her dating and married life come across a bit whiny and selfindulgent, Klein and her husband had a long and difficult path to marriage, neither of them sure at times that they were ready to commit.
That's a common experience, certainly, but when she started making sweeping generalizations about “all guys” freaking out before getting married, I had to raise a skeptical eyebrow.
Maybe Adam will morph into a commitmentphobe any day now and I'll be proven wrong here, but he proposed seven weeks after meeting me.
. . and that was six years ago, . . soo not all guys, okay And now he's stuck with his wolf wife and her stinky cheese feet FOREVER!

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readingwithhippos. com I was unfamiliar with comedy writer and stand up comedian Jessi Klein prior to this, but I grabbed it on a friends recommendation.
Humorous personal stories are an audio dream, Klein amuses with essays about female expectations both general and specific, her comedy career, and fertility struggles, My favorite essay was “Get the Epidural, ” I wish I hadnt waited until hourfor mine, This collection was just what I needed,

By the way: Im so over reviews stating that an author is oblivious to her/his privilege as if it is something that has to be blatantly addressed.
Everyone deserves to tell their story, Good freaking grief. Jessi Kleins new compilation of essays is a great addition to the growing collection of books by famous female comedians, From beginning to end, she writes about her life and her ever present need/struggle to fit in, Her internal battle about her life and dreams versus her familys dreams for her occupied a substantial part of her life until she finally decided to throw off the strictures of her upbringing and follow her own path.


Some of the stories deal with this internal battle, I didnt enjoy those as much though Connie which deals with her therapist was very funny, Others address topics I found a lot funnier like shopping for a wedding dress and taking a bath, I am totally with her on disliking baths and finding no relaxation from taking one, My favorite chapters were Maam where she discusses the difference in being called maam and miss and Get the Epidural because I agreed with every aspect of it and it was laugh odd loud hilarious.
The Bachelor was also hysterical particularly the ending, and I may have to start watching that show based on that section of the book.


I thoroughly enjoyed this book and was very glad to have read it, Thanks to Shelf Awareness and Grand Central Publishing for this ARC in exchange for an honest review,
I received an advance copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review,

In the lastyears, there has been a real comedy memoir boom, I myself have probably read at least two dozen, if not more, A lot of these were written by women, Off the top of my head, here are some female comedians who have written memoirs: Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Samantha Bee, Tig Notaro, Julie Klausner, Sarah Thyre, Merrill Markoe, Jen Kirkman, Sarah Silverman, Aisha Tyler, Rachel Dratch, Allie Brosh.
The Chelsea Handler/Sarah Colonna/Heather McDonald group has a few between them and lets not forget about Caitlin Moran, Jenny Lawson, Jen Lancaster, Laurie Notaro, Susan Jane Gilman, or Sloane Crosley.


The field is CROWDED, is what Im saying,

After a while it becomes hard to judge them on their own merits, in a way, The question becomes less “Is this good” and more “Is this better than the seventyseven similar books that Ive read” In this case, the answer is:

A little, maybe

Jessi Klein is undoubtedly a talented, funny writer.
In some instances she offers an unexplored perspective of being an “adult tomboy”, which I liked a lot, However, to me that was really the only thing that set her book apart at all from the sea of funny memoirs were currently drowning in.


I guess we end up with what youd call a “soft recommend”, Youll probably enjoy it well enough if you read it, and who knows, maybe her experiences will resonate more with you than they did me and youll fall in love with it.
But it probably wont be forefront in my mind when someones asking for comedy suggestions,

TL:DR Jessi Klein's collection is funny, but not quite funny enough to stand out from the crowd,.
After this recent carnival of an election, I was depressed, searching the library for the last unreadbyme David Sedaris book for some humorous escapism.
Unfortunately, they didn't have the Sedaris book I was seeking, but I did find this book by Jessi Klein in the same "Humor" section.


Jessi Klein, whose name I didn't previously know, is a comedy writer and a standup comedian, so I approached these essays with that attitude, that she was going to make me laugh.
Essay after essay, I certainly wasn't laughing, and, to tell you the truth, I was becoming more depressed, There's a lot of sadness and disappointment here, a lot of what I wasn't expecting or looking for, I was hoping for a David Sedaris feel, and I didn't get it,

However, I made it through to the end, after considering putting the book down several times, It's hard to explain. The writing is very good, which is always my first "requirement, " Also, she's honest, and that is always appealing, But, like I've already mentioned, a lot of the material feels sad, mixed with a handful of great oneliners and some funny observations, She's fairly explicit about things we do in the bathroom, and that's always been a personal turnoff for me, Plus, I really don't think she and I view most things in a similar way,

I'm glad I didn't give up, though, because my two favorite essays: "How I Became a Comedian" and "Get the Epidural" were at the end.
They were thought provoking and humorous essays, so I did finish the book on a positive note,

All in all, kind of a mixed bag for me, INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER! YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT hilariously, and candidly, explores the journey of the twentyfirst century woman.


As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Jessi Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity.


In YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT, Klein offers through an incisive collection of reallife stories a relentlessly funny yet poignant take on a variety of topics she has experienced along her strange journey to womanhood and beyond.
These include her "transformation from Pippi Longstockingesque tomboy to areyoualesbianorwhat tom man," attempting to find watchable porn, and identifying the difference between being called "ma'am" and "miss" "Miss" sounds like you weigh ninetynine pounds.


Raw, relatable, and consistently hilarious, YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT is a oneofakind book by a singular and irresistible comic voice, “I do not intend this in any way to be an advice book, but if there happen to be any young women reading this who have an iota of desire to glean anything from my experience, let it be this: When you encounter a man wearing loafers with no socks, run.
I once heard that the late Tim Russert also believed that a sockless man is not to be trusted, which means it is definitely true.
”Jessi Klein

I openly admit that I had no idea who Jessi Klein was when I dutifully put myself on the library list to be first to listen to the audible book.
I was merely following Kirkus recommendation to read this book, as it was a “mustbuy, ” I am so glad I did! I laughed so hard, mostly out loud, and so did friends and family that I subjected to the book when they jumped into my car or were in hearing distance of my portable speaker.
The ambiguity of Kleins book is just like her improv standup: it falls somewhere in between a memoir and essays, a mixed bag of anecdotes that follow no linear timeline.


Im having a hard time pegging my favorite chapters, one of which is “The Cad," quoted above, which was both parts hilarious and insightful regarding relationships and womens standard about men.
Another one was “Poodle vs, Wolf,” a hilarious analysis on the two categories that women fall under, which is something Ive often found myself wondering, especially when I was bra shopping with a friend, and her jaw dropped when I didnt buy a matching panty and bra set.
Im the utilitarian bra consumer who buys the basic colors necessary for the year to matcheverything, Clearly Im a wolf.

So Im going to have to side with Kirkus on this one, It is a mustread and/or mustbuy, Ill leave that up to you, .