Let’s all join hands and frantically get these last reviews in before noon tomorrow, shall we?
I like Aisha Tyler. I liked her onTalk Soup. I liked when they brought her in to Friends so they could have a black friend. I like her on Archer, which I don’t watch enough of. I love love love her podcast, Girl on Guy. I was super excited when she announced that she’d be hosing the return of Whose Line Is It Anyway?. She’s super funny, and even better, she’s really smart and geeky. She’d been talking about her book for a while on Girl on Guy and I was really looking forward to reading it. I wish I had gotten the audio version though.
Tyler ends Girl on Guy by asking her guest to share a self-inflicted wound. These are stories of things that are just bad and you have no one to blame but yourself. Wrecked credit, getting an STD twice from the same girl when you know it’s going to happen the second time, punched in the face by a jealous boyfriend… usually these are super embarrassing stories and the most cringe inducing part is that you can’t blame it on anyone else but yourself. These are the moments where you look back and wonder “What did I think was going to happen???” But hopefully they’ve made you a better person. Or not. Who cares, as long as it’s a good story.
Tyler turns her question on to herself for this book and creates a memoir of sorts where she retells her own self-inflicted wounds. Some are hysterical, some are learning experiences, some show her path to success. It’s a good mix, like anyone’s life should be. There are some that I sort of flipped through and others that I completely related to and took my time with. I think most people will find at least one story that they will cringe along with and think “Oh god… me too. I did this.”
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