· Basically, Little Weirds is performance art in high-calibre prose * Washington Post * [An] exuberant essay collection Jenny Slate is a writer of tender prose-- Hephzibah Anderson * Guardian * A delight to read. It's a collection of beautiful, hilarious, genuine essays and really is meant for times when you feel heavy I couldn't help 5/5(2). LITTLE WEIRDS. by Jenny Slate. BUY NOW FROM. AMAZON Slate seems to fit so comfortably inside the poetic realms of her impressive imagination that she has no need to abandon them, not even when she is rebuking the pernicious ugliness of male patriarchy, another element that has heavily impacted her life. Author: Jenny Slate. An Amazon Best Book of November Author and comedian Jenny Slate is a little weird (in a very good way). Her aptly named collection of personal essays, Little Weirds, gives readers a glimpse into her strangely funny and tender, magically delicious www.doorway.rued and broken-hearted, Slate returns to her childhood home in Massachusetts—an old house haunted by the ghost of a forlorn sea /5(K).
I like Jenny Slate as a person and enjoy her standup comedy and voiceover work. I wanted to read this book after seeing her talk about it in an interview. Little Weirds is a super quirky collection of essays and contains what a lot of people would likely say is nonsense, but I enjoyed it because it's mostly light and memoir-like. Little Weirds () is a collection of personal essays by Jenny Slate, a comedian who plays with language and perception to present a unique view of the www.doorway.ru combines stories, personal essays, recollections of dreams, and other short snippets of language that are combined into a whimsical and imaginative rendering of the inside of the actress and comedian's bizarre mind. Listen Free to Little Weirds audiobook by Jenny Slate with a 30 Day Free Trial! Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet and iOS and Android devices.
"Reading Jenny Slate's Little Weirds is like digesting Shakespearean sonnets: It's different enough from ordinary English that it takes your brain a few, very-long sentences to adjust to its sweet, flowery prose. But once you've recalibrated, the actress/comedian's book becomes a dreamy dessert for the eyeballs that uses playful language to express deep sentiments about heartbreak, anger, wonder and friendship."―. Review: Little Weirds by Jenny Slate. Jenny Slate is overwhelmed, and very sweet. Her book Little Weirds came out this month shortly after her Netflix special, “Stage Fright,” and an engagement announcement. Little Weirds is made up of micro-essays, sketches and fairy-sized windows into Slate’s mind. The collection hovers around a time in Slate’s life when being alive became joyless, painful and lonely in the worst way. Little Weirds () is a collection of personal essays by Jenny Slate, a comedian who plays with language and perception to present a unique view of the world. Slate combines stories, personal essays, recollections of dreams, and other short snippets of language that are combined into a whimsical and imaginative rendering of the inside of the actress and comedian's bizarre mind.
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