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By the actress, writer, and one of the funniest women on Twitter, an outrageous, hysterical memoir of acting on impulse, plotting elaborate hoaxes, and refusing to acknowledge boundaries in any form
Jenny Mollen is an actress and writer living in Los Angeles. She is also a wife, married to a famous guy (which is annoying only because he gets free shit and she doesn't). She doesn't want much from life. Just to be loved—by everybody: her parents, her dogs, her ex-boyfriends, her ex-boyfriends' dogs, her husband, her husband's ex-girlfriends, her husband's ex-girlfriend's new boyfriends, etc. Some people might call that impulse crazy, but isn't "crazy" really just a word boring people use to describe fun people? (And Jenny is really, really fun, you guys!)
In these pages, you'll find stories of Jenny at her most genuine, whether it's stalking her therapist (because he knows everything about her so shouldn't she get to know everything about him?); throwing a bachelorette party so bad that one of the guests is suspected dead; or answering the eternal question, Would your best friend blow your husband on a car ride to dinner if she didn't know you were hiding in the backseat?
I Like You Just the Way I Am is about not doing the right thing—about indulging your inner crazy-person. It is Jenny when she's not trying to impress anyone or come across as a responsible, level-headed member of society. With any luck it will make you better acquainted with who you really are and what you really want. Which, let's be honest, is most likely someone else's email password.
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Kirkus
June 1, 2014
Actress Mollen delivers a collection of 15 raunchy essays.A sampling of a few of the titles within this assemblage: "Behind Every Crazy Woman, There's an Even More Batshit Mother"; "The Birthday Whore"; "Hand Jobs: The Fine Art of Getting a Mani-Pedi Next to Your Husband's Ex (Who Hates You)"; "Chicks Before Dicks"; "Nobody Wants to be Your Fucking Bridesmaid"; and "You Were Molested." Granted, Mollen warns readers regarding her blunt views: "There is zero reason to be ashamed of announcing and acting on your real feelings. Life is too short for bullshit. I'm thirty-three, and my tits drop about half an inch a year. In other words, it's all downhill from here." Called the funniest woman on Twitter by the Huffington Post, the author freely throws off her few inhibitions throughout these pieces. Wading into Mollen's essays eventually creates reader fatigue akin to being cornered by a self-centered bore at a cocktail party. The author is unrelentingly candid. A passage from the essay titled "One Shade of Grey" explains Mollen's attempt at spicing up her marriage (to fellow actor Jason Biggs) with a series of sex toys and enhancements. Here and elsewhere, the author demonstrates her penchant for humor in the vein of Sarah Silverman's most X-rated material, but Mollen is simply not as clever. "Sometimes I'd contemplated writing a movie, then stop and buy something online instead," she writes. "I never saw myself as a writer. I have horrible grammar and can't spell to save my life. I never had an English teacher single me out or imply that I showed any promise beyond being a B+ student." Perhaps the author should stick to acting.A simple exercise comprised of equal parts crass, snarky humor and narcissistic blather.COPYRIGHT(2014) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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