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My Review: Mindy Kaling is back with her second book filled with her signature humour and down to earth personality that have so many people clamouring to know more about her.

When I requested to review this book I, of course, knew a bit about Mindy Kaling but I admit that I wasn't a die-hard fan. I knew that she'd always come off as down-to-earth (I love it when celebrities feel like they're normal people) and she's a funny comedienne. Funny with a capital "F", y'all. I also knew she was on the American version of The Office and has her own show, The Mindy Project which she produces, writes and stars in. In the past I had watched episodes of her show but wouldn't have considered myself a Mindy Minion, so to speak. But I'm definitely changing my tune now.

See, I love funny. I'm Canadian so, generally speaking, we know funny. Good funny. We enjoy a good 'giggle in a public place while you're reading' kind of funny. This is that kind of book. In her second foray into the world of comedic self-deprecating literature, Mindy honestly shares her ups and downs, her heartaches and joy with her readers in a collection of short essays which include looks into her life in Hollywood, her search for a man, her friendships, sorority tales and even her beauty secrets.

Mindy has got the tongue in cheek humour down pat and is the kind of girl I'd love to hang out with. I realize that she already has the role of Best Friend filled (darn it, Jocelyn!!) but I could totally see filling that role should Jocelyn not continue to fulfill all of the requirements. Mindy comes across as normal gal living in the totally ca-razy world of Hollywood and she often has the kind of responses that I could see having (perhaps in a milder way) in the same situation.

Overall, I really enjoyed reading about Mindy's continuing coming of age story. She's a funny lady with heart and has a good message that she gives readers -- you are entitled to have dreams. It's great to have ambition! Why shouldn't you follow your dreams? If you work like hell you may just achieve them. But the defining factor for Mindy is that she's funny and the masses of us normal folk can't help but like her. And while I wouldn't say every chapter was mind blowingly funny (she's not Canadian after all) I loved this light, make-me-snort-laugh kind of read and plan to watch more of The Mindy Project to increase my Mindy Minion status.

My Rating: 4/5 stars

Disclaimer: My sincere thanks to Random House Canada and Crown Archetype for providing me with a complimentary hardcover copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

**This book review can also be found on my blog, The Baking Bookworm (www.thebakingbookworm.blogspot.ca) where I share hundreds of book reviews and my favourite recipes. **


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Why Not Me? Mindy Kaling 9780804138147 Books Reviews

Coming off having read Anna Kendrick’s and Tina Fey’s books, I figured this would be in a similar vein witty, insightful, clever, and (ultimately) a view into where she came from, what her life was like up til now. Perhaps I should’ve read another of Kaling’s books, since this was more a mix of general stand up and personal stories, and I really just wanted the latter. For someone who claims to be endlessly giving off TMI, too much of this book hid her behind generic comedy. Oh well.
Mindy Kaling is an exceptionally intelligent woman who has worked hard for her success in an industry that's been famously unfriendly to women. Her book is mostly not about that. Instead, it's a deceptively hilarious extended meditation on how she from bribing classmates to like her with Skittles at the age of 12 she became the force of nature that she is. In Hollywood, which believes its own fictions about what the world wants from female writers of comedy and even more about what it wants from female TV icons, she's done what every woman in the TV business must have thought was impossible created her success by hard work and being herself. She was there before Lena Dunham and before Amy Schumer.

This book is funny, so maybe a younger person might miss the recurring message to achieve success, MK had to pick her priorities (make sacrifices) at every turn. Near the end of the book, there's an excellent account of how she learned the difference at a young age between earned success and unearned self-esteem, which is something many parents today don't understand.

How did she learn to rise above her own insecurities? By refusing to concede that other people's ideas about what she was entitled to achieve were more valid than her own--and by hard work, sleepless nights, and knowing what she wanted. Most important, she emphasises the absolute and seldom acknowledged connection between self confidence and self acceptance and hard work plus tenacity. And yet on the surface, it's a funny book that's not about any of those things.

I liked it. Any ambitious young woman would benefit from reading this.

She's an excellent role model for any young woman who wants to learn how to get there (or anywhere) from here.
My Review Mindy Kaling is back with her second book filled with her signature humour and down to earth personality that have so many people clamouring to know more about her.

When I requested to review this book I, of course, knew a bit about Mindy Kaling but I admit that I wasn't a die-hard fan. I knew that she'd always come off as down-to-earth (I love it when celebrities feel like they're normal people) and she's a funny comedienne. Funny with a capital "F", y'all. I also knew she was on the American version of The Office and has her own show, The Mindy Project which she produces, writes and stars in. In the past I had watched episodes of her show but wouldn't have considered myself a Mindy Minion, so to speak. But I'm definitely changing my tune now.

See, I love funny. I'm Canadian so, generally speaking, we know funny. Good funny. We enjoy a good 'giggle in a public place while you're reading' kind of funny. This is that kind of book. In her second foray into the world of comedic self-deprecating literature, Mindy honestly shares her ups and downs, her heartaches and joy with her readers in a collection of short essays which include looks into her life in Hollywood, her search for a man, her friendships, sorority tales and even her beauty secrets.

Mindy has got the tongue in cheek humour down pat and is the kind of girl I'd love to hang out with. I realize that she already has the role of Best Friend filled (darn it, Jocelyn!!) but I could totally see filling that role should Jocelyn not continue to fulfill all of the requirements. Mindy comes across as normal gal living in the totally ca-razy world of Hollywood and she often has the kind of responses that I could see having (perhaps in a milder way) in the same situation.

Overall, I really enjoyed reading about Mindy's continuing coming of age story. She's a funny lady with heart and has a good message that she gives readers -- you are entitled to have dreams. It's great to have ambition! Why shouldn't you follow your dreams? If you work like hell you may just achieve them. But the defining factor for Mindy is that she's funny and the masses of us normal folk can't help but like her. And while I wouldn't say every chapter was mind blowingly funny (she's not Canadian after all) I loved this light, make-me-snort-laugh kind of read and plan to watch more of The Mindy Project to increase my Mindy Minion status.

My Rating 4/5 stars

Disclaimer My sincere thanks to Random House Canada and Crown Archetype for providing me with a complimentary hardcover copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

**This book review can also be found on my blog, The Baking Bookworm (www.thebakingbookworm.blogspot.ca) where I share hundreds of book reviews and my favourite recipes. **