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Why Not Me?

Mindy Kaling (Goodreads Author)

3.89 · Rating details · 195,250 ratings · 11,147 reviews

In Why Not Me?, Kaling shares her ongoing journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life, whether it’s falling in love at work, seeking new friendships in lonely places, attempting to be the first person in history to lose weight without any behavior modification whatsoever, or most important, believing that you have a place in Hollywood when you’re constantl ...more

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Jun 12, 2014 Ashley rated it really liked it

Shelves: behind-the-scenes, entertainment-and-mixed-media, addictive, romantical, epistolary, memoir, books-about-writers, essays-and-stories, class-gender-race, humor

Update 9/22/15: This isn't going to be my best review ever. Since last night I've been fighting exhaustion, and I think I might have a sinus infection, but I wanted to get this review done within 24 hours of finishing because I know that I will forget what I want to say about it if I wait any longer than that.

First, I liked this book more than her first one, although I do admit my memory of that one is a bit squidgy. From what I do remember, I thought it was incredibly readable and I loved her ...more

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May 06, 2015 Lindsey Rey rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, 2015, nonfiction, funny

Probably the most relatable memoir I've ever read! ...more

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May 06, 2015 Kelly (and the Book Boar) rated it it was ok

Shelves: liburrrrrry-book, memoir, read-in-2015

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Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan. I was really hoping I’d like this one more. I mean, Mindy and I have quite a bit in common and I thought we could possibly be kindred spirits. We both enjoy testing out new inventions . . .

(Who says you can’t take alcohol in to youth sporting events? Amateurs!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Speaking of alcohol, we both abide by the policy that alcohol “when obtained, need[s] to be ingested quickly in case someone trie[s] to ...more

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Mar 20, 2019 Chelsea (chelseadolling reads) rated it liked it · review of another edition

I feel a lil weird rating essays about someone's life, but this was.. fine? I chuckled at times but I just don't think celebrity essay collections are really for me. ...more

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Sep 25, 2016 Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥ Martin rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: blogging-for-books, own

OMG! I'm so embarrassed that I didn't know who Mindy Kaling was, I just saw that a lot of people like the book and thought I would read it. Then I found out she was on The Office (which I have never watched and need to some day) and that she has her own show and books and things. I live under a rock at times.

I liked the book good enough, she is really funny. I could give a million funny excerpts but I won't do that, but there is one where she is giving her daily routing driving to work and this ...more

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Dec 16, 2015 Madeline rated it really liked it

Shelves: memoir

I read Mindy Kaling's first memoir/essay collection Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and other concerns) about four years ago, but I just realized that I never actually wrote a review for it - I also just realized that I never made a "memoir" shelf, so that's been corrected. I'll go back and write a review of Kaling's first book at some point, I promise.

The cliff notes version of my thoughts on Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me is that I enjoyed it, but Kaling was very clearly being select ...more

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Jan 21, 2016 Sophia rated it really liked it

i love mindy kaling. i think she's the kind of awesome that can never be overrated. she's funny, she's relatable, she's empowering, and she feels so genuine. reading this book felt like having a nice, long heart-to-heart with her, filled with laughs and awkwardness and occasionally moving snippets and just a whole lot of fun. it also felt like reading a diary, and at some parts--especially when she delves into her own fears and concerns--i couldn't decide whether this read more like her thoughts ...more

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Jun 09, 2015 Lauren Danton rated it liked it

Alright, I'm going to take a deep breath and say it; I didn't love this book. I love Mindy. I do. I love her sense of humour, her style, the way she doesn't seem to give too much of a fuck about what other people think, and her ambition. This book just didn't fit into any of those reasons of why I love her. There was a bit too much of the I'm-so-famous-look-at-how-famous-I-am-now Mindy, and not enough of the I'm-making-it-in-Hollywood-but-I'm-still-a-big-dork Mindy that I loved so much in her fi ...more

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Mar 01, 2017 Norma rated it liked it

3.5 stars for Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling

This was an enjoyable, entertaining, and a light read which was exactly what I needed for getting myself used to listening to audiobooks!

I do have a print copy of this book so I was able to follow along and see all the pictures and messages that were included with this book.

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Apr 24, 2015 Shannon (kitchandpages) rated it really liked it

You all know how much I love Mindy. I liked hearing about her next chapters post-Office life and also about her thoughts on BJ Novak! It was a really short book, but I still enjoyed it. I wanted to give it 5 stars (I actually did initially), but after thinking about it, I realized that I wasn't completely satisfied. The shortness of the book bothered me and it didn't feel complete. The parts that were there were AWESOME. I think I just wanted a bit more. Still totally worth a listen/read because ...more

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Jul 17, 2017 Susan Phillips rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: recent-reads

Mindy is somebody we’d all like as our bestie. The chapter with her address to Harvard Law is especially brilliant

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Sep 16, 2015 Jessica rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

So good! Full Review Here
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Sep 13, 2014 Giselle rated it really liked it

Shelves: 4-star, non-fiction, 2015, genre-humour, audiobook

YESSS I'll read anything she writes. Mindy is a gem. She is bright, humorous and very genuine. Her giving advice about everything from clothes to boys to careers, she is the role model young girls should look up to. I love her inspirational voice and humour and she still makes me laugh just by speaking, her voice is too cute. I listened to the audiobook and loved it. Her essays aren't as funny as the first book but this one is a little more serious which is also still as good. ...more

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Jan 06, 2016 Dana rated it it was ok

Shelves: 2016, bin, comedy, is-it-just-me, meh, memoir, zzz

Unpopular Opinion Time

I think I'm more of a Mindy Lahiri fan than a Mindy Kaling one.

It's been awhile since I have finished a book and was left feeling so apathetic. I enjoy the Mindy Project and The Office, but I just don't find Mindy all that interesting to read about. I feel like I'm reading someones diary and not in a good way.

I think I chuckled once while reading this, but my main thought was often “how is this even worthy of a mention?” I normally don't mind rambly narratives, but this on ...more

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Jul 24, 2017 Malia added it · review of another edition

Shelves: humor, non-fiction

I think this concludes my foray into celebrity memoir type books for a while now. Kaling seems a nice person, but both of her books left me fairly unaffected. Not bad at all, but not very funny either, which was what I had hoped for.

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Sep 16, 2015 Danny rated it it was amazing

“People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you're succeeding. People do not get scared when you're failing. It calms them. But when you're winning, it makes them feel like they're losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it's too late. And since they didn't, they want to stop you. You can't let them.”

I seriously love Mindy Kaling! her first book was amazing, and this one was just as amazing if not better. I caught myse ...more

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Oct 10, 2015 Diane rated it liked it

Shelves: memoirs, audiobooks, humorous, hollywood

Sweet, funny Mindy Kaling. Her delightful audiobook was the perfect prescription for a long and stressful week.

I had read Mindy's first book a few years ago and enjoyed it, but I think this second memoir was a little stronger. She wrote more about her career and how hard she works, she wrote about her good friends and family, and she wrote about the pressures she faces over her appearance. There are also some silly chapters, like about how she enjoys kissing guys on her show "The Mindy Project," Sweet, funny Mindy Kaling. Her delightful audiobook was the perfect prescription for a long and stressful week.

I had read Mindy's first book a few years ago and enjoyed it, but I think this second memoir was a little stronger. She wrote more about her career and how hard she works, she wrote about her good friends and family, and she wrote about the pressures she faces over her appearance. There are also some silly chapters, like about how she enjoys kissing guys on her show "The Mindy Project," why she dislikes weddings, and she fantasizes an alternate reality in which she became a Latin school teacher and struck up a romance with a colleague. She also shares her 4 a.m. worries, how fame has changed her, and a cute speech she gave to the Harvard Law School class in 2014. My favorite section was about her friendship with fellow "Office" writer and actor B.J. Novak, and she shares a few good stories about working with him.

In short, this memoir is like a romantic comedy wrapped up in a cute little book jacket.

Mindy has a nice fan base, and if you have enjoyed her TV and film work, you would probably get a kick out of this book. I would also recommend it to young girls, because I think Mindy is a good role model. She advocates working hard and building your self-confidence: If you believe in yourself and work hard, you have a fighting shot at having your dreams come true.

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"People talk about confidence without ever bringing up hard work. That's a mistake. I know I sound like some dour older spinster chambermaid on Downton Abbey who has never felt a man's touch and whose heart has turned to stone, but I don't understand how you could have self-confidence if you don't do the work. I work a lot. Like, a lot a lot ... Hard work is such a weird thing. As children and teenagers you are told it's a really good thing, but for adults it suddenly becomes the worst thing in the world. We do a thing in America, which is to label people 'workaholics' and tell them that work is ruining their lives ... The truth is, I have never, ever, ever met a highly confident and successful person who is not what a movie would call a 'workaholic.' We can't have it both ways, and children should know that. Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it." ...more

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Nov 17, 2018 ♛ may rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: yawn, audiobook, 200-pgs, bye, library, n-o-p-e, standalones

i wanted to love this bc mindy kaling is like the cutest human ever but this was just.....really unfunny and the topics were so erratic??

didn't win me over. sad.

1.5 stars ...more

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Mar 28, 2020 Ariel added it · review of another edition

I just really love Mindy Kaling and this further solidified that because she's a funny and generous human who makes me smile and makes me laugh. Recommended if you like Mindy! ...more

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Oct 04, 2016 abby rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: nonfiction, biography-memoir

If there were such a thing as celebrity soul mates, I'd like to think mine would be Mindy Kaling. Because that's the kind of person Kaling is: graduate of an Ivy League college, writer/actor for two successful tv shows, author of two books... and so down-to-earth that a yokel like me can think, "yeah, sure, we could totally be friends." Because Kaling surely has nothing better to do than call me up and vent over why it's so hard to find a hair iron with auto shutoff (Kaling's number one fear is ...more

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Dec 30, 2015 Snotchocheez rated it really liked it

3.5 stars

The announcement of another Mindy Kaling book, so soon after her 'meh' and shrug-eliciting Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? did not exactly set my mouth watering in anticipation. Though I thoroughly loved her (along with ~~soup snake~~ soulmate BJ Novak's) writing and acting for almost a decade of The Office episodes, her first book was (to me) a mishmash of banality, curiously lacking in the humor that made me love her so.

After reading Glenn's terrific, positive endorsement of Why Not 3.5 stars

The announcement of another Mindy Kaling book, so soon after her 'meh' and shrug-eliciting Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? did not exactly set my mouth watering in anticipation. Though I thoroughly loved her (along with ~~soup snake~~ soulmate BJ Novak's) writing and acting for almost a decade of The Office episodes, her first book was (to me) a mishmash of banality, curiously lacking in the humor that made me love her so.

After reading Glenn's terrific, positive endorsement of Why Not Me?, I had to give it a try. Gotta say though, that my rekindled enthusiasm for this follow-up set of essays was tempered by a lukewarm. binge-watch of The Mindy Project. It kept my interest enough to slide through (as of this writing) all 70+ episodes, and further solidified my admiration of her work ethic, but only sporadically did I find myself laughing as hard as I did with The Office material.

The book itself, though quite a bit similar to her first one, is much more funny, and much less superficial than the selfies of her volcanic acne issues and lists of NBA stars she'd most like to boink that made the first book so ho-hum to me. There were a few clunkers in this collection, too (particularly the list of differences between Mindy Kaling and Mindy Lahiri, her on-screen OB-GYN character on The Mindy Project). Mostly though, just lots of funny, poignant stuff. Her ode to Novak, "Soup Snakes", was just about the most perfect blend of comedy and soul-baring I've seen from her. Her account of meeting Obama (3 times) and subsequent crush on one of his aides could've been a boasty, name-droppy mess, but, nope, quite a blast. Her commencement speech to Harvard Law graduates (a weird, but essential inclusion here) is as wacky and funny as you'd expect from someone so utterly clueless about the legal profession. Her tributes to her recently passed mom are heartfelt, yet still manage to be funny. A kooky, epistolary glimpse at her first career choice after graduating from Dartmouth (Latin teacher at a private academy) didn't fail to bring the funny, either.

Despite the few missteps (like her TMI-candor of loving to film sex scenes on TMP), I laughed throughout this breezy collection. I was pleasantly surprised. (Now, if only her TV show could improve...) ...more

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Jul 24, 2014 Juhina rated it it was amazing

I loved Mindy Kaling's first book Is Everybody Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns). I also love Mindy Kaling's show The Mindy Project. I basically love anything Mindy Kaling does, with good reason, including her new book Why Not Me?. Honestly if Mindy Kaling is explaining to me how the REM cycle works, she'll find a way to turn it into the most fascinating, funny, and exciting thing ever. I love her humour and it translates really well in writing. I found myself laughing out loud countl I loved Mindy Kaling's first book Is Everybody Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns). I also love Mindy Kaling's show The Mindy Project. I basically love anything Mindy Kaling does, with good reason, including her new book Why Not Me?. Honestly if Mindy Kaling is explaining to me how the REM cycle works, she'll find a way to turn it into the most fascinating, funny, and exciting thing ever. I love her humour and it translates really well in writing. I found myself laughing out loud countless times in the 240 pages of Why Not Me?

I was curious to see what direction she'll be taking with this book that hasn't been done in her previous one. I mean it's somewhat a biography.. what is more to tell than what has been told and what we already know about Mindy? apparently a lot. Her book is more anecdotes about past experiences or fictional stories she made up. You seriously feel like she is directly speaking to you. Her choice of photos and captions are stellar.

Why Not Me? isn't just funny, we get to read about the whole issue with Fox's cancellation of The Mindy Project and Hulu picking it up. I was so happy that was included. I also am especially fond of the last chapter in her book which she addresses a question a girl asked at one of her fan meetings but she regretted not being able to give her a proper answer. Lastly, I love that she talked about body images and how she found herself thrust into being the representative of 'real women with curves'. All her chapters were so interesting and amusing, I never grew bored of reading her book. I wish she writes more and not just this type of book, but an actual fictional story. She included a snippet of what her life would be like if she didn't pursue the path she's on, and man, by the end of that story, I wanted more. Mindy can be a fantastic chick lit writer!

To sum it up, I was not disappointed one bit, even though I've been waiting for this book for over a year. I love Mindy Kaling and her humour will always bring a smile and laugh to me. I am hoping she'll continue writing books, be it fiction or non fiction. I definitely recommend people to pick this up, you honestly won't be disappointed. ...more

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Nov 04, 2017 Whitney Atkinson rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: memoir, read-in-2017, audiobook, feminism

I enjoyed this one more than her first book, although both were just so lighthearted yet packed with great stories and advice. It's very good, clean humor, and Mindy is so energetic and playful that I can't help but love her. In this one she focuses a lot on confidence and friendships, and I thought a lot of her advice was so endearing and I actually underlined some of her thoughts near the end.

This book talks a lot more about The Mindy Project, which I don't watch and don't intend to watch, bu ...more

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Sep 16, 2015 Rincey rated it liked it

Shelves: poc-author, 2015

Listened to this one on audiobook.

I say this about every celebrity memoir, but I think that my reaction to any celebrity memoir is basically how I feel about that celebrity in general. In the case of Mindy Kaling, I have a 70/30 love-disinterest ratio going on with her and that is basically how I felt about the book.

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Nov 30, 2014 Jamie-leigh Haughn rated it really liked it

*4.5

Man I love Mindy!!

I listened to this book via Audible, that't the way to do it! Her books are fantastic audiobooks, Mindy has such a great story telling ability and her reading this book made it that much better! I enjoyed this book even more than her first one! there was only one section that I didn't like, it was a series of emails and I found it to be a bit repetitive and boring! Other than that, this book was FABULOUS, just like Mindy herself :) ...more

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Mar 06, 2016 Éimhear (A Little Haze) rated it liked it

“I had finally done it. I had created a show. Not for Must-See TV, home of Cheers and Friends. But for Fox, home of Married … with Children and Joe Millionaire. You never quite get everything you want the way you want it. But here I was, a showrunner and TV star, so who cared? Nothing bad would happen to me now. The end!
NOT SO FAST, BIG SHOT”

‘Why Not Me?’ is Mindy Kaling’s second foray into the world of memoir writing and it again is another funny collection of anecdotes, speeches, general m

“I had finally done it. I had created a show. Not for Must-See TV, home of Cheers and Friends. But for Fox, home of Married … with Children and Joe Millionaire. You never quite get everything you want the way you want it. But here I was, a showrunner and TV star, so who cared? Nothing bad would happen to me now. The end!
NOT SO FAST, BIG SHOT”

‘Why Not Me?’ is Mindy Kaling’s second foray into the world of memoir writing and it again is another funny collection of anecdotes, speeches, general musings and the day to day happenings in Mindy’s life.

“When you meet me, within the first ten minutes I have loudly explained my whole deal to you. With the exception of an auctioneer and maybe Kris Jenner, there is no one in the world less mysterious than me.”

Though not quite as continually laugh-out-loud as her first book, this was again another funny and light hearted read. However this time around, Mindy did get a little more serious on us. She has stepped into the role of mentor and icon to young girls and has imparted her very practical seeds of advice… basically work hard and accept yourself. She really is just very down-to-earth though, you do get the feeling that she is a girl with all the same hopes and fears as the rest of us. There were also some more poignant moments when she spoke about her mom who has recently passed away. And there was lots of background information about her comedy show The Mindy Project….oh and the time she met President Obama…AHHHHHHAHAHAHAHA what a hoot!!!

So do I feel like I know Mindy better after reading this second book?? Well yes I do actually!!! …okay it was filled with lots of superfluous but HILARIOUS things but I think this was a little more honest account of her and I for one would love to sit down and talk about all my wonderful nothings with her too. Please be my new best friend Mindy… cos it’s not at ALL weird to make such requests of celebrities right???????????????????????????????

Three giggly stars

Oh and it being Mindy…. I NEED SOME FUNNY QUOTES AND PASSAGES!!! Try these ones on for size :)))))))

“IN SEVENTH GRADE I started at a new school. On the first day, I was so anxious to make friends, I brought a family-size bag of Skittles to homeroom so I could pass them out and entice my new classmates to talk to me. “Do you like Skittles?” I asked. Kids would nod, cautiously. “Here, take some. I’m Mindy!” I said, trying to rope them into conversation. It didn’t work very well. Even back then the kids thought this was suspicious behaviour, like I was covering for something unseemly they couldn’t quite pinpoint. Still, I persisted, striking up conversations like a middle school Hare Krishna, and cornering kids with aggressively banal chitchat. “That’s so funny you like the colour blue. I like turquoise. We’re so similar.” I did this until my art teacher, Mr. Posner, pulled me aside.
Mr. Posner was soft-spoken and wouldn’t let us talk about the movie Silence of the Lambs, because it contained violence against women. I hated him. “You don’t have to give people candy to like you, Mindy,” he said. “They will like you … for you.” …
As I got older, I got craftier and less obvious, but I’ve always put a lot of energy and effort into people liking me. That’s why I’ve never understood the compliment “effortless.” People love to say: “She just walked into the party, charming people with her effortless beauty.” I don’t understand that at all. What’s so wrong with effort, anyway? It means you care. What about the girl who “walked into the party, her determination to please apparent on her eager face”? Sure, she might seem a little crazy, and, yes, maybe everything she says sounds like conversation starters she found on a website, but at least she’s trying. Let’s give her a shot!”

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“An unspoken rule among actresses is: never tell any other woman the secrets of your beauty, even if she’s a ninety-five-year-old background actor playing a cadaver. “Today she’s a cadaver; tomorrow she’s a cadaver on a CBS drama trying to balance a love life and her demanding job as a district attorney,” you think suspiciously. That’s why when actresses are asked in interviews about their obvious, face-altering plastic surgery, they say things like “Oh, I would never get any work done. Then how do I look like this? I’m just getting a lot of rest, meditating, and staying hydrated.” One of the great things about women’s magazines is that they accept that drinking water and sitting quietly will make your breasts huge and lips plump up to the size of two bratwursts.”

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“I’ve always loved clothes. Like any normal woman, I would see a dress, buy it, rip the tags off with my teeth, save the buttons for ten to twelve years in a drawer, and wear it to work. If I was going on a date, I might take a little extra care and use nail clippers to remove the tag, wear a cardigan on top, and cinch the whole look together with a wide belt. “Cinch together the whole look with a wide belt” was a very popular style in the early 2000s, which we believed accentuated our curves but in reality made a generation of women look like we were wearing lumbar support braces.”

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“I knew I wanted my character in the new show to be a big comedy character. There are plenty of shows on TV where the lead female exists solely to be the calm, responsible voice of reason. She is often the one keeping the cast of kooky side characters at bay, saying stuff like “Guys, are you sure this is a good idea?” or “You guys go on the road trip to recover the sex tape; I’ll stay here on the B-story about getting locked in the pantry.”
My favourite shows have a flawed and ridiculous lead who is steering the comedy of the show, making big mistakes and then struggling to fix them. Basil Fawlty from Fawlty Towers was my favourite example, as was Edina Monsoon from Absolutely Fabulous, and Michael Scott, of course. This was a must.”

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“I’ve been in the television business for eleven years, which is a very long time. Not long by regular-job standards, but, at thirty-five, people around here are beginning to call me seasoned. “Seasoned,” for those of you not in show business, is the worst insult you can call a woman. It means a cross between “old,” “disagreeable,” and “only wears slacks.”

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“I will leave you with one last piece of advice, which is: If you’ve got it, flaunt it. And if you don’t got it? Flaunt it. ’Cause what are we even doing here if we’re not flaunting it?
And that, my friends, shall go on my tombstone.”
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Aug 23, 2017 Paul E. Morph rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: books-read-in-2017

Very amusing in places but I was made very aware throughout that I wasn't the target audience. Not a bad read, particularly if you're a fan of Kaling's television work, but I wouldn't recommend it to anybody else, to be honest.

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Jan 29, 2016 Liza rated it really liked it

I love Mindy so much! She is such an inspiration to women of any age! I honestly can't decide which book of hers I like more since they are both so spectacular. I love her show The Mindy Project, and am so happy that she went further into detail about the process, the characters, and the development. This book definitely revolved more around relationships as a topic, which was actually really well done. It wasn't heavy, it didn't go on and on with no end in sight, and it wasn't difficult or unco ...more

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Sep 17, 2018 Heather K (dentist in my spare time) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, made-me-laugh, narrator-amazing, memoir, cute-fluffy

On my second time read through of Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling, I couldn't get enough. I enjoyed the book in hardcover, but I REALLY enjoyed it in audio. Audio is 100% the way to go with this one. Perfect narration and I laughed out lough numerous times. My mood wasn't that great today and this book brought my spirits way up.

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Apr 13, 2016 Prabhjot Kaur rated it liked it

Shelves: humour, non-fiction, indian-author, indian, biography, memoir

I love Mindy Kaling with all my heart. I love all her shows and movies. I love her Instagram updates and her Tweets and everything in between. And I also wanted to love this book but I couldn't love it as much as I wanted to.

There are some really laugh out loud moments and everything about Mindy is very relatable and likable but still this book fell short on my expectations. May be I expected way too much, I don't know. It is still very funny and enjoyable though.

3.5 stars ...more

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Mindy Kaling is an actor, writer, producer, and director. She currently stars in the Hulu original comedy series “The Mindy Project," which she also writes and executive produces.

Before "The Mindy Project," Mindy was best known for her work on the critically acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning NBC show “The Office.” In addition to directing, producing, and portraying celebrity-obsessed Kelly Kapoor, M ...more

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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

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Good Minds Suggest: Mindy Kaling's Favorite Funny Memoirs

Her Favorite Funny Memoirs: Laugh along with the Hollywood triple threat in her new book of heartfelt essays, Why Not Me?, and in these hilarious...

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“Work hard, know your shit, show your shit, and then feel entitled. Listen to no one except the two smartest and kindest adults you know, and that doesn't always mean your parents. If you do that, you will be fine.” — 238 likes

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