Book #14 |
Book: Do You Mind If I Cancel?: Things That Still Annoy Me | Author: Gary Janetti | |
| Source: Library loan Format: Audiobook |
Pages: 159 | Duration: 03/01/26 – 03/01/26 (1 day) | |
| Rating: ★★★★☆ | Genres: nonfiction, memoir, humor essays, comedy, LGBT | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Funny and poignant look at the “indignities of everyday life.” 🖌6-word review: It grew on me. Ultimately amusing. |
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| 💭A favorite quote: “For those of you who don’t know, Dynasty was a sensation that took over the fucking country for a few years in the 80s. It was our Game of Thrones, but with shoulder pads.” | |||
| Description:* Gary spends his twenties in New York, dreaming of starring on soap operas while in reality working at a hotel where he lusts after an unattainable colleague and battles a bellman who despises it when people actually use a bell to call him. He chronicles the torture of finding a job before the internet when you had to talk on the phone all the time, and fantasizes, as we all do, about who to tell off when he finally wins an Oscar. As Gary himself says, “These are essays from my childhood and young adulthood about things that still annoy me.”*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: This book was recommended to me by a friend, and I was a little turned off by it at the beginning, but then I adjusted my attitude and I ended up enjoying it a lot. In the beginning, I thought the humor was a little too “drag-queen-bitchy” for my taste. I’d never heard of this author since I never watched Family Guy, which I only just now realize is not the same show as Modern Family, which I also never watched. (If you think that’s bad, until I one day saw pictures of Kylie Minogue and Nicki Minaj in an article, I thought they were the same person. #BlessMyHeart) I see that Gary was also a writer for Will & Grace, which I did watch but never paid any attention to who the writers were. With it all said and done, I did have a few literal laugh-out-louds in the last half of the book. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2026 and previous years: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
