I spend a lot of my time on the internet, but one of my favorite homes is YouTube. I don't recall how long I've been watching Mamrie and I'm sure I could probably find out, but I'm lazy so suffice to say that I've been watching her videos for many years. Mostly she posts videos where she decides what celebrity in the news most deserves a dang drink that week and makes a cocktail tribute to them. I'm not much of a drinker to be honest, but what has always gripped me is her comedic timing and inability to string three sentences together without making a pun. I also don't like puns... Maybe it's something to do with the fact that I have only a soft spot for food or drink related puns. Maybe I'm just bitter that I don't have the brain capacity to make puns so I pretend I hate them while deep down I'm giving a serious and bracing high-five to the punner. This woman is an actor, a YouTuber, a brilliant and sassy comedian and now she's written a book about her insane booze fueled adventures. I've been putting off reading this book though I've had it for maybe a year, which seems to be a pattern of mine and one I'm trying to correct by running a book blog. I picked this one up off the pile because I'd just read a funny book and damn if I felt like I needed another funny one. As with anything Mamrie puts her hand to, this book has a built in drinking game. On her channel, if she makes a terrible pun, you take a drink. In an effort not to give everyone alcohol poisoning however, the book criterion are slightly different but just as delightful to look out for. Drink every time she references an old tv show, talks about a product you could buy at a convenience store or uses a slang term for genitalia. I have the benefit of many years of Mamrie videos which give me the super power of reading this book in her actual voice. Look at this. She made a video with Jamie Oliver. She's like... semi-famous? She's made two movies with her best friends. I quite like her, but I wasn't sure what to expect out of a book from her. So far I'm finding it refreshing and hilarious in that actual laugh out loud kind of way. Who laughs out loud at a book?! Me, apparently. Read it in a raucous and slightly southern accent and you've got yourself a good time. So let's get down to business. I read this sucka in TWO DAYS you guys. Two. It's broken up into chapters that you could definitely read individually - there's no specific plot but rather a theme. At the beginning of each chapter she includes a cocktail recipe, and OH BOY do they relate in a big way to what you're about to experience. Some of these chapter titles/cocktail names include: Framing The Cookie, Key Lime Crime, The Angry Brazilian (which calls for jalapeno-infused cachaca and I want IN MY MOUTH), and Right In The Nuts, which is not as crude as you might first suspect, but is definitely another recipe I want to try, involving cola, homemade grenadine, white rum and peanuts. YES. Not only does she give you amazing cocktail ideas, but an amazing backstory that you'll most likely recall when you make them. This is the book that keeps on giving.
"For the grenadine, all you are going to need is unsweetened pomegranate juice, sugar and half a lemon. We aren't making that radioactive sh*t people put in Shirley Temples - this is the real stuff." - Mamrie Hart I work in a call center, and in between receiving calls I was reading this quietly or... not so quietly, to myself. Cue me stifling giggles all day because I didn't want to have to explain the hilarious and often dirty jokes peppered liberally throughout this entire book. Biographies are not for me as a general rule, but this book was so funny I'd consider adding the genre to my reading rotation. I think the only other biography or at least non-fiction/book-about-me that I've read was Russell Brand's BookyWook. You can probably make plenty of assumptions about the kind of people I find entertaining. This book was a 9 out of 10. So good. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to have a laugh, anyone who likes to drink casually, anyone who likes ridiculous stories... it's comedy gold mixed with real-life aw moments and disbelief. I love it. I went on a Mamrie video spree in order to finish this the other night and ended up weeping with laughter SHE'S TOO MUCH. Oh. Do yourself a favour and get a copy. "Needless to say I couldn't be more thankful to have this absurdly sweet, reincarnated-vaudevillian-entertainer-meets-DIY-driven-hillbilly-sass-factory in my life. And now she's created a book that let's you into hers. THANK GOD. Take it from someone who has watched her scoop room service lasagna off a carpeted hotel-room floor and eat it: None of what you're about to read is exaggerated, fabricated or G-rated. But it is, like her, special." - Grace Helbig
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