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Did her parents read this book?,June 23, 2008
Life of a twenty-something in contemporary New York City must be a moveable feast, for there appear to be a plethora of books of non-fiction detailing all of the odd, amusing and not so amusing incidents of that way of life. I found it amazing that the author had so many different roommates, all of them male, and they almost were non-entities in the book. The incidents were chuckle-causing, and even though I’m way beyond the age of the author, I did enjoy the book very much, and perhaps with a bit of envy for a life I never led!
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Too good?,May 16, 2008
Perhaps the real Sloane Crosley is a transgendered junkie raised in foster homes by abusive religious fanatics. One never knows these days (and maybe not just these days, if you think of Daniel Defoe faking it). Anyway she writes in the persona of a young, healthy, good-looking heterosexual with Westchester parents, a New England College, and a Manhattan job. These are handicaps for the vendor of comic reminiscences, but Crosley overcomes them nobly, and was able to make me laugh out loud at several points. She makes the most of the childhood traumata of having an unusual name and being assigned the second best bedroom. Would Augusten Burroughs have managed as well with such scant material? He had it made.
I was about to conclude with commiserating her for the fact that humor is a tough competitive market, and that even the most brilliant satire ends up on the reminder tables if it ever makes print, but I see that she’s in the Amazon top one hundred bestseller list. No theodicy is needed.
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My new favorite author,April 19, 2008
I Was Told There’d Be Cake is a series of essays by sometimes-contributor to the Village Voice Sloane Crosley. There are fifteen essays total, and they cover typical twenty-something subjects, such as moving into a new walkup apartment in New York City (not as easy as it would appear), attending the wedding of every girl you knew in high school that you’d forgotten about (been there, done that), a semidysfunctional family (her family IS my family), and a satanic first boss.
Sloane Crosley tells these stories with humor and insight and she has a truly unique voice. But there were also times where I found myself thinking, “I think the same way!” Or, “I wish I’d thought of that!” It’s a completely honest, open kind of storytelling, one that you don’t see in many writers of today. Being a twenty-something myself, I could completely empathize with this book–made even better if you understand the cultural references (Oregon Trail, anyone?) This book is a complete gem. I’m going to recommend it to every twenty-something I know.
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Fun and entertaining read.,July 9, 2008
This is a great book to take on a plane or while waiting at an appointment. Her style is as absurd and humorous as Seinfeld, which is high praise in my opinion.
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