I Suck at Girls by Justin Halpern is the funniest book since Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. Halpern examines his failed attempts to understand and impress girls, and with each story he gets older but no wiser, beginning as a young boy tormenting the girl who sits next to him in elementary school, stealing porn from homeless men in middle school, backpacking through Europe in a desperate attempt to get laid, a summer job at Hooters in another attempt to score with the waitresses, and culminating with a long distance romance with his now wife. After putting the book down, I would find myself giggling hours later, as I was making dinner or folding laundry. My advice, buy this book in hard copy, not on an e-reader (like I did), because you are going to want to loan this out. I'm already planning on buying a copy for my husband.
I'm guessing we won't have a lot of intellectual discourse at book club this week about this book, but I bet we'll have lots of laughs. After our last two book club books, Vaclav & Lena by Haley Tanner in May, which I really liked but brought me to tears three times, and Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman in June, which I've already reviewed, we needed a good laugh before we got back to our usual fare.
I was taken to task earlier by DallasBookworm for failing to timely read her posts. It has never occurred to her after three years of marriage that I don't know how to read and was simply too embarrassed to say anything...
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