So brilliant and so funny! I need more Samantha Irby in my life.

I love Samantha Irby. This is a hilarious write-up of resolutions that never really had a chance. I will read anything this woman writes.

'New Year, Same Trash: Resolutions I Absolutely Did Not Keep' by comedian and blogger Samantha Irby is a short essay about how most of us actually deal with resolutions. It's pretty funny.

Samantha Irby for 2016 wrote down 70 short resolutions. The idea was simple goals that could be met. In this essay, she lists them, and how she fared. As the subtitle might suggest, she didn't do all that well with most of them.

The resolutions are grouped into categories like writing, or eating well. They include entries like: 21. Wear clean socks every day, and are followed by the results: "Noooooooope. Nope, nope, nopety nope. I did not manage to do this."

It's pretty funny, albeit a bit crude at times. It feels a bit like an extended blog post, but it is less than a dollar for the Kindle edition. I think it's worth at least a buck.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.

This is a very short quick read, a hilarious essay about New Years resolutions. I was not familiar with Samantha Irby before I read this, but I will be seeking more out. While we are all familiar with the failure to follow through on such resolutions, Irby's honest reflections about them are laugh out loud funny.

This year, I made no resolutions -- especially no reading resolutions. Other years, I've always planned to be disciplined about reading what's on my shelves, what's in my kindle, what's on my tbr and books friends have lent me or recommended. And I always break those resolutions. Reading is supposed to be fun or at least not to feel like a job or a chore, so I decided to give myself the freedom to wander from one book to another footloose and fancy free.

And then I read GR friend Andrew's post about planning to read more humour in 2017. And I decided that that was one resolution I would latch on to. Because 2017 is definitely a year in which humour -- including lots of acerbic political satire -- will be much needed.

All that to say that I was delighted to get an ARC of Samantha Irby's Same Trash, New Year today. I know nothing about Irby, but looking her up I saw that she's smart and funny. And how fitting that this very short piece is about her 70 broken mini resolutions -- all pretty much broken and with rationalizations provided. Funny and recognizable -- good fun for 30 minutes of entertainment.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an opportunity to read an advance copy.

By the way, I am open to suggestions for other funny reads this year. I just can't promise I'll read all or even any of them...