Quietly Hostile will please fans of Samantha Irby’s essays. This collection made me laugh out loud many times. Her honesty and ability to not only deliver a punchline while also pulling back the curtains on anxiety, chronic illness, living through the world shutting down due to COVID, and getting a pandemic dog. Her ability to remain relatable and consistently funny while writing about stepping into the Sex and the City reboot and working on a pilot about her life is impressive. In a lesser writer’s hands, these experiences may have felt too far removed from everyday life. Instead, Irby shapes even these into pieces into essays that make you feel like you are listening to your most hilarious friend, nodding along as she points out the joys and pains and grief and fears of being human. Every new book by Samantha Irby is cause for celebration and this newest continues the trend. A huge thank you to Vintage and NetGalley for access to an advanced e-galley. Look for this hilarious collection May 16, 2023.

Thank you NetGalley for this ARC! God, I just love Samantha Irby so much. This book made me laugh out loud, and also laugh quietly to myself while my partner was sleeping because I couldn’t put it down!! I think she also has made me want to watch Sex and the City for the first time in my life, so that’s something too??

Here are some things I don't like talking or hearing about: diarrhea, debilitating insecurity, and <i>Sex and the City</i>. Yet I would happily listen to Samantha Irby on any of these topics and other subjects that I typically find distasteful. I miss her takes on the world when she in between publications. Thanks to the galley gods, I indulged my yearning for Irby with her newest essay collection <i>Quietly Hostile</i>.

Irby deliver another strong set of essays on getting older, frailer, and lonelier with her trademark blend of humor and pathos. Her continuing brutal honesty and relentless wit will delight while her anger in <i>Quietly Hostile</i> is sharper and may surprise longtime fans, but adds a new dimension to her work. She's no longer just a humorist; there's something bigger happening here. I can't wait for her next publication to see where this new development takes us.

This is another winning book from Samantha Irby.

Irby’s gift is that she can write about herself without crossing into navel gazing. Many authors don’t have that skill. The last thing I want to feel like when I read an essay is that the thing being discussed is only something that would happen to the author. But with Irby, I can relate. Many have insecurities about our bodies, want to stay home over going out, and struggle with issues from our childhoods. Irby about these in a self deprecating way that makes a reader like he say, “I totally see where she’s coming from.”

I recommend this book to any fans of humor or life in general.

I think Samantha Irby is hilarious and have read two of previous books. I listened to Wow, No Thank You and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life both of which were read by the author.

I can say that I didn't enjoy this book as much as I did the other two by Irby that I'd read previously. I felt this was a bit unfinished and wished some of the essays were longer and had more detail while others seemed stretched out for filler. There was very long chapter about Sex and the City that I mostly skimmed since I'm not a fan of the show and found it boring, this was also the longest chapter in the book. I found others hilarious, such as her having to go the Emergency Room and adopting a dog during Covid lockdowns. I think this book maybe should've been edited more and will read future books by this author but Quietly Hostile didn't meet the mark for me.

I think this can be skipped in favour of Irby's other books as it's just ok. I plan to read Meaty, her first book, at some point as well.

Thank you to Netgalley and Anchor Vintage for providing me with an eARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

I’m a fan of Samantha Irby but this book just didn’t resonate with me this time. Irby always gives stories/essays about her life in her books. This time it was the same but it had a different tone. I didn’t care for the nun story at all, but felt I needed to read it to make an honest review on the book. I just didn’t care for so much negativity towards herself either. The Sex and the City chapter ran on and on and on. I know the title is Quietly Hostile, but Hostile would be better.

I love that Samantha has animals on the covers of her books. Keep them coming. I thought this one was funnier than her other books. I related to it better. Look forward to many more.

Look, it's no secret that I'm obsessed with Samantha Irby. Every one of her books has made me laugh so hard I almost pee my pants. (Relevant — there's a lot of pants-peeing in this one.) As she's become a more prolific writer, her essays have only gotten funnier. From relatable topics, like her favorite chain restaurants and the misanthropic chihuahua she adopted during the pandemic, to her experiences writing for the Sex and the City reboot and pitching her own TV show, these essays deliver the comedy Irby does best. I laughed. I cried. I wished I could invite Samantha Irby to my house party, even though she explicitly promises she won't show up.

I loved the cover but I just couldn't get into the writing style. It just was not that funny. Maybe I am just not the right person for this author.

Quietly Hostile...even the title made me laugh. Samantha Irby has hit it out of the park again. There was only one chapter that dragged a bit for me. The others had me laughing as my husband tried to sleep and I was trying to hold my laughter in. The essays were relatable, and about subjects people tend not to talk about: for instance all the places her pee has leaked out. Same. The author is ballsy and outspoken, so if that's your thing, this is her best yet! Thank you to the Vintage Books, Net Galley and the author for an advance electronic ARC. All opinions are my own.

If you have been a fan of Samantha Irby's previous works, you absolutely should go out and grab this collection of essays as well. She continues to make the most mundane situations hilarious - random Starbucks orders that are 100 instructions long? New Cheesecake Factory opening at the mall? These are absolutely relatable scenarios that I want to laugh about. The only essay I really didn't enjoy was the [very long] one about Sex and the City, as I was never a fan. Thankfully, with collections like that, it was as simple as skipping over to the next one when I realized I wasn't into it.

Thanks to the publisher for providing an ARC through Net Galley.

Another fabulous book of essays by Samantha Irby. I am not sure what it is about her writing, or her stories, that I love, but I am always so entertained. They’re so full of life and self-deprecation. They cover such a range of topics that everyone can find something that interests them.

If you’re looking for something funny, pick this one up.

Another hysterical collection by Samantha Irby.I laughed hysterically at some of the things she says and does.I enjoyed following her latest adventures.reading about her life with her wife spending a low key Valentine’s with them had me laughing out loud. #netgalley#vintagebook

With thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC. I got an uncorrected proof copy so I will ignore the grammar things or the unhinged sentences.

I have read all of Samantha's books. This one is in her same style of dark humour. The Sex and the City chapters might not be everyone's cup of tea depending on if you have seen the show or not.

Besides the in my world unreal things that happen to Samantha, there were lots of moments I had to laugh at her misfortune or just because there are some very recognizable moments.

If you have read her previous books it goes without saying: do not skip this one! I will be preordering it!

As many of you know, Samantha Irby is one of my favorite essayists and humorists out there. Her mix of shameless self-disclosure and biting sense of humor is incomparable. She is the raunchy best friend we all want and the reality check we all need. In her newest book of essays, Quietly Hostile, Irby gifts us yet another collection of irreverent and hysterical essays on everything from her struggles with digestive issues to how she would rewrite the Sex And The City series to her favorite nun-themed lesbian porno flick. I can't tell you how much joy this book has brought me in the one day it has taken me to inhale its contents. My sides hurt from laughing, and I'll be running to the bookstores to get my hands on a copy when it releases this May. You should do the same !

This was my first intro to Samantha Irby and honestly I am on the fence on whether it will be my last! Some of the chapters I really related to and found hilarious, but there were several (like the SATC chapter) that I could not get into. That’s likely just a “me” problem though - I’ve never watched the show, so it didn’t really hit home for me and I was pretty confused (and bored) the entire chapter. The chapters talking about herself, her life and her family were the ones to really shine in my eyes. I’d love to get more of that! Thank you NG for this copy 🤍

Annnnnd that's another fabulous essay collection by Samantha Irby under my belt! Considering I'm a long-time subscriber of her newsletter and I've watched shows she's written for, it's safe to say I'm a fan.

You never know what you're gonna get from a Samantha Irby essay, and as always, these ran the gamut. All of them were strong, but some were stronger than others (as it goes for the vast majority of essay collections!); I particularly loved her writing on Dave Matthews and Sex and the City as well as her ruminations on her complicated family history.

God, some of the ways she phrases mundane parts of life just live rent-free in my mind for months at a time. She has a gift!

I love Samantha Irby!! Five stars if only for the essay called “Oh, so you actually don’t wanna make a show about a horny fat bitch with diarrhea? Okay!” I would have loved a TV show about her life and am even more disappointed now that it won’t ever happen. The only essay I wasn’t thrilled with was “superfan!!!!!!!” but that’s more to do with my never having watched Sex and the City than with Sam’s writing and jokes.

I like it!

Thank you for designing a great book cover to draw me in and introduce me to a new author whose work I can enjoy.

Nun sex bit hilarious and I found ‘wedding guest’ attitude to dressing and reasons for manicures really relatable.

Great cover design

Meh, Quietly Hostile just seemed chaotic and longwinded to me, even compared to Samantha Irby's other titles. She seems to be trying too hard to be funny and leans into a more juvenile/potty-humor style of comedy in this book.

The stories don't have much in common and the order jumps from things around her writing fame to her youth to her body with no throughline. The chapter on Sex and the City drones on despite it being more or less a listicle.

I have no complaints about her style of writing, just that this book lost focus and could have been tidied up a bit.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.