I love Samantha Irby's wit and humor. I've read all of her essay collections and was delighted to receive a copy of Quietly Hostile. Any author who reviews episodes of Judge Mathis and can humorously tackle IBS is someone to read in my book.

Many thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for sharing this book with me. All thoughts are my own.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing an advance copy in exchange for honest feedback.

Huge Samantha Irby fan. Such a hilarious writer. This just wasn't my favorite of hers. Hard not to compare it to her other collections when she has such an impressive body of work!

Cutting, incisive and hilarious. This was my first Samantha Irby book and I now plan to be a completist. The way she honestly shares about the complexities of adult family relationships while also providing an in depth retrospective about sex in the city is masterful.

3.5 stars.

How was this my first introduction to Samantha Irby? How did I not know she was Black? Oof. I feel dumb. lol. Some of the essays were funny. Some were completely off the wall (reimagining Sex and the City episodes? But why? -Nothing- else to write about?!). But Irby's honesty won me out. Plus the skunk screaming on the cover is pure *chef's kiss*

This was requested when I first found out about NetGalley and I had requested so many ARCs that I could not get to all of them before they were archived. I really wanted to get to this one, as it seemed interesting. If I can find this somewhere for a reasonable price, I will try to get it! I am giving this book three stars, as I don't want to give it a good or bad rating, since I did not get to it and we have to leave a star rating.

Another win by Samantha Irby! I love this collection of essays told in her own voice. They are raw and pure and true. It shines through in her storytelling that they come from a real place, which translates to a great read. I laughed out loud a few times and felt for her. Very human. I don't often read true essays besides articles in periodicals, but this one was a good time.

I love non fiction essays. They almost always come out of the blue and pleasantly surprise me, if they are well written.

When I started reading quietly hostile, I got that feeling. I was hooked on the narrative of the pandemic life. But honestly, the dry writing style - which I was initially drawn to, was exactly what tired me. I didn't finish this book in one sitting, but it was a fun ride with dollops of dark humor to accompany us.

Not her strongest collection, but still a fun, funny, and insightful trip through the last few years, especially the pandemic and the Sex and the City reboot.

If I could give this more than a perfect score I would. Again, Irby has me laughing until I cry and rereading some stories over and over again.

5/5 stars

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with an e-arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This was a hilarious set of short stories. Irby is hysterical and this was such a fun, quick read. I found myself laughing out loud at times and wanting to highlight portions to send to friends.

I'm a huge fan of Samantha Irby. She has a singular voice and never fails to make me laugh, even when she's writing about deeply sad topics. She is an auto-buy, auto-recommend.

I generally really enjoy Samantha Irby I just have started to wish that she was a bit more edited. If you enjoy Dave Matthews Band and Sex and the City a lot then you'll really enjoy this book. For me, the fact that so much time was spent on those two topics and her moving to much into poop humor for my tastes means this is one of my less favorite books of hers.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Vintage Anchor for the advanced review copy of this book.

Like her previous works before it, Quietly Hostile is a series of hilarious, relatable slice of life essays about the various mishaps and happenings in Irby's life. She writes about the pilot for a TV show about her first book, which never aired, and about the hate she got for being a part of the Sex and the City reboot writer's room. As always, we also get to hear plenty of tales from the bathroom.

I am mildly obsessed with this book's title, and Irby does use it to describe herself at least once in the book. I never have much to say about the experience with these books except that I laughed, I cringed, I loved it. The level of candor and frankness in Irby's writing gives it a unique bite of humor and also crude truth about the experience of being a human with a body. Sometimes that means I have to pause my audiobook during lunch, but it's worth it.

This may be my favorite of her books to date and I definitely recommend it to anyone who enjoys a personal essay collection with a good sense of humor, who can also handle a few poop jokes because they will happen. Always.

QUICK TAKE: loved it. no notes. if you like Irby, you'll like this. nuff said. Audiobook was excellent.

I love Irby, but this was not their best work. Some of the essays were wonderful and on par with what I expect from them. Others were lacking.

This book wasn't for me. The crude humor went too far for my taste. While some of the essays were laugh out loud funny, a line was crossed when the author went beyond what was necessary to describe her bathroom experiences.

Reading a Samantha Irby book is like nothing else. I love her humor, but more than that, I love her approach to navigating or writing about something hard with humor.

She had me laughing and she got me to cry (usually mad about crying at a book, but for this ONE BOOK I will let it slide). Did she make me want to listen to Dave Matthews Band songs other than "Crash Into Me"? YES. Did that shock me? YES! But I loved hearing her just share about the things she loves and it made me want to love them too and celebrate the things that I love.

But for real, she is doing the lord's work asking people to not squat while they pee and spray all of their pee all over the toilet seat.

Big 'ol heart eyes for Samantha Irby foralways.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC.

Quietly Hostile is hysterical. I've never read anything like it so Samantha Irby definitely gets some bonus points for originality! My favorite chapters were david matthews's greatest romantic hits, how to look cool in front of teens, food fight, and please invite me to your party. There were a couple chapters that I had to completely skip because I thought they were way too much (the nuns and the peeing thing) but I also felt like I got to know the author better reading this and figured that is just her crazy and chaotic personal brand. I want to go back now and read her other two books. Funny women are the backbone of this country! Thank you to NetGalley, Vintage Anchor, and the author for sharing this ARC with me in exchange for my honest feedback!

This book is so hilarious and at times squicky!! Her stories had me belly laughing and grimacing all at once. Her humor is one of a kind!
If you've loved her other books, you will love this one!