In the style of hilarious American essayists such as Sedaris, Vowell and Klosterman, Sloane Crosley shares her peculiar life for our reading delight. My favorite essay was certainly "The Pony Problem" which much to my chagrin resonated with my own foibles and quirks. This is what I found the most wonderful about her writing, you weren't laughing at her, but with her as she clearly sees the absurd in the situations she describes.

"Bring Your Machete to Work Day" as well as "Lay Like Broccoli" are also on the top of my list as smart, genuine and uproarious in their insights and unique view of experiences I have shared (playing Oregon Trail and being a lapsed vegetarian, respectively). Full of many original sentences one of my favorites was "Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there".

To the credit of our uber-technology loving culture, the book has a website and on that website a video! And honestly, I have never seen a better "ad" for a book in my life. If the clip doesn't want to make you read the book, you are a stronger person that I am.