'Little Weirds' by jennyslate reminds us to take pleasure in the small things.
Jenny Slate was born in March. “I was born on the boundary line between hot and cold,” she writes, “at the intersection of the two elements that make a clap of thunder.” Slate’s book of essays,is a lot like that, a collection of clever lines from a talented writer and comedian, and extremely worth your time. But almost as a bonus, it manages to be a lot more too; something more profound.
A girls-only getaway that leads to a fantasy make-out with a rabbit. A trip to Norway, amid heartbreak, isolating and crushing for the sheer fact of watching other people be normal and move on. An attempt to write an online dating profile that begins: “I am a plant and I have a fragile green stem and my flower is still in the pod on the top of the stalk, unopened, when the dawn strolls in over the horizon.
is a book about the hazards of love. Loving love, the feeling of it, being burned by it. Hating your past loves, not because of what was lost, but because it took something of your ability to love easily and smoothly ever again; from the highs — “Love seemed big too, like an elephant that you can have if you are good” — to the lows — “I am heartbroken over no one, over having nobody to wish for, nobody to hope for.
Through it all, Slate’s voice never loses its capacity for strangeness, for finding it in the littlest, weirdest corners of its own psyche. It’s this mix of sweet and sadness, real stakes and dreamy prose, that gives this book its soft, sharp, and altogether overwhelming power. Like René Magritte crossed with
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