It's Not Me, It's You: Subjective Recollections from a Terminally Optimistic, Chronically Sarcastic and Occasionally Inebriated Woman

I'm not a big reader. I go to college, so in the little free time I have, I usually choose to watch TV or down vodka. Buttttt, this book was a hilarious and easy read. I read it pretty quickly and enjoyed every minute of it! Great book!

Great read--full of humor and hilarity. I thought the author really gave us something to laugh about as well as something to chew on. I will be recommending this one to friends.

It's Not Me, It's You is a collection of short biographical pieces about Stefanie's own life. Everybody has weirdness in their past, but Stefanie has cults and Russian mafia bosses/porn producers/telemarketers and Hollywood Squares triumphs and drunken little people and frat guys. And this one time when she freebased cocaine. I could summarize each piece without doing anything to diminish the value of actually reading them: because the fun of the book is in the way Stefanie tells the stories. She has spot on comTIMINGedic, something many people who think they're funny just doTIMINGn't have. The stories build, the funny happens, and everyone settles in to wait for the next bit of insanity. Although the book is worth reading for the humour Stefanie stuffs into it, it is also a very personal recollection of growing up and fleeing a broken home, living poorly and dangerously on her own for the first time, losing and finding her father and trying to deal with how human he is. Although not a strict narrative biography, the connections between the essays work, and the picture Stefanie draws of who she is feels full and bursting. Buy this book. I have a lot of feelings because of it. You too will have a lot of feelings because of it. It would make a great Christmas present. It would also make a great Labor Day present, Halloween present, Veterans' Day present, or Thanksgiving present, but I didn't manage to get my act together soon enough for that. You'll have to settle for Christmas.

IT'S NOT ME, IT'S YOU offers a lively, involving and introspective autobiography that takes the form of essays showing how a New York Jewish girl became a Hollywood produce and writer. Her journey's highlights and pitfalls are narrated in a fun and lively voice perfect for any general lending library strong in narratives about Hollywood successes.

I'm pretty picky within this genre, but I read this funny, poignant memoir in two sittings! If you've ever been young in a big city, or grew up in a fractured family, you will recognize most of the situations that this author finds herself in. Coming from a dysfunctional family with a semi-famous dad who wanted to be fully famous, she had some screwed up situations in childhood to deal with, but clearly came out with sense of humor fully intact. There are sad junctures in some stories , but the author brings each one around to integrate them into her central theme of crafting a functional, happy adulthood out of a fractured chaotic start. The non linear story telling works nicely with this theme being the spine that binds it together. I read mostly political stuff, but am also a big Austen Burroughs fan, and like some Sedaris. This reads like Burroughs early edgy stuff. A must read.