Everything is Perfect When You're a Liar
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Everything in this book is true. The time Kelly peed her pants in the gas station. The time she stalked Leonardo DiCaprio through Los Angeles as a stoned teenager. The time she used her son’s diaper explosion to get out of a speeding ticket. And especially the time she was convinced David Copperfield could read her mind. Kelly’s more than half a million Twitter followers already knew she was hilarious, and Everything Is Perfect When You’re a Liar has proven it, spending months on the bestseller list, earning her love from both reviewers and readers, and proving “not only has she mastered the 140-character barb, but the long-form essay as well.”* Kelly’s adventures are now in paperback, with a brand-new story about how she and her husband, James, got married to fulfill their son’s desire to be a ring bearer. (But blew it, by forgetting a crucial detail.) From childhood to motherhood, from the zany to the tearjerking, Kelly covers it all and proves that when you live life unapologetically, there’s no need to lie.
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She's a Canadian Twitter superstar. So that's a thing now I guess? “But she's been retweeted by Roger Ebert and Jimmy Kimmel! – and she's from Calgary!” It's that me-too Canadian reflex that infects us as a nation and has us uttering things like “You know Maria Hill from S.H.I.E.L.D is Canadian right?”
Despite being consciously jealous of her ability to write for a living based on having been discovered via Twitter. I still really liked the book. It's not easy writing all about yourself without it becoming all about yourself. But maybe I'm in the minority. A good chunk of readers found it narcissistic and humble-braggy - the reflections of a clearly attractive, privileged white girl.
C'mon - this is someone who's been given a book deal based on 140 character observations. You'd think the resurrected ghost of Dorthy Parker dropped this book the way it's being savaged. It was fun. But then I'm a fan of mind-reading monkeys, elbow semen, 6-year old stagings of Star Wars, underage car puking and bad judgement meeting good luck.