Koul’s essays are witty, sharp, modern, and relevant, and her reading voice is a pleasure to hear. This debut essay collection from Buzzfeed Canada culture writer Scaachi Koul harnesses her biting humor to shed light on the experience of growing up as the daughter of Indian immigrants in Canada. One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul Also read by the author, this audiobook will breeze right by and leave you laughing. After the success of her sitcom The Mindy Project, Kaling hearkens back to childhood and uses her silly sense of humor to describe her entrée into show business, impostor syndrome, and super-modern feelings like FOMO. Kaling’s story dovetails (and sometimes overlaps with) with Bossypants. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling With miles of unchanging interstate ahead, my mind would often wander, and I’d have trouble paying attention to the two-ton piece of machinery I was piloting through aggressive traffic. Driving to visit relatives and friends alone on the road for ten plus hours used to really wear on me. This wasn’t always something to be pumped about. The school year is ready to relinquish its captives (like me) into the vacation heat, and I am totally psyched because summer for me has always been road trip season. I can already imagine it: my hands on the scorching steering wheel, AC blasting, long stretches of I-95 bumping under my tires. Just for Book Riot readers: sign up for an Audible account, and get two hilarious nonfiction audiobooks free! When not reading, hiking, blogging, traveling, exploring, or playing with her dog Daisy Buchanan (and never sleeping!), Rebecca binge watches TV shows like The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and plots world domination via Twitter. A seventh-generation Floridian, Rebecca's main area of study has been the ecology, culture, and downright weirdness of her home. Her essays have been featured in the Washington Post, New York Magazine, and Glamour. In short, it’s everything you could ask for in a book.Rebecca Renner is a writer and editor out of South Florida. It’s also a story of aging punk rock stars, wildly imagined aliens, and the beauty and stupidity of life as we know it. It’s a touching, deeply universal story of connection, perseverance, and what it means to be human. Thus begins Decibel’s journey as he navigates the narrowing rules of the contest, but also his efforts to tackle his own self-doubt and the many (many) scars from his past. How high stakes? Oh, just determining whether the human race will be welcomed into the universe or wiped from existence. What happens when you cross the sci-fi wackiness of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with the glam rock lifestyle of Eurovision? You get the delightful, bouncing disco ball of a novel, Space Opera! Revolving around has-been rockstar Decibel Jones, Space Opera opens with the collective lifeforms of the galaxy making first contact with Earth - specifically, with Decibel, who they have selected to represent humanity in a high-stakes, intergalactic musical contest. ⭐ For more books that discuss race, check out our guide to African American Literature. Narrated in Nicole Lewis' confident (and confidential) tone, Such a Fun Age is one of those best audiobooks that feels like listening to a friend confess the latest details of their own life. Thus begins a plot that could only happen in the present day, as Emira struggles to navigate racial issues and potential social media scandals, all while trying to hold together a job, a social life, and some semblance of sanity. One night, in an effort to keep Alix’s daughter out of the house during a family emergency, Emira takes young Briar to the grocery store, where they’re confronted by a security guard wanting to know what this Black woman is doing with a white child. Alix - white, married, successful in a private blogging enterprise - hires Emira to be a regular babysitter of her two kids. This thoroughly modern novel revolves around Emira, a 25-year-old Black woman desperately trying to make ends meet, and Alix, her peer by age but not by social status.
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