Is Everyone Hanging Out With Me?

Written By Omma Ahmed
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Is Everyone Hanging Out With Me? by Mindy Kaling
Reviewed by Omma
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So I am a Mindy fan and secretly would love to be best friends with her! I hinted (not so subtly) to my sisters to buy this for my birthday and was happily surprised when they did, so I was really looking forward to reading this. I got through it in a few hours and it was an enjoyable random read but it wasn’t laugh out loud funny like I’d hoped. I was slightly disappointed because I expected to love it but having said that, you do feel like you know her a little better as the book has a very casual conversational tone and she does come across as very warm intelligent and humorous so I’ll continue to support her and will still buy her new book in the hopes that I love it! I’m not sure what you can take from that review lol maybe a book worth borrowing from a friend rather than buying?

Omma Ahmed

I’ve always loved reading as a kid because it was one of the few Asian-mum approved hobbies although she would have preferred ‘less novels and more school books’! I also grew up in the Harry Potter era so that’s when I really remember falling in love with reading. (Big up my Y7 English teacher for reading a few pages of Philosophers stone at the end of every lesson! You were a real one Mr Williams!) I love being part of this book page (even though I slack massively due to lack of energy and concentration!) because sometimes it felt like a lifeline to help keep me sane. We started it during the time I was feeling really shitty about my Crohn’s disease. It’s been a tough 7 years and the last 3 have probably been the hardest especially mentally so when Linda suggested putting this page together, without hesitation I was down and I’m so proud of us! Writing reviews helped me to organise my thoughts and even resulted in me creating a second Instagram page (@AnOstomateForLife) about my Crohn’s journey. Yes that was a shameless plug and I’m not sorry! Along with reviews, I’ve also loved the creative side of things such as having input in our logo, creating our bookmark and taking book pictures even though it’s awkward af in public! So a few of my fave books: The Godfather by Mario Puzo (made me love the film even more! I’m a self-proclaimed movie buff too btw), Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Healy, The Harry Potter series (obviously), Jemima J by Jane Green, Moonlight over Manhattan by Sarah Morgan, Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple and We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Adichie.

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