The Madwoman and the Roomba by Sandra Tsing Loh

Amazon recommended this memoir to me, and I added it to my "quarantine order".  Among the quoted reviews was "hilarious, snarky, insightful", "wildly funny", "funniest writer writing today".  I expected a hilarious view on every day life.  All the things that go wrong in our typical day that if we don't laugh about them, we'd cry.  I was really expecting something similar to South of the Etowah, which is on display as one of my faves.  Raymond Atkins made a washing machine funny.  So, I had high hopes here.

I did not laugh.  Not even once.  I smiled a few times.  This was really not funny at all.  White (Chinese-German), wealthy (Malibu, CA), and whiny (please just stop complaining) is a better tagline.  I kept reading just to see if the funny stuff came later.  It didn't. 

I'm also angry Amazon sent me one with a damaged bottom corner and cover.  Not wanting to deal with sending it back for a replacement, I said whatevs.  I now believe this was actually a returned and resold copy.  Likely because it's not worthy to be kept.  I don't plan to put this in the collection.  Instead it'll be on the free shelf. You know a new book has to be pretty bad for me to do that.

Sorry, but a no. 

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