#i'm judging you by luvvie ajayi

[jamietukpahwriting]

Feminism should fight for all women to have the right to live as they choose, not for all women to live the same exact lives like we’re all in some sort of Sims game.

—I'm Judging You by Luvvie Ajayi

[piratefalls]

What are your top 10 favorite books?

hi friend! sorry this took so long, but it required some thought and my brain took an extended vacation! in no particular order, these are 10 books that got me thinking or got me all up in my feels.

Red, White, and Royal Blue, but that kind of goes without saying at this point.

You, With a View by Jessica Joyce

Hunger: A Memoir of My Body by Roxane Gay

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi Jones

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro

Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies by Michael Ausiello

+1 Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

authors i've read just about everything they've written: Tess Gerritsen, Christopher Buckley, Jonathan Tropper, Kasey Michaels, Jennifer Crusie, Rachel Gibson

ask me my top 5/10 anything!

[vatt-world]

hi

Julia Alvarez Tahereh Mafi Diana Abu-Jaber Yasmin Crowther: Jenny Lawson ohn Kennedy Tool Dave Barry: Terry Pratchett Stephen Fry Spike Milligan Bill Bryson Maeve Higgins Christopher Moore Sloane Crosley "I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual" by Luvvie Ajayi: "Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations" Jenny Lawson (The Bloggess): Augusten Burroughs: "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood" P.G. Wodehouse Jonas Jonasson ( Amy Tan My Family and Other Animals" by Gerald Durrell: Born Confused" by Tanuja Desai Hidier "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" by Lynne Truss: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian" by Marina Lewycka: Jhumpa Lahiri: How to Be Black" by Baratunde Thurston Nora Ephron Erich Kästner

"The Tent, The Bucket and Me" by Emma Kennedy: Emma Kennedy's memoir offers a hilarious account of her family's disastrous camping trips in 1970s Britain, filled with mishaps, misadventures, and laugh-out-loud moments.

"Notes from a Small Island" by Bill Bryson: Bill Bryson's memoir recounts his journey through Britain, offering humorous observations on its quirks, customs, and idiosyncrasies as an American expatriate.

"Bridget Jones's Diary" by Helen Fielding: While technically a novel, Bridget Jones's diary-style memoir offers a humorous and relatable look at the life of a single woman in London, navigating relationships, career, and the quest for self-improvement.

"Don't Point That Thing at Me" by Kyril Bonfiglioli: This darkly humorous novel follows the exploits of Charlie Mortdecai, a charmingly roguish art dealer, as he gets embroiled in a series of absurd and comical misadventures.

"A Year in Provence" by Peter Mayle: Peter Mayle's memoir chronicles his experiences living in the South of France, offering humorous anecdotes and charming insights into the joys and challenges of adapting to life in a new culture.

"The Great Railway Bazaar" by Paul Theroux: Paul Theroux's travel memoir offers a humorous and insightful account of his journey by train through Asia, capturing the sights, sounds, and eccentric characters he encounters along the way.

"The Outback House" by Leonie Norrington: This memoir follows Leonie Norrington's family as they leave city life behind to live in the Australian outback, offering humorous and heartwarming tales of their adventures and misadventures in the bush.

"Out of Africa" by Isak Dinesen: Isak Dinesen's memoir offers a lyrical and humorous account of her experiences living on a coffee plantation in colonial Kenya, capturing the beauty, romance, and challenges of life in Africa.

"Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China" by Rachel DeWoskin: Rachel DeWoskin's memoir offers a humorous and candid look at her experiences as a young American woman living and working in Beijing, navigating cultural differences, romance, and the complexities of modern China.

"Cider with Rosie" by Laurie Lee: Laurie Lee's memoir offers a humorous and nostalgic look at his childhood in a small English village, capturing the innocence, wonder, and mischief of youth in rural Britain. François Rabelais Azar Nafisi: Marjane Satrapi

[womeninfictionandirl]

Luvvie Ajayi by Anjini Maxwell

Luvvie Ajayi (born Ifeoluwa Ajayi on January 5, 1985), also known as Luvvie Ajayi Jones, is a Nigerian–American author, speaker, and digital strategist. Her book, I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual, was a New York Times best-seller.

[books-in-media]

Adelaide Kane, (Instagram, June 12, 2020)

—I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual, Luvvie Ajayi Jones (2016)

[hobbiesovercoffee]

I am once again rediscovering my love for my Fire Tablet that only use for ebooks. Thanks to @teapotsonfire I’m finally reading Luvvie’s book. I’ve been a long time fan of her and feel horrible that I’ve waited this long to read her book. It’s filled with so much great insight and off the bat I fell in love with it because she includes herself in her writings, it’s never this is what You need to do or what they need to do, she says we. We as a society need to do better. Love this book #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #booksof2018 #ebooks #luvvieajayi #imjudgingyoubook #imjudgingyouthedobettermanual #awesomleyluvvie

[blackisnotamonolith]

Luvvie Ajayi

[whilereadingandwalking]

I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual is written by Luvvie Ajayi, a sort of adaptation of the tone and judgments of her blog, Awesomely Luvvie, into book form. 

The adaptation didn’t totally work for me. By adapting her work into longer, more generalized chapters around central themes—a chapter about cleanliness, another about religion—a lot of the punchiness and sting of her critiques gets lost. Each chapter feels like it needs to capture every last corner of the topic being addressed, and so the essays lack structure and coherence, drifting from topic to topic—acting, for example, as a general judgment against all racists. Which is good stuff—but it’s very general stuff. Some of the essays are still fantastic. Her religion essay has a very personal touch that makes it particularly interesting, and her sections on social media address specific issues and themes of social media—from hashtag overuse or misuse to over-sharing your relationship problems and successes on platforms—which helps to maintain the legendary zing that Luvvie is so well known for. In the end, I sped through the social media section (I’m going to use the phrase “Real Gs gotta move in silence like gnomes”), and enjoyed the essay on religion, as well as her story about the privilege exercise, but skimmed over much of the rest.

[studyingismyraisondetre]

Luvvie Ajayi’s I’m Judging You 

“Common sense has tragically become the rarest flower in the thought garden.”

I’m a firm believer in minimizing my social media presence.  I rarely post to my Facebook, I recently signed up for Instagram so I can admire book bloggers’ photos and I don’t have a twitter account.  To me, these outlets have been quite shallow and superficial in that they’re all about one-upmanship.  I’m sure people say the same about the booklr community, but I’ve really enjoyed my time here and the content is all about the things I love: books, coffee and studying. 

I can’t wait to really get into the meat of this book.  

Update: it’s mostly a huge book of rants a lot of good ones and a lot of annoying ones. The author quoted Maya Angelou about if you can’t find the book you want to read then you should write it. I have a hard time believing she wanted to read a book about someone whining constantly.    My rating: 🌟 🌟 🌟 (humor saved this book for me otherwise I would have given it just two stars).

[books-i-once-read]

I'm not sure if I'm thankful for the undeniable proof that racism is still all around us, or wishful for the days when we could be tricked into thinking things were not so bad.

I'm Judging You by Luvvie Ajayi

[ifjanetranit]

I read a book, yo! I think I saw this recommended as a summer read, and I’m a fan of essay collections, because they’re easy to read on the train. I was not a follower of AwesomelyLuvvie.com, but I might be now after reading this funny collection that dishes out some straight talk. Good stuff.

From Amazon: With over 500,000 readers a month at her enormously popular blog, AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi is a go-to source for smart takes on pop culture. I'm Judging You is her debut book of humorous essays that dissects our cultural obsessions and calls out bad behavior in our increasingly digital, connected lives. It passes on lessons and side-eyes on life, social media, culture, and fame, from addressing those terrible friends we all have to serious discussions of race and media representation to what to do about your fool cousin sharing casket pictures from Grandma's wake on Facebook.

With a lighthearted, razor sharp wit and a unique perspective, I'm Judging You is the handbook the world needs, doling out the hard truths and a road map for bringing some "act right" into our lives, social media, and popular culture. It is the Do-Better Manual.

[jamietukpahwriting]

We proudly wear our religious identities on our sleeves and timelines, shouting them from rooftops and Facebook posts as loudly as we can, condemning those who don’t believe as we do. Being a person of faith should be less about talking, and more about action, specifically: living a life based on love. We are too busy saying what Christianity is to actually live the principles that instruct us to serve humankind and treat each other with compassion.

—I'm Judging You by Luvvie Ajayi

[piratefalls]

Sleepover weekend! Your rec lists are top tier sooooooo rec us something (anything) that ISN'T fic. Fandom-related or not! Books? Stores? That One Kitchen Gadget You Can't Live Without?

xoxo MJ/kiwiana-writes

i love talking about books and other media!!! (bonus kitchen gadget rec at the end for making it that far.)

Books:

Anger is A Gift by Mark Oshiro

Beach Read by Emily Henry

This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

For those who enjoy political satire, anything by Christopher Buckley

I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi Jones

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Never Let Me Go by Kazoo Ishiguro

Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor

Movies (including my list of ones I rewatch):

Moonlight

Clue

The Meg

Knives Out

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

The Man from Uncle

San Andreas

Fast Five

Ocean's Thirteen

Mel Brooks movies, specifically Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, History of the World

The Wave (Norwegian disaster movie, one of the best tbh)

Downfall or Flight/Risk (because Boeing sucks and everyone should know it)

The Velocipastor. Go in completely blind. I promise when you think you have it figured out, you don't.

(as for that kitchen gadget, spend the money on a good meat thermometer and thank me later.)

sleepover weekend asks!

[toxicrocket]

What I'm currently reading.

[just-prince-things]

There are some moments that are so awesome – and so awesomely BLACK – that every time we mention it, any black person within earshot will chime in with a “Mmmhm, yep. I remember that.”

The time Prince caught Patti LaBelle’s shoe is one of THOSE moments.

It was the 2010 BET Awards show and, as they do every year, BET honored a music legend. In this case, Prince. The network asked a very diverse group of performers to honor Prince by singing his songs to him. A very pregnant Alicia Keys writhed around on a piano (not hitting every key), Janelle Monáe did her quirky cool Monáe thing…

and then Patti came out.

Patti LaBelle…in all her down home, wing flapping, note shattering glory. She SANG and Prince paid attention. When Patti was in the middle of ‘Purple Rain’ and started kicking off her shoes – because that is what she does – Prince got up and CAUGHT ONE.

LOOK at Prince…holding that Louboutin so high, with such a serene look on his face. You would swear the man had just been touched by Jesus himself. Adding to the awesomeness of this moment: the outfit. He’s got a picture of himself on his bell-sleeved tunic. Who but him could rock an outfit like this? And, what man besides Prince can rock a bell-sleeved tunic and still look sexy? I’d be remiss if I didn’t also mention his hair. LAID. 

It’s not often that we get to see two music legends – legends who just happen to be black – play off of each other in this way. Because of that, and because Prince and Patti are both so fabulously flashy, this moment is definitely an Awesome Moment in Blackness --(Awesomely) Luvvie Ajayi  (x)