Books of my people

So I went through one of those 50 BOOKS YOU MUST READ BEFORE BLAh blah blah lists
and I pulled out some that actually sounded interesting
specifically I read Bossypants by Tina Fey and How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
I preferred Caitlin Moran, it might be because she is British? I was raised with a sort of British sense of humor (as much as you can in the US without being raised entirely on Doctor Who and Masterpiece Theater reruns on PBS).  I like that she messed up a lot, made an ass of herself and still kept moving forward.
Bossypants made me love Tina Fey a little bit for being from Pennsylvania and for not being able to drive and feeling like a horrible person for it while her husband drove for hours across the state to visit various parts of their families, I have been there, I have so done that. I am probably also a horrible person for making my husband doing all the driving (and for many, many other reasons) but he for some reason loves me anyway (some day I will figure out why).
Through reading both of these and thebloggess I have come to realize that there are a whole host of other women out there who are rather like me, gawky and awkward, who would rather sit at home reading books, watching Netflix and eating cookies than go out and you know like....talk...to people. It's not that I don't like people, it's just that I don't understand why they can't just come to me instead. I sort of love that there is this whole trove of women rising up going I am not really pretty or supremely intelligent and I regularly fall over while walking, but I am clever and I can be funny and I know how to get along with men without showing them my boobs and that is why I am awesome.
I think we really need this trend to keep moving forward.

Now then, I am going to go bake some cupcakes.
Hell yea