If at Birth You Don't Succeed

This one elicited a lot of feels. It is a solid first book but has some first book tendencies: areas that are slightly stilted, mildly jarring transitions in tone etc, but they are pretty minimal.

More importantly though:
1- i woke my partner up multiple times by laughing uncontrollably, so maybe don't read this in bed if your partner has to wake up early, or on airplanes.
2- Zach Anner's is a necessary voice, describing an experience that the overwhelming majority of people never see and are never confronted with. We need diverse books to combat our narrow preoccupations with our own lives.

Encore! Encore!

Zach Anner delivers his candid and irreverent views on coming of age, finding love, and crapping your pants.

I appreciated Zach's hilarious delivery of a very personal narrative. The book chronicles Zach's incredible 30 year life. His stories inspired me like good vinyl on repeat and I will refer back to them frequently. Being as open as he was is compelling, but I often felt the urge to applaud at regular intervals. I love being around people who hunt positivity and while I don't know Zach personally, I can now have his optimism and zeal in my life at a moment's notice.

I wish him the best of luck and I want more Zach Anner. Consider this my lighter thrust in the sky as I passively beg for an encore.