Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be

This was a very well written memoir/essay collection. I have followed Nichole online for a while now, but this was the first of her books that I have read. I chose to listen to the audiobook and am glad that I did, as it is Nichole herself that narrates it! I have always loved it when books are narrated by the author.
The stories within this book were both moving and funny, serious and lighthearted. The perfect balance of stories and anecdotes, if you ask me!

It was a pretty solid read, Perkins has a very pleasant prose and she comes across as honest, vulnerable in her own way, intelligent and fun.

I had to smile when she said that white men's skin feels like Playdoh because while I wouldn't put it quite like that I know exactly what she means and that's actually something I find endearing.
This book isn't about pop culture in the way that a lot of recent/semi-recent collections of essays are, this one is way more personal and I think its treatment of pop culture comes across as more organic to how we experience pop culture when talking about it isn't our job.

There's a fair amount of talk about sex and descriptions of intimate moment, not a bad thing just something to be aware of (at least for some of us). There's also a little bit about religion and about the author's autistic brother and her relationship with him (it's not done in a woe is me I have an autistic in my life but Perkins does describe the period in time where she, as a child, prayed for her brother to be made normal, so again just something to be aware of).

Part essays collection and part memoir, no rating because I don't rate memoirs.

The bulk of the essays were engaging but for me they got a bit repetitive toward the end.