This book’s been teasing me from the spinning shelf at the library for a while now. When I went researching for this week’s recommended book list for the word Success, this one definitely came up… and I immediately decided it would be the book I read this week. (crossing my fingers that I followed through.)
Anyway… it was still waiting for me at the library and I picked it up last night. You know it’s going to be a great book when you’re on the first page and you find something that makes you want to write it down so you can read it again later.
This book is like that… I’m barely into it, and I’ve already taken pictures and notes (drat library books!) to look back on again later.
Teaser 1, I didn’t even make it into the book… it’s from the preface, page XV
You do it because the doing of the it is the thing. The doing is the thing. The talking and worrying and thinking is not the thing. That is what I know. Writing the book is about writing the book.
Teaser 2, dang I still haven’t made it out of the preface, page xix
Yes please sounds powerful and concise. It’s a response and a request. It’s not about being a good girl; it’s about being a real woman.
Have you guessed it yet? Yep… it’s Yes Please by Amy Poehler. 🙂
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
Published by Dey Street Books on October 27th 2015
Genres: Memoir
Pages: 352
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Do you want to get to know the woman we first came to love on Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade? Do you want to spend some time with the lady who made you howl with laughter on Saturday Night Live, and in movies like Baby Mama, Blades of Glory, and They Came Together? Do you find yourself daydreaming about hanging out with the actor behind the brilliant Leslie Knope on Parks and Recreation? Did you wish you were in the audience at the last two Golden Globes ceremonies, so you could bask in the hilarity of Amy's one-liners?
If your answer to these questions is "Yes Please!" then you are in luck. In her first book, one of our most beloved funny folk delivers a smart, pointed, and ultimately inspirational read. Full of the comedic skill that makes us all love Amy, Yes Please is a rich and varied collection of stories, lists, poetry (Plastic Surgery Haiku, to be specific), photographs, mantras and advice. With chapters like "Treat Your Career Like a Bad Boyfriend," "Plain Girl Versus the Demon" and "The Robots Will Kill Us All" Yes Please will make you think as much as it will make you laugh. Honest, personal, real, and righteous, Yes Please is full of words to live by.
I’ll be back with a full review on Friday, so stop back by.
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