“A word about apologizing: It’s hard to do it without digging yourself in deeper. It’s also scary and that’s why we avoid the pain. We want so badly to plead our case and tell our story. The bad news is that everybody has a story. Everyone has a version of how things went down and how they participated.” I listened to Amy Poehler and guests read Yes Please. I highly recommend it. One of my missions in life is to encourage women to be kinder to […]
“That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. Good for her! Not for me.”
I took a much-needed break from Outlander-ing last week to enjoy Amy Poehler’s Yes Please for a second time — this time on audiobook. I’m happy to say it’s still a great book, and the audio version was a lot of fun. “Hopefully as you get older, you start to learn how to live with your demon. It’s hard at first. Some people give their demon so much room that there is no space in their head or bed for love. They feed their demon and it […]
I know I am in the minority here, but I was kind of disappointed…
I wish I could tell you there is a specific reason why I didn’t like this book, but I can’t. Not really. There was nothing wrong with it. I guess it just didn’t resonate with me. I’ve started to think maybe I threw myself with too much gusto into the genre and it finally came back to bite me. I’ve read Scrappy Little Nobody (which I thought was great), Talking as Fast as I Can (which was good, not great), Bossypants (which I really liked) […]
Amy Poehler – Funny Lady, Spirit Animal, A-mah-zing
Loved it so much, this is my second time around listening, and it was just as delightful as the first. If you like Amy Poehler, you need to read it. I’d recommend this book for just about anyone, as it is laugh out loud funny and very relatable. I’m not a parent, but I still was able to enjoy her stories of pregnancy and motherhood, not just for the insight they gave me into Poehler, but to the insight they give into the human experience. […]
My favorite book of the year: Poelher for the W!
I would like to give this book 10 out of 5 stars, or 100 out of 5. All the stars! I went into this with pretty high expectations because I love Amy Poehler as she is a strong, amazing, funny woman, but this book just blew me away. First of all, the audiobook is where it’s at. Not only does she read it herself, but there are bits read by Kathleen Turner, Carol freaking Burnett and Sir Patrick freaking Stewart. And if celebrity cameos aren’t […]
Yes Please!
Amy Poehler’s Yes Please is just the right mix of professional and personal essays that I think I wanted out of Lena Dunham’s memoir, and with more relateable life experience, since I consider myself more of Amy’s generation than Lena’s. I’m 36 so I’m in between them, but my resistance to new technology and fondness for 90s alternative rock puts me squarely in Generation X, I decided. In Yes Please, Amy writes a series of essays covering her childhood in New England, finding success but […]