Bookish Basorexia: Yes Please

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Amy Poehler?

Yes Please.

Don't mind if I will.

(*・∀・*) THIS BOOK! (*・∀・*)

You know what I love more than Parks and Rec?

Amy Poehler talking about Parks and Rec. That show is the best and it's about to end. I promise not to cry through this review...and the rest of the last season.

Yes Please is the first book Amy Poehler has written and it's pretty much about her life. How she started out, her family, her friends, her work and it's filled with pictures and other miscellaneous funny stuff. There is quite a bit about advice of different things but most of all it's super fun and ~~funny~~ ~~hilarious~~ uproarious. Yes, U P R O A R I O U S. What a great word.

To start of let me mention that this is a humour, memoir. If you don't know who Amy Poehler is...where have you been? and I highly, highly recommend you start watching Parks and Recreation if you need a substitute for The Office or if you just need a new TV show to watch because it's a hilarious show!

Amy is also good friends with Tina Fey (please, you have to know who Tina Fey is!) and they have both hosted the Golden Globes quite a few times I believe (2013, 2014, 2015 psshhhhhh). I really love them. Considering recent events when they hosted the 2015 Golden Globes and joked about North Korea and rape, I have not excused them for that because that was nothing to be joking about but I'm here to review this book not them. Also nobody's perfect, they probably learnt from that anyways.

I'm pretty sure this book is aimed for adults but who even cares! I mean like, yes, there is advice on careers/yourself/relationships/friendships/children blah blah blah but it's all good and funny. Preparing me for my future; now I know what not to do. It was very heartwarming for Amy to talk about her life and her family; how she started from the bottom (shoutout to Drake) and now she's doing better than ever. There is an aspect of this book that bored me but that's only because I'm not yet an adult that has to do adult things, there is also a lot of her writing about her acting career which I also sort of got bored of reading...but only because I didn't know half the people she was writing about. There is also a whole chapter dedicated to the Parks and Rec squad so I'm not complaining, YES PLEASE!

You could say that this is my first ever memoir that I have read. Memoirs/autobiographies/non-fiction/classics are not my scene. I genuinely don't like reading them and that is why I have yet to finish: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me by Mindy Kaling, Not That Kind Of Girl by Lena Dunham (both of which are on my 'Currently Reading' shelf on your right) and I have yet to read Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg. Don't get me wrong, I try really hard to be able to read everything and that is why I force myself to at least try but I don't know how long I'll be keeping this up. However this book was different, I'm not exactly sure if it's because it was more interactive and there were visuals but I enjoyed it thoroughly. When I say interactive I don't mean 'Wreck This Journal' interactive, I mean that it was much more relatable and you get to understand and experience Amy's world.

*i feel like this is a good time to mention that i'm drinking chamomile/honey tea and it tastes like flower and i keep sniffing it*

Another thing I would like to address is that this book isn't about comedy or how to be funny. I wish that I read more memoirs just so I could compare, for example Tina Fey's Bossypants but I'm a virgin to memoirs and this is my first. In this book she really delves into her career more than anything; how she got her job at SNL and quite a lot of simple improve she was doing in NYC. This book isn't about comedy and it's not a comedy book, it's simply Yes Please. This could be classified as a 'self help' book but then again not really. Like I see what you're saying and what you're getting at but nah. The advice in this book (personally) is top notch and really good (and very funny). It's a very good, solid book. I thoroughly savoured this. Why I gave it a three stars? I don't know, I just wasn't feeling the 4 or 5.

I'm glad this was my debut memoir because they can be really enjoyable if written and produced well. This had everything that the other two memoirs I'm trying to tackle didn't have. That is exactly why I actually finished it and revelled it. Can I also just say this photo shoot she did for the front cover is fantastic and basically sums up Amy Poehler. I love her.

This book is also one of the goodreads 'best books of 2014' that readers voted on for the humour category.