Book Review: Yes Please by Amy Poehler

Hey Guys!!

This review is going to be over Amy Poehler's book Yes Please. First thing I want to mention about this book is the cover. Its shiny and bright and very appealing to the eyes. (Picture will be posted at the end of this review) The back of the cover is a note from Amy about if you buy this book you have these duties, it goes on about how you will read the book and where you can and should read it and how you should talk about it. The writing goes all the way to the bottom and the font keeps getting smaller and smaller. If took me a while to read the last few lines but I eventually made them out. 

The back is probably the main reason I bought this book on site, I didn’t even open the cover to read the synopsis. Another cool thing about the cover is when you open it up you see all these thumbnails of various different shots from the cover shoot. It’s pretty  cool and I suggest you guys check it out. 

The last bit about the cover is the actual cover of the book. I like taking the dust jacket off books and seeing how the book actually looks. This book is very sleek and white and simply has Yes Please engraved in bright blue lettering, but the cool thing about it is the back. It says Thank you. I thought that was really cute and clever and it goes well with the title of the book. (Maybe I'll go take a picture for Instagram ;).)

As for the book itself I loved it! I am very interested in reading biography style books by celebrities that I admire and whose careers I follow. While I don’t follow all of Amy’s work I know who  she is and I appreciate her comedy.

In the book she is very open about the fact that writing a book is hard and she almost quit on multiple occasions. Overall in her book she talks about her experiences and all the events that led her to where she is now. She goes into stories about her childhood and college. A big part of this book is centered around her improv career in Boston, Chicago, and New York. The book is sections off into three sections and has a lot of pictures to help the reader have a sense of who she is as a person. I loved the pictures and thought they really added to the book.

The one down side I had about this book is that some of the stories didn't seem to have enough info in them. Granted she has a lot of stories so just doing a few sentences per person she wanted to talk about was beneficial for her. 

Overall I really enjoyed reading this and would definitely recommend it to anyone that likes learning more about celebrities from their POV, especially people who are a fan of Amy Poehler.

That's it for now, 

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If you've read Yes Please, I'd love to hear your input! Comment and let me know what you thought!

-- G