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Yes Please by Amy Poehler
3.0

You can read my full review of Yes Please on Keeping Up With The Penguins.

I occasionally laughed out loud, which is normally a great sign for a book, but ten minutes later I couldn’t remember the joke. Either I’m getting old, or Yes Please just didn’t resonate with me. It felt like Poehler and I were buzzing on different frequencies.

Amy Poehler is wise and wonderful and honest and smart. I didn’t love her book, but her book is not her. I don’t think she needs me to love Yes Please, and I don’t think that not loving it makes me a troll or a hater. I think it's a book for her die-hard fans, who want a behind-the-scenes look at her improv work and her time on SNL and Parks And Recreation. My hat still goes off to her; as she says herself, "writing is hard".