Yes Please Hardcover October 28 2014 Amazon com Yes Please Amy Poehler on Yes Please Hardcover October 28 2014 104 customer reviews 1 Best Seller in Memoirs See all 8 formats and Amazon com hardcover Amazon com hardcover Amazon Try Prime Your Amazon com Today s Deals Gift Cards Sell Help Yes Please Oct 28 2014 by Amy Poehler Hardcover 18 10 28 Yes Please by Amy Poehler 9780062268341 Hardcover We d get to hang out with Amy Poehler Hardcover 17 82 BN com price Yes Please eBook Pub Date 10 28 2014 Publisher Yes Please BookPeople Yes Please Hardcover By Amy Poehler 28 99 Coming 10 28 2014 Pages 352 Language English Related Editions all eBook 10 2014 17 99 NPR Bestsellers Hardcover Nonfiction Week Of Yes Please debuts at No 1 Skip to Hardcover 329 pages Hardcover 272 pages Random House Inc 35 published October 28 2014 purchase Purchase
I will first admit that I’m a sucker for these type of books. I’ve read Mindy Khaling’s, Tina Fey’s, Lena Dunham’s and even Ellen Degeneres’. I’ll also admit that I’m a 24 year old girl, and that my opinions are probably biased based on my age and the (lack of) life experiences I’ve had so far.
First of all, if you’re considering picking up the book versus buying the Kindle version, I would strongly recommend the hard copy. The book is formatted with glossy pages full of colored pictures and chapter titles that I really love (attached some photos and a video). It makes the reading experience a whole lot more exciting. Every time I turned upon a new chapter, I would have to stop for a moment and smile to myself.
That being said, I was excited about Amy’s book because I’ve an avid fan of Parks and Rec, and her previous work on SNL. To me, she just seemed like a really warm person and people only have compliments when talking about her. I couldn’t wait to read a book in her voice and learn more about her past.
Some Youtube clips that I just had to dig up after reading about them from Amy’s perspective:
SNL Sarah Palin rap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG1g5qvgtSg
2011 Emmy’s bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyFyJqx1lpc
2009 Emmy’s bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jSk8yzlm94
I’m glad to say I was not disappointed at all. Compared to some of the other authors that I have mentioned, Amy does have more stories and chapters on experiences that I couldn’t quite relate to (pregnancy, divorce, raising kids), but by reading about those stories I felt a little more prepared for the future.
I don’t know if one can label this book as a memoir. Yes Please by Amy Poehler (or can she be called the author as it has chapters written by others as well?) is a mishmash of advice, humor, essays, poems, and of course, memoir. Yes please, it is a delightful book to read, brutally honest, sincere, witty and at times harsh on herself. I never thought it would be such a pleasure to read as I have a low opinion of celebrities dishing out advice but Amy Poehler’s Yes Please turns out to be quite perceptive and refreshingly different.
What is Yes Please all about? A lot! It is a memoir with a difference, incorporating a lot of other things. Amy writes about her two sons Archie Arnett, 5, and Abel Arnett, 4. And mind you, the book is also dedicated to them. Amy has been married to Will Arnett for nine years and the two went their separate ways in September 2012. Both Arnett and Poehler have kept quiet about it. In Yes Please, Poehler describes it as “too personal” and “too sad.” She also writes about her parents, how she grew up in the Boston suburb of Burlington, about her school and about her time at Boston College. She writes not only about the good things that had happened to her but also her regrets as well. Poehler also writes about her experiences with cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana, which is why I feel the book is brutally honest. And, of course, there’s plenty of tales from Saturday Night Live.
What I really like about Yes Please by Amy Poehler is its intense honesty without giving much juice to the gossip mill. She is brutal on herself, and doesn’t paint rosy pictures where there were none.