Lose Yourself in the World of Books
A How-To Guide from the First Family of Podcasting At the old bookstore, there had been talk of launching a podcast. And after all, everyone has a podcast at this point, right? Well, that never happened, though some employees did launch their own and I wish them all the luck! Always wanting to be prepared,… Continue reading Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You) by the McElroy Brothers
No F*cks Given #4 How to Control What You Can and Accept What you Can't So You Can Stop Freaking Out and Get On with Your Life I've always been a worrier, and in my adult life was diagnosed with anxiety and suffer from panic attacks. But, I try to find books to help me… Continue reading Calm the Fuck Down by Sarah Knight
You're Better Than Your Mess As my husband and I have started house hunting and I may have a bit of a... collecting problem, I figured it was high time I got my butt in gear and started working on developing useful and effective cleaning and organizing habits! Synopsis From the Back CoverFinally, a housekeeping… Continue reading Unf*ck Your Habitat by Rachel Hoffman
One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living After watching Making It and meeting Nick in June at Book Expo, I figured it about time I read one of his books. When I realized that I read so many books by famous women that are thinly veiled self-help memoir-y type books, I realized I owed to my… Continue reading Paddle Your Own Canoe by Nick Offerman
The Genius and the Absurdity Self-Help January continues! This book originally came out in November 2017 and I still have an advance reader copy... I've been sitting on it for almost 2 years and decided now was finally the time to read it. I love Iliza, so much so that I decided to use her… Continue reading Girl Logic by Iliza Shlesinger
How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps I've started referring to January as Self-Help Month. I know it's really in the summer, or something like that, but if working in a books store for the last 4 Januarys has taught me only one thing, it's that the best selling section of the store… Continue reading Adulting (Updated Edition) by Kelly Williams Brown
Wisdom of Pooh #1 I have long been intrigued by The Tao of Pooh and decided the holiday season was a good time to read it to try to keep myself settled and focused. Synopsis The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? The Tao of Pooh! ... in which it is revealed that one of the world's great Taoist… Continue reading The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life Funny story. This is one of the top selling books of the year at the bookstore I work at. We're even sponsoring an event with the author in a few weeks in Philadelphia. I did not know this when I started ranting to… Continue reading You are a Badass by Jen Sincero
(But Neither is Anyone Else) There are some advance reader copies (ARCs) that, when sitting in a pile of hundreds of other ARCs on our staff lunch table at work, just call out to me. There are fewer that actually make it to my desk, fewer still that make it home with me, and fewer… Continue reading You’re Not That Great by Elan Gale
When this book first showed up at the bookstore on Monday, I wasn't entirely sure what to make of it. After my less than stellar experience in reading modern poetry last week with Milk and Honey, I didn't think I would really want to try again. But after all the teenage girls started asking for it… Continue reading Adultolescence by Gabbie Hanna
Celebration of Books 