Yes Please

Part memoir, part 'missive-from-the-middle', Yes Please is a hilarious collection of stories, thoughts, ideas, haikus and words-to-live-by drawn from the life and mind of acclaimed actress, writer and comedian Amy Poehler.Yes Please finds Amy riffing on everything from sex and love to motherhood, family, friendship and plastic surgery, and is full of great jokes and sage advice (the useful kind, not the annoying kind you didn't ask for)."An undigested melange of bits (a satirical chapter posing as a pregnant couple’s fussy list of demands for their obstetric team and so on), beefs, advice and memoir... To buy them, and even to read them, is less a quest for a literary experience than it is a form of endorsement and affirmation... These are books in the same way that concert T-shirts are clothing: less an end in themselves than a membership card. In essence, they’re merch. This is not to say such books have no value; just owning them makes fans feel closer to the celebrities who write them. The theatre of celebrity persona-making is, in its own way, a kind of hypermediated art. But come to a book like Yes Please with the desires and expectations of a reader, and you’re almost certain to walk away disappointed." - Laura Miller, The GuardianAmy Poehler is a Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning actress. Seven seasons on Saturday Night Live, the lead role in the hit show Parks and Recreation, and star turns in films Blades of Glory, Baby Mama and Sisters have made her one of the world's most beloved entertainers. She lives in New York and Los Angeles with her two sons. Do you want to get to know the woman we first came to love on Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade? Do you want to spend some time with the lady who made you howl with laughter on Saturday Night Live, and in movies like Baby Mama, Blades of Glory, and They Came Together? Do you find yourself daydreaming about hanging out with the actor behind the brilliant Leslie Knope on Parks and Recreation? Did you wish you were in the audience at the last two Golden Globes ceremonies, so you could bask in the hilarity of Amy's one-liners? If your answer to these questions is "Yes Please!" then you are in luck. In her first book, one of our most beloved funny folk delivers a smart, pointed, and ultimately inspirational read. Full of the comedic skill that makes us all love Amy, Yes Please is a rich and varied collection of stories, lists, poetry (Plastic Surgery Haiku, to be specific), photographs, mantras and advice. With chapters like "Treat Your Career Like a Bad Boyfriend," "Plain Girl Versus the Demon" and "The Robots Will Kill Us All" Yes Please will make you think as much as it will make you laugh. Honest, personal, real, and righteous, Yes Please is full of words to live by. **