Yes Please
by Amy Poehler · first published 2014
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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.
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Some books I've enjoyed in the past year: Wish to laugh? * Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah * Yes please! by Amy Poehler Think? * Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell * Where Good Ideas Come from, by Steven Johnson * The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene: An Intimate History both by Mukherjee Siddhartha…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?” ↗In actuality, it is the publishers who have a monopoly on each book that they sell. If Amazon (or any other retailer) wants to sell Amy Poehler's new bestseller Yes Please, they can only buy it from HarperCollins. They can set any wholesale price they want, and no other publisher is allowed to offer a competing price for that book.
on “Amazon and Hachette Resolve Dispute” ↗…Supervillain - Jim Bernheimer Origins of a D-List Supervillain - Jim Bernheimer The second is a prequel of the first. I haven't read the third in the series. Light reading about a guy's descent into villainy. Yes Please - Amy Poehler: I love memoirs. I just didn't love this one. It read a lot like Leslie Knope was the author, but there was an obscene amount of name dropping that kept interrupting the flow of the book…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?” ↗1. Alas Babylon, Pat Frank 2. A Talent For War, Jack McDevitt 3. Endymion, Dan Simmons 4. Programming iOS 9 ( 50% ), Matt Neuburg 5. Yes Please, Amy Poehler 6. The Nature of the Beast, Louise Penny
on “Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?” ↗