Yes Please by Amy Poehler
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Ok, this is the first Audio Book I have been able to actually listen to and finish! Amy’s voice talking about her life was a good companion when I woke up at random hours in the middle of the night, and I was so alert that couldn’t go back to sleep easily, so I started playing some podcasts, and then I tried this book! I think this book is probably funnier listening to, than just reading it by yourself. You get the intonation, the pauses, the laughter, the excitement, and you get a much better picture about her, or it seems that way. I also listened to this audio book while cooking and that was good too! I am not really able to concentrate in audio if I am out and about, or in public transit, I find it too distracting, but I can read during my commute and this works better.
About the book content, well, it’s about Amy Poehler’s life, some highlights of her childhood, her family, growing up in Massachusetts, her years in Chicago doing comedy and then her move to NY and her career taking off. Obviously, comedians, like artists, dancers, athletes, etc, don’t do it for the money, and this is her case. She had a blast during the years when she was not famous and of course still has a blast. I liked that she mentions some of her bad life moments like her divorce, or depression in a light way, but honest at the same time. Her love for her children is just so relatable, and her account of her trip to Haiti is so sad, I am not sure why, but I even teared up a bit about the baby she was trying to pass to the mom, then realizing there was no mom, she was visiting an orphanage. 😥 She tries to compare Haiti with his rich cousin Dominican Republic, and maybe she has been to Punta Cana or la Romana, but DR is also very very poor, except maybe not as bad as Haiti… small observation there. We tell our stories from our own little place where we stand, this is true!
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