Episode · The Book Review · 2015-12-31
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: You, New and Improved
Pamela Paul discussed Presence by Amy Cuddy, Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo, You're not doing it right by Michael Ian Black, and My Custom Van by Michael Ian Black.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Presence
Presence by Amy Cuddy is a popular psychology and self-help book that explores how adopting specific physical postures and body language can help individuals project confidence and conquer stressful situations.
Discussed“Heather heski will join us to talk about two new books she reviews on our cover Amy Cy's presence bringing your boldest self to your biggest challenges and year of yes by Shonda Rhymes”
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Year of Yes
Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes is a candid and humorous memoir in which the acclaimed television creator chronicles her transformative personal journey of stepping out of her comfort zone by accepting every frightening opportunity and challenge that came her way over the course of a year.
Discussed“Heather heski will join us to talk about two new books she reviews on our cover Amy Cy's presence bringing your boldest self to your biggest challenges and year of yes by Shonda Rhymes”
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo is a widely known self-help and organizing guide that encourages individuals to evaluate their material possessions by keeping only those items that spark genuine joy.
Discussed“it's interesting because I'm also reading Marie condo's book The life-changing magic of tidying up which is the kind of the giant sensation about reorganizing your life and I just got to the section where she says you should not own loungewear”
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You're not doing it right
Discussed“so you wrote A Memoir which has one of my uh favorite titles ever you're not doing it right”
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My Custom Van
Discussed“and then my custom van and 50 other mind-blowing essays that will blow your mind all over your face and now you're going to have to tell me the title of the half book”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Heather heski reviews two books this week on our cover year of yes how to dance it out stand in the Sun and be your own person by Shonda ryes and presents bringing your boldest self to your biggest challenges by Amy Cy”
“Heather heski reviews two books this week on our cover year of yes how to dance it out stand in the Sun and be your own person by Shonda ryes and presents bringing your boldest self to your biggest challenges by Amy Cy”
“the half book is called America you sexy”
“and then the second book you're not doing it right I really wanted to create a cohesive narrative and I didn't know if I could do that either”
“so it's about bodies much the way tanasi coats's book is about bodies except not at all right I was waiting for that I allowed to beat there um I'm trying to put us in the same class assuming your readers will and your listeners will fall for it for readers of Tanana hay coats's book enjoy gazing so on”
“I felt like I didn't go far enough into my relationship with her in in you're not doing it right because it wasn't really the subject of the book”