Our Book of Awesome
A Celebration of the Small Joys That Bring Us Together
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Welcome to Our Book of Awesome, a celebration of the small joys that bring us together.
In a world that is often overwhelming, it’s time to return to the simple things, the AWESOME things, all around us...if only we take a moment to see them:
-Carrying the ice cube tray from the sink to the freezer without spilling
-Finally unsubscribing from that annoying email you’ve been getting forever
-Seeing your parents dance
-Adding a gift note to yourself on your online order
-Sending a private message during the video conference and then seeing your coworker look down and silently smirk
-When your kids don’t hear you opening a bag of potato chips
-When the hand sanitizer isn’t that extra slippery kind that never dries
-Texting your husband to do something when he’s upstairs and you’re downstairs
-When the cake plops flawlessly out of the pan
These are just a few of the hundreds and hundreds of things you’ll find in this new volume. You’ll also find comments, letters, and submissions from the AWESOME community around the world, leading to a final cacophony of awesome, by all of us, for all of us.
Our Book of Awesome is an injection of joy, a heartfelt gift, and a smacking high five for humanity. Read it to be reminded of the endless AWESOME things that give laughter and happiness to our beautiful and brief lives.
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3 Books podcaster Pasricha (You Are Awesome) continues his Book of Awesome series with this fun outing. He recounts starting his 1000 Awesome Things blog in 2008 to remind himself of the "endless simple joys we're surrounded by every day" and here collects additional reasons to be grateful, rhapsodizing about the first day of spring, sleeping in on weekends, and not getting a parking ticket when one should have. Short anecdotes accompany some entries, such as when the author tells of the relief felt by his high school chemistry class after tracking the source of a strange smell in their classroom to a piece of salami left in a textbook, while others offer only a brief line (one dispatch reads in full: "Opening the dishwasher and it's empty. You officially live with somebody"). The author includes notes from readers of his blog, such as when he praises "inventing" new dishes at a buffet and shares readers' concoctions ("Take a chicken nugget, top it with a pickle, wrap it in a slice of cheese"). Pasricha's lighthearted tone is a perfect match for his upbeat dispatches, though compared to previous entries in the series, this feels like more of the same. Still, readers will find this a pleasant diversion.
