It’s that time of the month again when we head to our local bookshops or Amazon.com with our newly earned paychecks to pick up these new November book releases!
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
The Saturday Night Live and Parks and Recreation comedienne finally tells it like it is with her first book,Yes Please. If you love Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling and Lena Dunham as writers, Yes Please will be right up your alley. Poehler’s book has a blend of essays, advice (example, “Treat Your Career Like a Bad Boyfriend”), lists, and even poetry (“Plastic Surgery Haiku”) that is smart, funny, and inspirational.
Rookie Yearbook Three by Tavi Gevinson
With contributions from Lorde, Sia and Dakota and Elle Fanning, it’s safe to say Rookie Yearbook Three is way cooler than anything from your high school. Yearbook Three is a compilation of the best articles, photos, interviews, and illustration from the Rookie website last year. Seventeen-year-old founder and editor in chief Tavi Gevinson started her first style blog at the age of 11 and Rookie when she was 15. Feeling like a slacker yet? Lady Gaga has called Gevinson “the future of journalism”. How about now?
Us by David Nicholls
The One Day author returns with the same humourous and human touch in Us, which centers on a middle-age couple, Connie and Douglas. Connie tells her husband that she wants a divorce, but Douglas sees a preplanned month-long trip through Europe as a way to rekindle their romance, save his marriage, and bond with their teenage son. Long-listed for the influential Man Booker Literary Prize,Us deftly explores the demands of marriage, parenthood, and what keeps families together.
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
The author of The Crimson Petal and the White returns with something completely different. The Book of Strange New Things is a genre-bending tale that has taken Faber more than 10 years to complete.Strange New Things tells the tale of Peter, a man of faith, who goes on a religious mission to a galaxy far away from his wife. While Peter teaches the seemingly friendly and interested natives, his wife’s letters reveal typhoons, earthquakes, and failed governments at home. We told you it was genre-bending.
The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year by Andy Cohen
Try as we might, sometimes we just want that cheeseburger or trashy sweet treat. That goes the same for our reading habits. Tolstoy, Proust and Dickens are great, but sometimes you just want a light, fun read like The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year by the effervescent Bravo producer and host. And we’re not the only ones, the book has endorsements by Sarah Jessica Parker and Anderson Cooper. A Deep Look documents a year in the outrageous life of Cohen and also provides an honest, irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny take on pop culture in the 21st century.