Help Me: My Perfectly Disastrous Journey through the World of Self-Help by Marianne Power.
From Harper Avenue Books:
"A hilarious and heartwarming rampage through the world of self-care.
Marianne Power was a self-help junkie. For years she lined her bookshelves with dog-eared copies of definitive guide after definitive guide on how to live your best life. Yet one day she woke up to find that the life she dreamed of and the life she was living were not miles but continents apart. So she set out to make a change. Or, actually, to make every change.
Marianne decided to finally find out if her elusive perfect life—the one without debt, anxiety, hangovers or Netflix marathons, the one where she healthily bounced around town with perfect teeth to meet the cashmere-sweater-wearing man of her dreams—lay in the pages of those books. So for a year she vowed to test a book a month, following its advice to the letter, taking the surest road she knew to a perfect Marianne.
As her year-long plan turned into a demented roller coaster where everything she knew was turned upside down, she found herself confronted with a different question: Self-help can change your life, but is it for the better?"
(Over the Counter is a regular feature at A Bookworm's World. I've sadly come the realization that I cannot physically read every book that catches my interest as it crosses over my counter at the library. But...I can mention them and maybe one of them will catch your eye as well. See if your local library has them on their shelves!)
3 comments:
I used to love reading self-help books......but in the end they really did nothing for me. Motivating while I was reading the book, but ultimately forgotten as I moved on. This book looks like a lot fun, putting a hold it today 😉
I don't like self-help books at all. Reading is my mind candy, so I usually grab fiction!
Icewineanne - I avoid self help books myself, but this has a different focus, so I thought it might be fun as well.
Dianna - Fiction is my first choice as well.
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