Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone, (Paperback)

from Lenaphoenix

I was a big fan of Beth Lisick's first memoir, Everybody Into the Pool. She's smart and funny, so I figured her new book about a year she spent trying to improve her life through doing various self-help programs would be pretty entertaining. And it is entertaining, in parts. It was also kind of p...

from alanna1122

I would have given this 2.75 stars if I could have. Beth Lisick can be really funny sometimes. Those moments are great. I liked certain chapters of this book. I thought the Richard Simmons chapter was far and away the best - it was funny and real and so interesting. The Julie Morgenstern chapter ...

from jlapac

I found that as I read this book that I thought that the author was an idiot while admiring her quest. I was reacting to her initial sarcasm about self-help. I am not self-help junkie, but I don't think a person should disparage things unless you know something about it. Perhaps it was supposed t...

from Stembie3

Seems I'm not the only one who needs to learn how to handle my money, clean my house and get centered.Although this is a somewhat amusing book, it's certainly not a how-to for the reader. The author takes us on her journey to improve herself over a year's time. She spends each month focusing on o...

from nivramkoorb

Having read Beth Lisick's first book I thought I would read this one. I never took the self help part seriously and just read the book for the humor that I expected would be in it. She did not disappoint. I like it least when I thought that she was really being serious about the people she was se...