Yes Please - Amy Poehler 
 Rating: (Reviewed in February 2017) 
 Amy Poehler is an american comedian best known for her sketches on Saturday Night Live and her TV show Parks & Recreation. She also hosted the Golden Globes with Tina Fey from 2013 to 2015 and voiced several animated characters (Joy from Inside Out, Jenny from Free Birds). 
 While I enjoyed some essays (Sorry, sorry, sorry, Every mother needs a wife and My Boys), the rest was disappointing and read more like a self-help book filled with various questionable advices than a memoir. She starts by saying that writing a book is hard and keeps repeating it throughout the book like a mantra. Several essays drop names left and right, expecting the reader to already know Poehler's entourage instead of introducing them, there are also numerous mentions of drugs (a whole essay and more) and the essays about pregnancy made me slightly nauseous. 
 What do we do? How do we more forward when we are tired and afraid? What do we do when the voice in our head is yelling that WE ARE NEVER GONNA MAKE IT? [...] 
 So here we go, you and me. Because what else are we going to do? Say no? Say no to an opportunity that may be slightly out of our comfort zone? Quiet our voice because we are worried it is not perfect? I believe great people do things before they are ready. 
 - Writing in hard: a preface