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youngthespian42's review
3.0
I loved the philosophy of this book a lot more than a lot of the excises or activities in this book. I have a BA in Theatre Arts so I am not new to creating and I found a lot of these activities a little basic. I know Day might find this attitude around the exercises “toxic” but I do not care.
I started this book right when I started a new writing project for the first time in a few years and Day’s philosophies behind creativity were incredibly empowering. While I didn’t practice most of the exercise I did take the concepts into my daily work on my project which helped a lot.
If you know Day’s personality and brand then know that it is in this book in spades. If you do not find her quirks charming elsewhere you will not get past them in this book. I love her and found the jokes, puns, and illustrations incredibly useful for a subject that has a lot of dry how-to’s on the market.
I started this book right when I started a new writing project for the first time in a few years and Day’s philosophies behind creativity were incredibly empowering. While I didn’t practice most of the exercise I did take the concepts into my daily work on my project which helped a lot.
If you know Day’s personality and brand then know that it is in this book in spades. If you do not find her quirks charming elsewhere you will not get past them in this book. I love her and found the jokes, puns, and illustrations incredibly useful for a subject that has a lot of dry how-to’s on the market.
kevin_shepherd's review
4.0
If misfits had a monarchy, Felicia Day would be our queen!
"Life is so much easier when we conform and stay silent, right? Easier, but one of the greatest disservices we can do to ourselves. Aside from wearing high-wasted pants."
This is not your Mom's pop-psychology, self-help, mass-market motivational (see: I'm OK - You're OK circa 1967). This is a workable compendium of thought provoking tasks and projects designed to help you identify and quantify your creative self.
"Anxiety means we care. We are sensitive people who are full of feeling... This is an amazing attribute! The opposite of this is "an uncaring, insensitive person who doesn't feel anything." A person like that would never delight in sketching lemurs or learning how to whittle their own spoons. Be GLAD not to be that douche nozzle."
Expect humor, expect wit, expect useful and insightful activities and assignments, expect obscure references (i.e. chibi?, She-Ra? Mindy Kaling?), expect inspirational impetus, and you will NOT be disappointed!
"Life is so much easier when we conform and stay silent, right? Easier, but one of the greatest disservices we can do to ourselves. Aside from wearing high-wasted pants."
This is not your Mom's pop-psychology, self-help, mass-market motivational (see: I'm OK - You're OK circa 1967). This is a workable compendium of thought provoking tasks and projects designed to help you identify and quantify your creative self.
"Anxiety means we care. We are sensitive people who are full of feeling... This is an amazing attribute! The opposite of this is "an uncaring, insensitive person who doesn't feel anything." A person like that would never delight in sketching lemurs or learning how to whittle their own spoons. Be GLAD not to be that douche nozzle."
Expect humor, expect wit, expect useful and insightful activities and assignments, expect obscure references (i.e. chibi?, She-Ra? Mindy Kaling?), expect inspirational impetus, and you will NOT be disappointed!
lyssidee's review against another edition
challenging
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
4.0
wannabekingpin's review
5.0
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night mode reading ;
skaitom nakties rezimu
About the Book: Out of many if not absolute most of us, weirdness gets taught out, forced out in a form of “be polite”, or bullied out, usually by those who already got theirs stifled. And so we learn to walk through life trying to not inconvenience anyone, giving in to guilt tripping, afraid to try, afraid to say no. Because what if we fail? We study for grades, not ourselves, so, naturally, if you want to draw horses, and you try, and it looks bad because you’ve not done it before, first instinct is to quit forever: grade’s in the negatives, you failed, never do it again! Well, except that no. Felicia, with lots of funny and very relatable examples explains us the science behind the basic self respect. She believes in our abilities, she believes in the goodness of our hearts, and you know what? We should too. Read this book as a manual as of how to avoid guilt tripping yourself, remove yourself from bad situations you have the power to remove yourself from, and not be afraid to try that thing you want to try. This book even helps get over creative blocks! Seriously!
My Opinion: Felicia Day is that magical Geek Queen Internet Mom who just keeps shining light onto my life all the way out here, in Lithuania. And I may not be the best book reviewer, excitement makes me talk a lot, and then I often miss the point due to it, as I probably did in the mile of text I see above. But you know what? That’s perfectly fine, this can be for me, and tomorrow I’ll write another review, and it will be better than this one, because that’s just how it works: you get better at the thing you keep doing, and then maybe one day I’ll actually BE the best book reviewer ever. Probably not likely, but hey, that’s fine too!
I loved this book. I read it twice back to back. I will read it again sometime soon. You should read it too. I give it a 5 out of 5, because it deserves that and a gold star too. (you’ll get it after you read it)
night mode reading ;
skaitom nakties rezimu
About the Book: Out of many if not absolute most of us, weirdness gets taught out, forced out in a form of “be polite”, or bullied out, usually by those who already got theirs stifled. And so we learn to walk through life trying to not inconvenience anyone, giving in to guilt tripping, afraid to try, afraid to say no. Because what if we fail? We study for grades, not ourselves, so, naturally, if you want to draw horses, and you try, and it looks bad because you’ve not done it before, first instinct is to quit forever: grade’s in the negatives, you failed, never do it again! Well, except that no. Felicia, with lots of funny and very relatable examples explains us the science behind the basic self respect. She believes in our abilities, she believes in the goodness of our hearts, and you know what? We should too. Read this book as a manual as of how to avoid guilt tripping yourself, remove yourself from bad situations you have the power to remove yourself from, and not be afraid to try that thing you want to try. This book even helps get over creative blocks! Seriously!
My Opinion: Felicia Day is that magical Geek Queen Internet Mom who just keeps shining light onto my life all the way out here, in Lithuania. And I may not be the best book reviewer, excitement makes me talk a lot, and then I often miss the point due to it, as I probably did in the mile of text I see above. But you know what? That’s perfectly fine, this can be for me, and tomorrow I’ll write another review, and it will be better than this one, because that’s just how it works: you get better at the thing you keep doing, and then maybe one day I’ll actually BE the best book reviewer ever. Probably not likely, but hey, that’s fine too!
I loved this book. I read it twice back to back. I will read it again sometime soon. You should read it too. I give it a 5 out of 5, because it deserves that and a gold star too. (you’ll get it after you read it)
mystimayhem's review
3.0
I mostly liked it. There's plenty of great tips about growing your creativity and facing obstacles and so on. There are lots of great exercises too. I'm only giving it a 3 because I feel that some of the mental health advice isn't... the best, most thought out advice. A lot of it skews more towards avoidance and isolation. I also didn't agree with Day's assertion that all creative endeavors start with or come about because of play. She's right when she says that suffering isn't necessary for art but art isn't only the things that are joyous or comfortable. I think the advice to play more and to take things less seriously some times is solid advice, though. It just felt like the book was trying to be a self-help book about the creative process, a book of tips about facing mental health issues, and a little bit of a memoir update and I'm not sure it really did any of those things a well as it would have, had the book focused on one of these things.
brb_reads's review
2.0
2.5 stars. This reminds me of journals I had as a tween/teen that I would fill out with random journal prompts. Not all of them were bad and may be helpful for others to actually fill out but this may be the opposite of what I’m looking for in this season. Hoping to find calm and rest instead of what this book encourages you to do, make, create. I think there can be creation/creativity after quiet periods too and it doesn’t always have to be busy. I am not sure I’d recommend this to anyone except maybe high school graduates.
ALC provided by Libro.fm and Simon & Schuster Audio in exchange for an honest review.
ALC provided by Libro.fm and Simon & Schuster Audio in exchange for an honest review.
mhawelka's review against another edition
4.0
Maybe the writing style isn't exactly my cup of tea, but the ideas presented were quite alright and I could see implementing them in my everyday life. A really strong part of the book is the exercises - even though I listened to the audiobook version - they still helped to understand the goal of the book and maybe find the creative soul inside.
The audiobook was read by the author and you can hear that she is a professional, that she works as a creative, as an actress, because the pacing and the emotional approach to the text was really good.
The audiobook was read by the author and you can hear that she is a professional, that she works as a creative, as an actress, because the pacing and the emotional approach to the text was really good.