A review by msjoanna
Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone by Beth Lisick
3.0
Beth Lisick is funny. She's someone I would want to be friends with. And, impressively, she's able to convey this in print in a way that comes across as genuine and endearing rather than presumptuous or annoying. She opens herself to the reader in this memoir as she discusses her own shortcomings.
The book itself is a fun concept -- exploring different self help books (and even guru conferences and such) during the course of a year. But the project was executed lazily and haphazardly in a way that ended up interfering with my enjoyment of the project. It's funny though, because the way the book project goes is representative of Lisick's personality and part of what makes her personally so endearing. If she'd been more rigorous in her self-help exploration, it might well have made her less accessible as a person.
In any event, I enjoyed the book in a light reading sort of way. I didn't really learn much or have deep insight here, but I'm not sorry to have spent the nine hours that the audiobook took to listen to.
The book itself is a fun concept -- exploring different self help books (and even guru conferences and such) during the course of a year. But the project was executed lazily and haphazardly in a way that ended up interfering with my enjoyment of the project. It's funny though, because the way the book project goes is representative of Lisick's personality and part of what makes her personally so endearing. If she'd been more rigorous in her self-help exploration, it might well have made her less accessible as a person.
In any event, I enjoyed the book in a light reading sort of way. I didn't really learn much or have deep insight here, but I'm not sorry to have spent the nine hours that the audiobook took to listen to.