This weekly meme was created by The Broke and the Bookish. Today’s theme is Top Ten Things Books Have Made Me Want To Do or Learn About After Reading Them.
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
by Olivia Laing
Nonfiction | Memoir | Art | New York
MADE ME: want to learn more about artists mentioned in it like Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, and David Wojnarowicz

Pub Date: March 1st, 2016
My Rating: ★★★★★
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Humane, provocative and deeply moving, The Lonely City is about the spaces between people and the things that draw them together, about sexuality, mortality and the magical possibilities of art. It’s a celebration of a strange and lovely state, adrift from the larger continent of human experience, but intrinsic to the very act of being alive.
This is such an amazing book! I loved this! It made me feel understood, it made me feel. Very often I had to stop, reread some passage that especially got to me and think about it. And there were many such moments.
Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren
Nonfiction | Memoir | Science
MADE ME: want to find my true passion in life
Pub Date: April 5th, 2016
My Rating: ★★★★☆
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Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren’s stories: about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom’s labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and learned to perform lab work done “with both the heart and the hands”; and about the inevitable disappointments, but also the triumphs and exhilarating discoveries, of scientific work.
I was never interested in plants, I cannot even bother to care for some houseplant my mum bought for me. But your chapters about trees made me feel for them, made me change the way I look at them. They have so much more to offer if you look closely, they ancestors had to fight to survive, and now they are being slaughtered and so little people are even noticing it.
Yes Please
by Amy Poehler
Nonfiction | Memoir | Comedy
MADE ME: go to comedy club
Pub Date: October 28th, 2014
My Rating: ★★★★☆
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In Amy Poehler’s highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful, some not so much), like when to be funny and when to be serious. Powered by Amy’s charming and hilarious, biting yet wise voice, Yes Please is a book full of words to live by.
After reading this I really wanted to see improv! And I did 🙂 I went to my local comedy club, two performances were mediocre at best, and one was quite good. One day I hope to go to some comedy club in New York and see some improv group there.
All the thrillers I read that are set in the UK make me want to travel there and stay forever, haha.
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Hahaha, thrillers though, aren’t you afraid that someone will kidnapp you or worse? But then some handsome detective with British accent will rescue you, if going with some cheesy book plot 😉
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You read my mind :p I can’t resist a handsome Brit detective!
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I love it when books inspire me to look stuff up or just learn more about the topic! Books can be SO inspiring, right?!? LOOOOOVE that. And I haven’t read either of these but I love your reasons for being inspired by them. :’)
Here’s my TTT!
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Those have double strong inspiring power for be because they are about real people, what I was reading about were fact, people actually did it, created it, and change a world a tiny bit while doing it.
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Lab Girl sounds so interesting!! I’m really bad at caring for plants as well (I swear that the succulents in my dorm room must have nine lives) but I keep trying 🙂
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Your comments about Lab Girl make it sounds such a unique, intriguing read that gives you food for thought. Some books definitely have that ability to make you look at things in a different light – I’ll have to check that out, thanks for introducing it to us!
Here’s my TTT. 🙂
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Check out Lab Girl – the writing is beautiful!
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I haven’t read any of these books. I know people love Amy Poehler’s book though. Have a great week!
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Sandy @ Somewhere Only We Know
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Amy Poehler is a funny lady and her book is amazing! If you like memoirs, then you’d like this one.
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Going to a comedy club sounds cool! I STILL need to read Yes Please!! 😀
My Top Ten Tuesday!
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