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10. Yes, Please – Amy Poehler

Apparently, the audiobook of this is quite good. I have not heard that, so I only have the paper book to work with and it was not that good. I really like Amy Poehler (or maybe I just really, really like Leslie Knope, to be fair, in the Amy-Leslie battle I’m going with Leslie even though in an Ann Perkins-Rashida Jones battle I would go with Rashida, preferences are weird sometimes) and so I wanted this to be a very enjoyable reading experience but I got a little eye-rolly.

When you tell me that it’s hard to write a book, well, I know that. Even if I hadn’t technically finished writing six novels, I would still know that and maybe I don’t want to hear it from people who get real paid to write if you know what I mean. Maybe it’s just a bit of a downer to be reminded that you need your other famous friends to help you write a book you’ll get paid a lot for when I can’t even get people to stop stealing mine when it’s $3.99.

I imagine that the audiobook is a very different experience and since the talents of comedians are much more easily experienced through audible media, maybe that takes the annoying edge off the necessity of collaborating to finish one book and makes it fun. That just wasn’t my reading experience.

Ozma has fun in her willow tunnel with her stuffed ice cream sandwich. She sounds a lot like a tiny, soft chicken when she wheeks so I imagine it would be more fun for everyone to experience her out loud but I’m against fun, clearly. I even have a Fun Police badge.