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"Grace's guide:The art of pretending to be a grown-up" by Grace Helbig -- book review




Goodreads page: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22168240-grace-s-guide

My rating: 5/5

What this is about:
Grace Helbig -one of my personal favourite Youtubers/comedians/persons/some sort of being that appear human,yet I tend to question whether they are or not- sprinkles some of her life lessons upon the masses.
Filled with trade-mark Grace-esque comments and jokes,the book comes with tips for being the best possible adult you can possibly be in this particular era (or any,I don't know what is to come/what was before I was here).This comes with tips for things like getting over a hangover and break-up to doing a shameless walk of shame and making a carb-full dinner.It's got all the tips you need (and if it doesn't,you can just add more,probably).



Thoughts:
Although I might be a little biased because of my love for everything that Grace Helbig does,I do have to say that this book was a bit of a masterpiece.It wasn't just great content wise,but it honestly was just beautiful.Colourfull and filled with notes and pictures and worksheets,it was just gorgeous to look at and made me want to instagram every single page.
I was obviously already expecting to get all of the LOLs out of this book and I surely did.Grace's humor gets to the reader easily and I just went like "oh,my God,this is sooooo Grace" so many times and laughed like crazy out loud quite a few times (or a lot,my family wasn't particularly keen of that),so it surely achieved that.I was not,however,expecting it to be this helpful? (it's calling itself a 'guide',but I still was expecting Grace to sort of mock humanity and just make me get some LOLs.That was it.I have little faith in humanity,if that isn't obvious).However,this had quite a few life lessons.It honestly touched some issues in a way that is probably too deep for the usual Grace Helbig (really,though,she has a podcast called 'not too deep',how has she written this?) and I was impressed.I love the way the jokes and the more serious tips were mixed,just to make sure you're not taking yourself too seriously,I guess.
All things considered,this book was surely what it was supposed to and I do see myself going back to it,either to get back to those insightful tips when I do need them,or just to fill some of those worksheets that I haven't filled yet.


To end this in a way that would make Grace Helbig herself proud (and that is also sort of inspired by the end of her own book),

                                              i don't know.
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