A clever, surprising self-help gem, worth reading in or out of the bathroom.
The creator of Poo-Pourri deodorizing spray uses the story of her business’s success to offer advice on living with intention, combating fear, and other topics.
What do going to the bathroom and creating a life of abundance have to do with each other? According to debut author Bátiz, the CEO of Poo-Pourri: everything. After a cheeky video promoting her bathroom spray went viral in 2013, her company had a wild growth spurt, she writes. Her company’s success, she says, has depended on her positive attitude and enthusiastic risk-taking. In one bold move, for example, her willingness to book a flight to meet with the CEO of a sprayer manufacturer helped to solve a production crisis. She weaves similar anecdotes (or “poo Parables”) into 10 chapters. The 10 pieces of advice, or “Woos,” cover everything from cultivating an open mind, facing fear, trusting your gut, and acting with intention. There are surprising insights in the pun-laden advice (such as the idea that shame about defecation is related to “limits to how we lead our lives”), and tangible exercises (in sections titled “Take a Shift”) offer useful ways to apply Bátiz’s advice right away. The young company’s history is used frequently for lessons (its viral “Girls Don’t Poop” video, for instance, is mentioned several times). But there’s a sincere desire to inspire in Bátiz’s writing: “The world wants you to succeed. Honestly it does.” The toilet humor is clever and only sometimes overreaching (“We stand on the shoulders of loving, pooping giants”). Quotes from everyone from Frank Zappa to Albert Einstein accompany the chapters, alongside colorful drawings of celestial posteriors or a toilet bowl exploding with flowers. Even cynical readers may find something to love (or laugh at) in this beautifully presented guide to improving wellness.
A clever, surprising self-help gem, worth reading in or out of the bathroom.Pub Date: N/A
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: -
Publisher: No. 2 Productions
Review Posted Online: Oct. 18, 2017
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.
Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these deceptive tactics were not enough, and a plague of violent death—by shooting, poison, orchestrated automobile accident, and bombing—began to decimate the Osage in what they came to call the "Reign of Terror." Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. Bestselling New Yorkerstaff writer Grann (The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, 2010, etc.) follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.Pub Date: April 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-385-53424-6
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2017
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
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