cybermule | Books: The Art of Asking

Following on from the last review, this was another book in the self progress chain. I realised during all the school stress that I was shit at accepting help. Let alone asking for help. So start with the asking, maybe, and thus the receiving may also be easier. I remembered a friend had said how much they'd got from the book, so I got a copy out the library.

I'll actually get a lending copy for this one too. I followed Amanda Palmer on some sort of social media for a while at one point and then went off her. Maybe because she stole Neil. But I have a nasty suspicion it might just have been some crappy attitude to her...brazenness? Lack of proper femininity in actually going out there and asking for stuff? I don't think they were good reasons. Whatever they were, I like her a lot more after reading this. She's really really honest. Or I assume she is as she's happy to chronicle the fails, the faults and the difficulties in just being in a relationship. With Neil Gaiman, which one would assume was a cinch.

It's hard to describe what this book gave me on a specific level. But it gave me an openness and joy that is going to last beyond the situation for which I originally picked it up. And that's a something <3