Olga Shvartsur, Unicorn Rainbow Watercolor, 2016
(August 21) Sydney Poulton on Instagram recommended this on her Stories; when I looked up the title at the library in March, there was a huge queue for it -- so I jumped on that bandwagon.I quite liked it ...looked forward to reading it whenever I wasn’t, which I don’t usually experience with non-fiction. It’s a life-coaching book, intended to help you find your power in your uniqueness & etc.
There’s an interview with Jen Sincero on the Daily Mail online in which she says:
“To be honest, I don’t think I’m saying anything all that brand new. I think I’m just saying it in a new way. You know, one of the motivations for me writing this book. I’ve read like 10,000 self-help books. There was nothing that was kind of funny and curse-y and irreverent, and I was like, man, that’s what this industry needs.
“You can read the same thing a hundred times but somebody can say it in a certain way and suddenly everything changes. That’s sort of what I wanted to do with this book, was to not only make it entertaining but to give somebody who wasn’t quite getting it the opportunity to get it from a different voice….”She is absolutely right in assessing her own work in this way… and that’s why I like her: she is honest and she is right, and although the concepts were familiar, this book opened up some new reading interests for me.
The unicorn drawing above is not there to make fun of the book or Sincero -- she herself jokes about unicorniness several times throughout the book and she would laugh her ass off at this illustration for a review (and the rainbow is oddly inaccurate anyway).
