My Year with Eleanor
“I honestly loved this book.”—Jim Norton, New York Times bestselling author of I Hate Your Guts“Eleanor taught Noelle that, first and foremost, Courage Takes Practice. Her yearlong quest to face her terrors, great and small, is moving, enriching, and hilarious—we readers are lucky to be along for...
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“I honestly loved this book.”—Jim Norton, New York Times bestselling author of I Hate Your Guts“Eleanor taught Noelle that, first and foremost, Courage Takes Practice. Her yearlong quest to face her terrors, great and small, is moving, enriching, and hilarious—we readers are lucky to be along for the ride.”—Julie Powell, bestselling author of Julie & JuliaIn the tradition of My Year of Living Biblically and Eat Pray Love comes My Year with Eleanor, Noelle Hancock’s hilarious tale of her decision to heed the advice of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and do one thing a day that scares her in the year before her 30th birthday. Fans of Sloane Crosley and Chelsea Handler will absolutely adore Hancock’s charming and outrageous chronicle of her courageous endeavor and delight in her poignant and inspiring personal growth.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780061875038 (0061875031)
ASIN: 61875031
Publish date: June 7th 2011
Publisher: Ecco
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Book Club,
Adult,
Biography Memoir,
New York,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
A young woman, suddenly unemployed and a year away from turning 30, turns to Eleanor Roosevelt's writings for inspiration. She decides to spend a year facing her fears. The fears that she spends the most writing on are the dramatic ones, written up to be funny: trapeze school, skydiving, stand-up co...
I confess right now that I was a bit dubious when I started this memoir, apprehensive that I -- not much of a celebrity gossip fan -- wouldn't enjoy what this former celebrity blogger had to say or care about her year of transformation.Boy, was I wrong.By page five I was ready to like Hancock and by...
While on a much-needed vacation, transplanted Texan Noelle Hancock learned she had lost her high-profile, well-paying job as a blogger in New York City. Exhausted by a career largely based on keeping up with breaking celebrity gossip, Hancock sat down to create a new plan for her life and froze--she...