by Amanda Palmer
I was not prepared for what I got in this book. I knew it was a memoir, but it really does focus on asking and all ways we ask people for things and all the things we don't ask for until it hurts too much. It's a beautiful book and made me realize that I really need to work on asking more. I absolu...
i liked what she said about her relationship with both Anthony and Neil. The rest of the book is mostly twittering, couchsurfing, and some longer blog posts as Gaiman himself called somewhere in the book. The saddest scene for was when Amanda was in a cafe with Anthony and she checked her phone to ...
Amanda Palmer --- musician, artist, connector of dots, blogger, tweeter, writer, philosopher, speaker, wife, friend, and most importantly human --- really pulls back the curtain in this book, to show us what she does behind the scenes to make the final product (what we see when we buy her music, her...
Amanda Palmer isn't everyone's cup of tea. She's brash, she's creative and she's not ashamed to let the world know it. Amanda takes us on her journey, as an artist, from her beginnings as a human statue, through her stripping career, through to her highly successful Kickstarter, and her woes of al...
I went into this book only knowing that Amanda Palmer is the lead singer of The Dresden Dolls, a band my husband likes and the 2 times I've heard them have given me a headache, and that she's married to Neil Gaiman, an author my husband loves and I've never read but stood in line for a signing with ...
The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help Amanda Palmer, 2014 Amanda Palmer – musician and blogger – has written a book on the subject of her TED talk, about how it’s okay to ask for help. Half memoir, half self-help book, The Art of Asking covers topics ranging f...
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