“Frozen walls of air conditioning hitting you on hot days.” “The moment at a restaurant after you see your food coming from the kitchen but before it lands on your table.” “Finally remembering a word that’s been on the tip of your tongue for so long.” “When you’re really tired and about to fall asleep and someone throws a blanket on you.” “Being the first person into a really crowded movie theater and getting the prime seats.” “The sound of scissors cutting construction paper.” “Hitting a bunch of green lights in a row.” “The moment at a concert after the lights go out and before the band comes onstage.” It shares the joys of little things- from having a whole row to yourself on the plane, to being the first table to get called up for the dinner buffet at a wedding.īut there were so many great highlights that I decided to feature some of my favorite ones: “With so much sad news and bad news pouring down upon us, it’s fun to stop for a minute and share a universal high five with the rest of humanity.” The Book of Awesome is, as the title might suggest, filled with awesome little moments that make your day a little brighter. (Also, the new season of Orange Is the New Black helped a lot- but that’s a story for another time.) I seriously couldn’t stop thinking about every little wrongness that occurred on a daily basis, until I picked this book up. I felt such rage at the seeming unfairness of how tragedy was handed out- I actually had to stop reading because I felt so exasperated and, frankly, scared.īut this is where The Book of Awesome stepped in to calm down that toxic fire that kept swallowing my every being.
I had just recently started reading Everyday Sexism, and it ignited a spark within me that I had thought to be long extinguished. I picked this book up at exactly the right time. Maybe we all love snow days, peeling an orange in one shot, and Popping Bubble Wrap.” “It seems like maybe these tiny little moments make an awesome difference in many of our rushed, jam-packed lives.
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