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The author of the acclaimed, bestselling In Praise of Difficult Women delivers a hilarious feminist manifesto that encourages us to reject "self-improvement" and instead learn to appreciate and flaunt our complex, and flawed, human selves.

Why are we so obsessed with being our so-called best selves? Because our modern culture…

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1 author picked Yeah, No. Not Happening. as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I read Yeah, No. Not Happening. as a New Year’s gift to myself in one satisfying sitting. The book provided an antidote to the “self-improvery” swirling in social media spaces where I’d been endlessly scrolling to cure my melancholy and body hatred.

This book didn’t just say F* it to self-improvement but walked through a history of how women’s bettering ourselves became a thing. Karbo hilariously used herself as a guinea pig to go cold turkey on self-improvement. At the end of the book (sad), I felt less alone and knew that Karbo would be out there as a…

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