By Faina Matveeva I don't usually read a lot or watch television because I'm too busy studying. Last semester, however, I interned two hours away from home with no classes or exams to worry about (hurray!) and no internet (yikes!) So I booked it--get it?--to my local public library. As soon as I started sifting through the nonfiction, I realized that there has been a wave of publication by female celebrities and comedians in the last two years. I'm sure you've heard of them: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Malala Yousafzai--okay the latter is not a celebrity, she's more of a Nobel-Peace-prize-winning-feminist-hero-powerhouse-hope-healer. Anyway, these books describe the journey of these authors to their own successes or offer advice that their readers could apply in day-to-day life. I call this phenomena the Femi-Memoir. I made it a goal for myself to read as many femi-memoirs as I could before the new year. Now that I've made it through four of them, I'm ready to apply all that advice and inspiration to 2015. This past semester, these books really pushed me to start thinking about what I wanted--not just as a woman, but as a student, an employee, and a friend. I loved them all and I hope you'll take the time to read them and apply them to your lives! However, if you're short on time, I would go straight to numbers 3 and 4--life changing, I swear!
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