How you doin'? On May 27th on HBO Max, Chandler, Phoebe, Monica, Joey, Rachel, and Ross will be getting back together for a Reunion episode. Though it was originally aired in 1994, Friends is still one of the most watched shows of all time. With the reunion episode right around the corner, we need to get back into the spirit of Friends by more than just watching reruns. Why not read a book that reminds you of the six friends enjoying life, stories, and coffee at Central Perk.
Listed below are a few books that remind us of the popular sitcom Friends. Do you have any recommendations for me? Email mkotelchuck@whatsupmag.com with your most recent read and a quick review about it to be featured!
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July - "In these stories, July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can reconfigure the world. Her characters engage awkwardly-they are sometimes too remote, sometimes too intimate. With compassion and humour, she reveals their idiosyncrasies and the odd logic and longing that govern their lives. No One Belongs Here More Than You is a stunning debut, blisteringly good-the work of a writer with a spectacularly original and compelling voice." We love Friends simply because of their stories on love and life. This book is full of short stories to make you really understand the small joys, heartbreaks, and agonies that come along with life. You will be able to identify with these stories just like you can connect with the cast of Friends.
Yes Please by Amy Poehler - Amy Poehler was never a character in Friends, but she does carry the same wit and sarcasm that we can hear between the Friends cast through the seasons. See how she approaches life, love, and friends in her first book. "Do you want to get to know the woman we first came to love on Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade? Do you want to spend some time with the lady who made you howl with laughter on Saturday Night Live, and in movies like Baby Mama, Blades of Glory, and They Came Together? Do you find yourself daydreaming about hanging out with the actor behind the brilliant Leslie Knope on Parks and Recreation? Did you wish you were in the audience at the last two Golden Globes ceremonies, so you could bask in the hilarity of Amy's one-liners? If your answer to these questions is "Yes Please!" then you are in luck. In her first book, one of our most beloved funny folk delivers a smart, pointed, and ultimately inspirational read. Full of the comedic skill that makes us all love Amy, Yes Please is a rich and varied collection of stories, lists, poetry (Plastic Surgery Haiku, to be specific), photographs, mantras and advice. With chapters like "Treat Your Career Like a Bad Boyfriend," "Plain Girl Versus the Demon" and "The Robots Will Kill Us All" Yes Please will make you think as much as it will make you laugh. Honest, personal, real, and righteous, Yes Please is full of words to live by."
Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps by Kelly Williams Brown - Through the ten seasons of Friends, we learned a lot about grown-up experiences, how to approach them and what to do when you get into the thick of it. Phoebe has taught us not to care what anyone thinks of us, they taught us that it is okay not to have a plan, or even a "pla", Joey taught us to always keep fighting for what you want, and so many more great lessons. With this being said, anything Friends didn't teach you, this book can help you with. "If you graduated from college but still feel like a student . . . if you wear a business suit to job interviews but pajamas to the grocery store . . . if you have your own apartment but no idea how to cook or clean . . . it's OK. But it doesn't have to be this way. Just because you don't feel like an adult doesn't mean you can't act like one. And it all begins with this funny, wise, and useful book. Based on Kelly Williams Brown's popular blog, Adulting, makes the scary, confusing "real world" approachable, manageable -- and even conquerable."
