You Don't Have to Grow Up, You Just Have to Pretend
If you’re not amongst the nearly two million YouTube subscribers of ‘It’s Grace’, you probably are a little skeptical as to why anyone would want her life advice in the newly released Grace’s Guide: the Art of Pretending to be a Grown-Up. We have seemingly filed the book under humor (Good old 818.602 in the Dewey Decimal Classification System); but it would equally be at home with the rest of the self-help books. Apparently, keeping your attitude light and humorous (or perhaps being from YouTube) means your advice is branded as simply humor.
Don’t be fooled, though, because this book manages to say some important things while handily coating the good life advice with spoonfuls of humor. Which basically makes Grace a sort of Millennial self-help Mary Poppins. Interspersed throughout the chapters, Grace shares anecdotes and other personal stories that help make the whole effort way more relatable than the hundreds of tomes by self-important, self-aggrandizing self-help ‘gurus’. The book is also super visual, filled with great pictures of Grace in bizarre and funny costumes to help illustrate her points (and also features some cameos from her friends, such as My Drunk Kitchen’s Hannah Hart). Overall, while her advice may not be groundbreaking, or change your life in amazing ways – but you’ll get good advice and good laughs. My only caveat is that the more cynical Gen-Xers and older types might be left feeling a little cool to Grace's perceived impossibilities of adulthood. If you've ever found yourself blaming younger generations for being all lazy or selfish or irresponsible... well, you might not want to read this one.