Thursday, May 7, 2015

All I Know Now (Carrie Hope Fletcher)

Released on April 23rd 2015, All I Know Now: Wonderings and Reflections On Growing up Gracefully is the first book by British YouTuber and actress Carrie Hope Fletcher. Although she prefers to think of herself as primarily an actress, Fletcher has amassed more than half a million followers on her YouTube channel "ItsWayPastMyBedTime." 

While many books released by YouTubers take the form of memoirs, All I Know Now is more of a guide or advice book for her teenage viewers. Fletcher organizes her book like a play, with an Overture, eight acts, a finale, and a curtain call. Each "Act" deals with different subject matter. She deals with everything from making to friend, to internet etiquette ("Internetiquette"), sex, relationships and life goals.
Underneath the dust jacket, the front board of the book shows the definition of hopeful,
 a quality Fletcher strives to embody 
Although I am slightly older than the target audience for All I Know Now, and although I would have enjoyed a few more personal anecdotes, Fletcher has written a solid book. There's nothing groundbreaking in the life advice that she presents to her readers, but the advice she offers is sound and, I expect, helpful for her teenage readers and YouTube viewers. 
Fletcher's note to readers on the front fly-leaf of the dust jacket

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