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| The Art of Imperfection: Simple Ways to Make Peace with Yourself | 
 enlarge | Author: Veronique Vienne
Creator: Erica Lennard
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Category: Book
List Price: $17.00
Buy Used: $0.01
You Save: $16.99 (100%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 6.8 x 0.5
ISBN: 0609605216
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.1
EAN: 9780609605219
Publication Date: August 17, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Personal inscription inside. Book is GOOD with average wear to cover and pages. We offer a no-hassle guarantee on all our items. Orders generally ship by the next business day. Default Text
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Product Description
Forgive yourself: Self-acceptance doesn't have to be hard work. Cultivate your most pleasurable flaws. Find out when not to have the last word. Don't be afraid to ask silly questions. Learn to make lists--and forget them. And remember: The most perfect moments usually happen at the most imperfect time.
Amazon.com Review
"Our innate idiosyncrasies are actually more endearing to others than our most glorious personal achievements," writes author Veronique Vienne in this pretty little book, with its intriguing, sepia-tone photographs by Erica Lennard. Vienne offers 10 meditative essays about how to be successful and happy without being perfect. Quirkiness, after all, is creative. She encourages you to "find solace in your shortcomings and even celebrate your most embarrassing lapses." The essays include "the art of making mistakes," "the art of looking like yourself," "the art of having nothing to wear," and "the art of being neither rich nor famous." Vienne envisions a world where people could bump into furniture and forget to return phone calls "without getting unduly annoyed with themselves," never consult shopping lists at the checkout counter, and "only carry bags you could use as pillows." This is a delightful book, but there's a major problem: anyone over 40 will have trouble reading it. The small, brown type on gray pages is artsy to the point of being barely legible, even with reading glasses. Buy this for a youthful reader! --Joan Price
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 The Art of Self-Acceptance September 29, 2008
While I wouldn't say that I've accepted all of my flaws completely, I'm certainly a lot more forgiving of my imperfections and occassional foibles than I was 10 years ago during what Gail Sheehy refers to as the "Trying Twenties," which are characterized by the "shoulds."
I'm sure aging has something to do with my journey toward self-acceptance, but of course I can't negate the wonderful books I read along the way like Veronique Vienne's The Art of Imperfection: Simple Ways to Make Peace with Yourself. I purchased this book from the Strand on a day that started out horribly. I'd just had my second child and was feeling overwhelmed and overweight. I plucked this book off the shelf and read half of it right there.
Since I was feeling quite unattractive that day I was captured by this line. "The best beauty product is to have a life. A real life. With challenges, disappointments, stress and laughter."
After that day, this book became a tool I've referred to extensively for close to 8 years.
a must have June 12, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I received this book as a shower gift for the birth of my third child from an aunt who has 5 children herself. In it, she wrote: "Imperfection is the most you can strive for, Insanity is what you try to avoid." Having 2 little ones in diapers and cribs at the same time I now know what she means. I loved this book because it make me feel like it was okay to not only be myself, but to celebrate it and enjoy it.
 This book is ok but imperfect March 9, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I got this book looking for some occasional inspiration on self acceptance. While there's some value in the essays, quite a bit of the text is rather inane. A fairly substantial portion of the essays are geared toward women, a fact not mentioned on the cover of the introduction. On the other hand, the photos are really quite interesting.Retail selling price is a bit high for a 96-page book. Still, it's perfectly acceptable as a coffee table book and worth purchasing if you can get it at a discount.
 Blah, blah, blah.... June 18, 2002
11 out of 24 found this review helpful
I was really disappointed with this book - I purchased it with the notion in my head that I would be receiving something enjoyable, relaxing, perhaps even inspirational. I received none of the aforementioned. Dull - perhaps a better word. At times, goofy and just plain boring. This book is a real dud.
A simple and elegant book. January 26, 2002
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I found this book to be a delightful surprise. After a lifetime of frustration in search of perfection from myself and everything and everyone else around me I realized that could be much happier if I just listened to the philosophies of this writer and just let it go. This is a very pretty and comforting book and one that I intend to keep on the bedside table in case I need a gentle reminder. I would buy all Veronique Vienne's books.
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