Sunday September 23, 2012 at Queen's Park, 11am - 6pm
Neil Pasricha
Event Info: Scotiabank Giller Prize Bestsellers Stage at 4:30 PM
Neil Pasricha is the author of The Book of Awesome which was inspired by his wildly popular blog 1000awesomethings.com. The Book of Awesomebecame the runaway bestseller of last year and spent over 30 weeks on the national bestseller lists. Neil started his blog 1000 Awesome Things, as a small reminder — in a world of rising sea levels, global conflict, and a troubled economy — of the free, easy little joys that make life sweet. To date his site has a readership of millions, won two Webby Awards (“the Internet’s highest honor” according to The New York Times), has been named one of PC Magazine’s Top 100 Sites, and has become a place where people from around the world come to celebrate the simple pleasures of daily life.
Books
The Book of Awesome
From neighbors with pools to ordering off the menu at fast-food restaurants to fixing electronics by smacking them, The Book of Awesome takes on life’s sweet feats with all the honest humor and winning enthusiasm that has earned Pasricha’s blog its millions of followers. But while powered along by Pasricha’s distinctive, fresh, and hilarious voice, The Book of Awesome isn’t about one man’s favorite things, but rather a catalog of the universal little pleasures we all share. With its focus on the many things that bring us together rather than the few things that split us apart, it’s a book that will appeal to people from all walks of life — housewives and college kids, children and senior citizens alike. Arising out of Pasricha’s riffs on popping bubble wrap and getting a trucker to blow his horn is an unexpected, genuine sort of inspiration, as The Book of Awesome offers up a hearty cheer for all the little things we take for granted.
The Book of Even More Awesome
From the author of the #1 international bestseller The Book of Awesome and the award-winning, multimillion-hit website 1000awesomethings.com comes EVEN MORE of the little things that make us smile every day! Neil Pasricha is back with a collection of hundreds more awesome things from the website, as well as never-before-seen extraordinary moments that deserve celebration like letting go of the gas pump perfectly so you end on a round number, when a baby falls asleep on you, pulling a weed and getting all the roots with it, when your windshield wipers match the beat of the song you’re listening to, the smooth feeling on your teeth when you get your braces off, driving from a rough road onto a smooth one, when the person you’re meeting is even later than you are, and that guy who helps you parallel park.
