Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-up

Grace Helbig

Oct 2014 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

#1 New York Times Bestseller

By the host of The Grace Helbig Show on E! and the it’sGrace YouTube channel, comedian Grace Helbig offers an irreverent and illustrated guide to life for anyone faced with the challenge of growing up.

Infused with her trademark saucy, sweet, and funny voice, Grace’s Guide is a tongue-in-cheek handbook for millennials, encompassing everything a young or new (or regular or old) adult needs to know, from how to live online to landing a job to surviving a breakup to decorating a first apartment, and much more. Charmingly illustrated, Grace’s Guide features full-color photos, interactive worksheets, and exclusive stories from Grace’s own misadventures, including her disastrous interview for NBC’s Page Program, her lifelong struggles with anxiety, the first (and also last) time she entered a beauty pageant, meeting her first boyfriend at a high school Latin convention, and many other hilarious lessons she learned the hard way.

Amusing and unexpectedly educational, this refreshing and colorful guide proves that becoming an adult doesn’t necessarily mean you have to grow up.

Ratings and reviews

Being in my mid 20s, I can relate to a lot of these things. The way this is written, makes you feel it is okay to not know what you're doing, where you're going or what to do with your life in general. A witty, light and fun read. Secretly hoping there will be a sequel. Big thumbs up (the butt), as she would say.

I bought the audiobook on a Tuesday. Listened to it in intervals during that day and finished it. Then on Wednesday I started over again and finished it once again. Twice and two days. I love this book. It’s hilarious, as expected of Grace, and very informative! Already I have plans to buy the physical copy and go back to highlight parts I know are going to be useful to me - which will be most of the book, let’s be honest. Best guide book I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to. 

GRACE HELBIG, possibly the funniest and classiest woman on the planet in my opinion. This book I've finished 5 times both audio book of her reading aloud and actually reading it. Her dry sense of humor along with her usage of the English language kills me every time because, she is freaking funny. I recommend this to anyone for a good read for both the funnies and the good advise she gives in this book.

About the author

Grace Helbig, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Grace’s Guide, is a comedian, actress, YouTube personality, and co-host of the podcast This Might Get Weird. She previously hosted DailyGrace on My Damn Channel, before leaving in January to create her own YouTube channel, it’sGrace, which has millions subscribers. Grace is the executive producer and star of the feature film Camp Takota. She is the winner of the People’s Voice Webby Award for Best First Person Format and the Streamy Award for Personality of the Year and Best First-Person Series. Grace has been named one of Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch, Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business, and Forbes’s 30 under 30.