read this for inspiration: simple sparks to ignite your life

From former BuzzFeed personality Ashly Perez comes a funny, honest, and unabashedly feminist book of inspiration and wisdom to help you plant some roots, live in the process, and accept you for you.

We each need a little push in order to live the life we want. Wisdom and motivation can be found everywhere, and Ashly Perez compiles tons of it in Read This for Inspiration. She pulls these sparks from figures in pop culture, history, literature, and even from her own mother, peppering in her own strong wit and humor.

References and sayings from the likes of Carl Sagan, Theodore Roosevelt, and Nora Ephron give these essays star power and remind you of your own potential, prompting you to take action. The short and approachable style of Perez's entries makes her message really hit home. Her writing is engaging, evocative, and sure to spark inspiration.

Ashly Perez is a writer, producer, director, and actor. During her five-year career at BuzzFeed, she was one of the co-creators and a producer of BuzzFeed Violet, BuzzFeed’s first scripted character universe, and starred in over 250 videos. Her writing has been published in BuzzFeed, HelloGiggles, The Conversation, and Darling magazine, and she has been featured on NPR’s Take Two and Call Your Girlfriend, among others. Now she writes for the hit Freeform show Good Trouble.