#fromthecorneroftheoval

New in paperback at @doylestownbookshop! We recommend #browse edited by Henry Hitchings for obvious 📚❤️ reasons, and #fromthecorneroftheoval by @beckdoreystein, and these two gems from #resistancelibrary by #erichfromm. . . . . . #doylestownbookshop #independentbookstore #indiebookstore #paperback #newreleases #newinpaperback #bookrecs #indiebookrecs #bookstagram #booksofig #booksofinstagram #bookphoto (at The Doylestown Bookshop) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1EdDu9DRir/?igshid=m2j86g3olyf3

H U M A N 📚 “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek” • Barack Obama.⠀ ⠀ In recent years I haven’t so much been a book worm as a book sloth but I bloody loved this one by @beckdoreystein so so much and blitzed through it in just two days!⠀ ⠀ I’ve never been one for politics (in a literary sense) but this book is so eye opening in so many ways • Not only is it the story of the Obama administration, the story of one woman’s journey of self discovery but it’s also the story of hope.⠀ ⠀ Hope that one day things will change, that one day we will be who we want to be and that one day every thing will be OK.⠀ ⠀ And it will be.⠀ ⠀ #fromthecorneroftheoval #barackobama #holidayreads #lookup⠀ (at Crete) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0SbD8uhF2i/?igshid=1fr5i6y2dopu3

“The most important lesson I gleaned from my time at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue had less to do with politics and everything to do with navigating my 20s, regardless of where I was – Seoul or Senegal or the South Lawn. Working at the White House is unlike working anywhere else, but also exactly like working everywhere else. There will be colleagues you whole-heartedly adore and others you cannot stand. This is okay. This is normal. There will be opportunities you seize and others you miss. This is okay, too. There will be big demands and not enough hours in the day and fun parties missed because work got in the way. It sucks, but this is how it goes. And there will be awkward bathroom interactions we’d prefer to forget. Totally normal too. But most of all, regardless of where or how you spend your twenties, there will be time. You just need to do the work.”

“Beck maintains that she was the least important person in the White House. But if there’s anything I learned from her memoir, it’s that simply being part of President Obama’s staff made her a crucial part of the team. And I think he would agree. Ahead, we discuss everything from traveling the world with the president to finding supportive female friends at work. Even though you’ve probably never flown on Air Force One or shared a hotel gym with POTUS, you’ll still relate to Beck’s stories of making friends, getting your heart broken, and finding your voice in your twenties.”

It’s pub day!!!

“During the Obama administration, there were five official White House photographers. Needless to say, they are beyond talented, and I was beyond grateful when Chuck Kennedy surprised me with this candid as an early Christmas gift. This is From the Corner of the Roosevelt Room during an interview. While covering President Obama was always an honor, I particularly enjoyed listening to his interviews, when he would invariably use a word I didn't know and would later look up. I miss having a leader with a vocabulary more extensive than mine.” - Beck Dorey-Stein

Head to @Medium to read an exclusive excerpt from Beck Dorey-Stein's new memoir FROM THE CORNER OF THE OVAL. On sale July 10th!