Must Read: Couric's the Best Advice I Ever Got

My first must-read of 2013: 

Barnes and Nobles

I admit it. I'd never heard of Katie Couric before my sister's graduation. I never watch TV news since I never got into a habit of it in high school as I attended boarding school. 

I then used BBC, NY Times online etc for news rather than watching the news. 

At my sister's graduation from Boston University in May 2011, I was dozing off for the graduation speeches because it was so cold and I was mildly bored. Then, Katie Couric came onto the podium. 

I woke up and listened through her speech until the end. 

She mentioned her book The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives , and I'd wanted to read it, but it slipped my mind as I got busier as school progressed. Then, when I was asking around for book suggestions for my flight in December, a friend suggested it to me.

Long story short, it's hard to find books you want to read in the kindle editions from the library. They're either all checked out or they're simply unavailable. And oddly enough, Katie Couric's book was there. So of course I remembered May 2011 and checked the book out! 

Well, like her speech, it did not disappoint me. I'm still only about half way through the book, but I have made up my mind to buy the actual book when I get back home. 

It's an autobiograpy of Katie Couric and essay advices she received from people whom she'd met over her years in her job. It's relatively easy to read and it's making me so much more positive about life in general. 

Though most gave the same advice of work hard, do not give up, it was a good book overall, because hey, in the world today, we need that message told to us over and over again so that we don't give up. 

It makes me want to go out to the world right now and conquer it!

By the way, this is the link to her speech at Boston University. It was fabulous! 

This will definitely be my go-to book when I am down and in need of inspiration. 

What're your go-to books when you are down?