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From comedian and journalist Beliefs Salie of NPR's Delay Wait...Don't Notify Me! and CBS Media Sunday Morning hours, a collection of humorous essays chronicling the author's activities during her lifelong quest for approval. Beliefs Salie has done everything in the name of validation. Be it trying to make an impression her parents with a perfect GPA, getting into a religious retreat in the hopes of saving her toxic relationship, or preserving the BMI of "a flapper with some dysentery", Salie is the best acceptance seeker - an "approval junkie", if you will. In "Miss Aphrodite", she recounts her technique for winning the high school beauty pageant ("Not to brag or anything, but no-one stood a chance against my emaciated, spastic resolve"); in "My Summer season Fling with Invoice O'Reilly", Salie tries to make an impression on Bill O'Reilly during their interview ("Papa Carry probably didn't think he could love a girl like me, but I would prove him wrong before a couple of white people who like guns"). "What I Used to My Divorce" describes Salie's battle to select the perfect attire to wear to the courthouse to divorce her "wasband" ("I envisioned a glance that said, 'Yo, THIS is what you'll be lacking...even though you've presented your new sweetheart to our common friends, and she's a decade younger than I am and is also a fit model"), and in "Wait, Hold out, Don't Notify Me About Batman's Nipples" she reveals the trick to her hilarious jokes on Delay Wait...Don't Notify Me! ("I study for this show like Tracy Flick on Adderall"). With thoughtful irreverence, Salie reflects on why it is she attempts so difficult to please others and especially herself, highlighting a trend that many people - especially women - experience at home and at work. Identical parts laugh-out-loud funny and poignant, Authorization Junkie is one woman's voyage to the realization that seeking acceptance from others is more than simply getting them to like you - it's challenging yourself to achieve - and endure - more than you ever before thought you could.
