Emily Post's Etiquette: Manners for Today (Emily's Post's Etiquette) by Lizzie Post

Emily Post's Etiquette: Manners for Today (Emily's Post's Etiquette) Reviews

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  Rory G.

  In a bid to be accessible to all, the new generation of Posts has de-emphasized rules in favor of a focus on a polite attitude, meaning one focused on respect and kindness. While this may be a useful, inclusive, PC turn, it makes a manners guidebook useless. When each rule is, ‘it’s up to your discretion’ or ‘ask the other person,’ then we aren’t getting what we came to the book for: hard behavioral rules that people who were not socialized into the upper classes want to ensure they’re up-to-speed on.
  
  Easy read, though so poorly organized that, a few minutes into the audiobook, the exact same section will appear repeated (ex: the leaning-the-seat-back-on-public-transport debate). But nice and light and pleasant compared to heavier fiction. Hard to read through, fully, because of how dry and common-sensical it is.
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  Carter Reads Classics

  I like I don’t care what you guys say.