What a cute book! This is a perfect book for someone starting a new job, and also to use as inspiration when needing to change up the words. It reads like a dictionary, with some comments and suggestions for how to use each word. I think it would have been helpful to have pronunciation since a lot of the words seemed difficult.

Overall, cute book with good office humor in the mix.

A very entertaining book! Provides all sorts of examples on how to up your email game at work. A significant portion of this book basically serves as a thesaurus, providing entertaining and imaginative suggestions to replace the normal boring emails we send and receive at work. I loved the suggested out of office replies!

Short and fun read set up in a dictionary format with the authors humorous and witty commentary. This book provides you with professional alternatives for words we really want to say at work as well as some fun terns to add to your conversations. The book also serves as a fun conversation starter or introduction of some random fact trivia !

It was entertaining, if you enjoy synonyms. I learned a few new interesting words and enjoy the chapter names. Beyond that, not quite what I was expecting. More thesaurus thank antidotal.

Greetings from the pit of despair!
If you are tired of the same old emails at work, give this handy guide a try! It’s a super entertaining and extremely informative read. There are some terms in this book that I know and use. Others were very new to me even though they are hundreds of years old.

I’m torn between buying copies of this book for everyone I know, or just keeping one book at my desk and let the office staff think I’m actually that smart/creative.

Huge shout out to #NetGalley and Andrews McMeely Publishing for supplying an e-read for my honest review.

Fare thee well, Good Reader!

As someone who communicates mostly via email, I fully endorse the widespread reading of this book because #hilariousfacts.
It's filled with vocabulary that while new to me, I could completely relate to and it's such a fun quirky, witty and useful book to read about how we communicate.
Thanks Netgalley for the eARC.

It was okay. Basically reading a dictionary/thesaurus. I enjoyed learning all the new words - pronunciation guide would have been helpful.

I can see how it can be funny (to be fair I did snort at a couple of things) but it is not my type of humour.

Read a digital version of this so not sure what the hardcopy is like. It could perhaps be an interesting mini coffee table book.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this ARC.

This was more interesting than amusing. I enjoyed the variety of words and the suggested phrasings for emails and other work-related conversations, but I went into this expecting it to be humor and it was almost more of a reference text. That's not to say it wasn't well done. It would be good reading for new grads and people transitioning into their first professional jobs.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review.

Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book. This is right up up my street as I love learning new words and the workplace can be a particularly dreary place on the language front. Looking forward to throwing some new words and phrasing out, if for no other reason than to watch colleague’s confusion! A very entertaining read which I devoured in one evening!

This is a comic but also useful look at some of the curious idioms we use in our office communications. What better to do when returning to the office than 'turn over a new leaf' in your professional vocabulary? Filled with much slicker but sometimes also funnier alternatives to some of the overused office phrases. This is the perfect gift for your office bestie or secret Santa.

I just reviewed Per My Last Email by Stephanie K. Wright. #PerMyLastEmail #NetGalley. Fun, quick witty read. It was a a good change from the other types in this genre.

Words. They are everywhere, and for almost anything you want to express, there are multitudes of ways to enunciate what you want to say. We just don't use them.

Anyone remembers Eliza? That chat program that almost passed the Turing Test and which sounded like a psychoanalyst? Well, to survive in modern day offices, Eliza would only need half her brain (and vocabulary), because we all tend to use the same phrases over and over again. We're all walking in trodden paths in the office.

Lucky for us, Stephanie Wright is there to help us out. She lays open those well worn phrases, and offers us mesmerizing alternatives, so we can all be having a meaningful congregation instead of another mind-boggingly boring meeting.

Equipped with this knowledge, you'll never be in an abulomania over which words to use again!

All in all, this is a splendiferous dictionary of selcouth words. You might enjoy it if language is your thing! A point of criticism for me of that this is rather short, and I would have loved more examples. Maybe even a whole meeting - pardon: congregation - script using examples from this book.

Written with light humor and organized by work-related topics. The book is part average dictionary and part slang guide useful whether you are a younger or older employee and maybe helpful for those in other cultural situations. For example, an American may find some words that may be more common in the UK and vice versa. Index of words are listed at the end of the book to aid quick lookup.

Greetings from the overworked!

As someone guilty of using the phrase ‘per my last email,’ I was naturally drawn to this book.

Per my last email is a fun and quirky guide which provides alternative phrases and words to spruce up your commonly used corporate terminology (i.e., “let’s circle back,” “follow up,” or my personal favorite, “you’re on mute.”)

This book was a fun and easy read to help you broaden your corporate vocabulary. There’s something for everyone to enjoy, from unique swear words, office greetings, and how to resign with panache. I learned more than a few words reading this.

I can see this book coming in handy for sales reps/ customer service professionals who are always looking for unique and catchy opening sentences to cold emails.

At times I found myself laughing audibly—especially while reading the ‘Fun with Autoreply’ section. This was my favorite section. I need to make a mental note to use some of these phrases in my next out-of-office message!

Taking a page from this book, I’ll end this review by saying, Toodles!

Many thanks to Netgalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for providing my review copy.

Salutations, fellow reader bees,

I absolutely love this cute, informative, extremely helpful source for my work related interactions.

Upon reading this, I immediately updated my auto-reply email for when I'm out of office and changed my generic signature at the bottom of every email.

I love it so much. Apart from just sprucing up my work vocabulary and learning some cool old/new words, I also laughed quite a bit.

The only thing that could have made this better is a pronunciation guide to some (if not all) of the words. Some are obvious, but it might be challenging to pronounce a few. I'll have to look some up before using them confidently in the office.

You're the bee's knees,
Kirsty