{"id":32347,"date":"2025-02-04T10:32:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/aj-browns-booktok-moment-helped-the-super-bowl-bound-eagles-and-an-unknown-author\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T10:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:32:32","slug":"aj-browns-booktok-moment-helped-the-super-bowl-bound-eagles-and-an-unknown-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/aj-browns-booktok-moment-helped-the-super-bowl-bound-eagles-and-an-unknown-author\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ Brown\u2019s BookTok moment helped the Super Bowl-bound Eagles and an unknown author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Eagles\u2019 star wideout was caught on camera reading a self-help tome on the sideline during a playoff game. Now the book is a No 1 bestseller and Philly are in the Super Bowl<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Jessica Parker is papped on the regular dashing around the West Village with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/uk\/life-and-culture\/culture\/a61506824\/sarah-jessica-parker-and-just-like-that-book\/\">hot new novel<\/a> in her grip. Actor and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/14\/t-magazine\/natalie-portman-jonathan-safran-foer-emails.html\">onetime Jonathan Safran Foer correspondent<\/a> Natalie Portman uses Instagram to flaunt her bibliophile status, posting selfies with a cocked eyebrow peeking out from behind what is often a highbrow work in translation. Now there\u2019s a new bookfluencer on the scene: 27-year-old Philadelphia Eagles star wide receiver AJ Brown, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NFLonFOX\/status\/1878597906321609099\">spotted during the fourth quarter of a recent playoff game<\/a> against the Green Bay Packers looking pensive on the sidelines with his nose burrowed in a paperback.<\/p>\n<p>Though Brown\u2019s performance that day was below his All-Pro standard, the Eagles won the game 22-10. Within 24 hours, the clunkily titled but undeniably winsome <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/INNER-EXCELLENCE-Extraordinary-Performance-Possible\/dp\/1734654805\/ref=asc_df_1734654805?mcid=40744630bf3b3651a841f99923ddb7fb&amp;hvocijid=14961446126759521762-1734654805-&amp;hvexpln=73&amp;tag=hyprod-20&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=721245378154&amp;hvpos=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=14961446126759521762&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvdvcmdl=&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=9004351&amp;hvtargid=pla-2281435180458&amp;psc=1\">Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance and the Best Possible Life<\/a> was the No 1 selling book across all categories on Amazon after previously being ranked 523,497th, beating out everything from Mel Robbins\u2019s blockbuster self-help tome <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/wellness\/2025\/jan\/29\/let-them-mel-robbins-self-help-mantra\">Let Them<\/a> and all the weird shapeshifter stories that are fueling the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2025\/01\/13\/did-a-best-selling-romantasy-novelist-steal-another-writers-story\">romantasy bonanza<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/04\/aj-brown-inner-excellence-book-meme\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eagles\u2019 star wideout was caught on camera reading a self-help tome on the sideline during a playoff game. Now the book is a No 1 bestseller and Philly are in the Super Bowl Sarah Jessica Parker is papped on the regular dashing around the West Village with a hot new novel in her grip. &#8230; <a title=\"AJ Brown\u2019s BookTok moment helped the Super Bowl-bound Eagles and an unknown author\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/aj-browns-booktok-moment-helped-the-super-bowl-bound-eagles-and-an-unknown-author\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about AJ Brown\u2019s BookTok moment helped the Super Bowl-bound Eagles and an unknown author\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}