📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 Scrappy Little Nobody
AUTHOR: Anna Kendrick @annakendrick47
Publisher: Gallery Books @gallerybooks
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐1/2 + 🐰
Published: November 15, 2016
The Review 📚 Scrappy Little Nobody
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- This book had been sitting in my Audible queue forever. It is my goal to clear my TBR this year so I started here.
💜 What I liked:
- Since this book was narrated by the author, it really gave an insight into the actress’ life and how she got started in acting. The stories are very entertaining. She is down to earth and quite lovely.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- For me, while I love the stories, it seemed like there wasn’t enough content. Hopefully there will be another book in about 20 years with more insight and fun!
🚦 My face at the end: 🤗🦄
💬 The Narrator: Anna is a great narrator. Everything is upbeat and clear.
💭 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Child actor
- 2. Friend Insight
- 3. Awards season
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Anna writes about how she got started in acting.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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📘 Summary 📚 Scrappy Little Nobody
A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect.
Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen starring in films like Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air, Twilight, and Into the Woods, Anna Kendrick was unusually small, weird, and “10 percent defiant.”
At the ripe age of thirteen, she had already resolved to “keep the crazy inside my head where it belonged. Forever. But here’s the thing about crazy: It. Wants. Out.” In Scrappy Little Nobody, she invites readers inside her brain, sharing extraordinary and charmingly ordinary stories with candor and winningly wry observations.
With her razor-sharp wit, Anna recounts the absurdities she’s experienced on her way to and from the heart of pop culture as only she can—from her unusual path to the performing arts (Vanilla Ice and baggy neon pants may have played a role) to her double life as a middle-school student who also starred on Broadway to her initial “dating experiments” (including only liking boys who didn’t like her back) to reviewing a binder full of butt doubles to her struggle to live like an adult woman instead of a perpetual “man-child.”
Enter Anna’s world and follow her rise from “scrappy little nobody” to somebody who dazzles on the stage, the screen, and now the page—with an electric, singular voice, at once familiar and surprising, sharp and sweet, funny and serious (well, not that serious).