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Scrappy Little Nobody
Scrappy Little Nobody | Anna Kendrick
A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of "Up in the Air" and "Pitch Perfect." I m excited to publish my first book, and because I get uncomfortable when people have high expectations, I'd like to use this opportunity to showcase my ineptitude, pettiness, and the frequency with which I embarrass myself. And while many of my female inspirations who have become authors are incredibly well-educated and accomplished comedy writers, I'm very, very funny on Twitter, according to Buzzfeed and my mom, so I feel like this is a great idea. Quick question: are run-on sentences still frowned upon? Wait, is ending a sentence with a preposition still frowned upon? I mean, upon frowned? Dammit! Anna Kendrick Anna Kendrick s autobiographical collection of essays amusingly recounts memorable moments throughout her life, from her middle class upbringing in New England to the blockbuster movies that have made her one of Hollywood s most popular actresses today. Expanding upon the witty and ironic dispatches for which she is known, Anna Kendrick s essays offer her one-of-a-kind commentary on the absurdities she s experienced on her way to and from the heart of pop culture."
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Court7
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Audio book, re-read. Great roadtrip listen.

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PuSsNbOoKs
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"I love rules and I love following them; unless that rule is stupid."

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ShananigansReads
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I think many will agree with me when I say this was nothing revolutionary but I enjoyed it.

#BookspinBingo

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Bookishgal71
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Listened to this in the car on a cross continent trip from Los Angeles to Toronto. I have a daughter who is in “the biz” and this is an interesting perspective. I‘ve always liked Anna Kendrick as a performer and this book makes it seem like she really doesn‘t hide her true self. I love how real she is, and with real people problems and a normal family. No sob stories. Just hard work.

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Lauragrace
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So Anna...... can we like be best friends already??

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Kris10H
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My Rating: 5/5 (Audiobook)
If you enjoyed Anna in the Pitch Perfect movies, A Simple Favor, Lip Sync Battle, her Twitter posts, or any of her other projects, you will enjoy this book. She is every bit as sarcastic, quirky, and neurotic as you'd expect, and it makes for a very interesting read. ❤

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KimberlyJuracich
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I thought this was hilarious. I love her sense of humor.

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DieAReader
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#JoyousJanuary

5⭐️

This was my second/final audiobook completed & I almost forgot to post this🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏 3y
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eanderson
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I enjoy listening to celebrities read their own books. This was enjoyable. I adore Anna Kendrick. She‘s ok with being who she is and doesn‘t care if it bothers someone. First goal for #dashingdecember complete and book number 2! 3.5/5🌟

Andrew65 👏👏👏 3y
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Addison_Reads
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This was just barely a pick. It was enjoyable and I even laughed a few times. Anna Kendrick did a great job reading this, there were just some sections that felt like they didn't quite fit with the other stories she shared.

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whatrebeccasread
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Anna Kendrick's autobiography is a humorous read and I'm sure that it would be well loved by her huge fan base, but for me, I'm sorry to say that it wasn't that interesting or memorable - 2 stars.

My full review is up on my blog now 📚

Kloves2read I love when celebrities, who are so young write autobiography‘s. Their story hasn‘t ended, they are still so young and so much life ahead of them. They think they are far more interesting then they really are. 🙄 4y
whatrebeccasread @Kloves2read interestingly, Anna Kendrick actually says the same thing in her book! She said something about perhaps writing another in her 80s when she's got more of a story to tell! 4y
Kloves2read LOL! Maybe her publicist thought it would a good idea, to generate more revenue? She‘s not even that famous! 4y
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Calesse
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I was literally laughing out loud at home alone in my bed reading this. Really good light hearted humor that endears me to Anna Kendrick even more than I already was. I‘ll definitely be lending this out to my friends!

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RickW
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Not sure what I was expecting but I think I got more than I bargained for. The early parts of the book seemed to drag on, possibly because I could not relate to it. But later I loved the “inside baseball” reveal and the witty and sarcastic insights on life, chauvinism, theater and the movie industry. There is a near meandering quality that sometimes makes you feel that you are in on a manic session. That‘s a plus and a minus. Overall I liked it.

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Chelsunderthesea91
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Just finished this gem and love how ‘nice‘ she is in it. For those who have read it of course I mean nice I‘m the witty, sarcastic, and unapologetic way this is written. Most actors and actresses with memoirs try hard to be relatable with readers; Kendrick had me at mentioning Yellow Rat Bastard in NYC.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#popsugarreadingchallenge2020

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A fun, fast read. Didn‘t realize how long she‘d been acting, how many stage shows and movies she‘d done, or how many things I‘d seen her in. Seems like a pretty down to earth, genuine sort of person. She speaks her mind and makes no apologies for it.

#memoir

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I knew this was gonna be a 5 star even before I read it. It was hilarious and dirtier than I anticipated so definitely dont listen to this out loud. It made 100x better that she narrated it herself. She is hilarious.

StayCurious I love her so much and this book was great! 4y
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Happy Friday All! Got my audiobook on at work and my coffee so I can get sh*t done!

Read-y_Picker I don‘t know how you do it! I always lose track of what I listening to lol 4y
natalieebloom I LOVE THIS BOOK!! I imagine it‘s awesome to hear it in her voice 4y
Bono394 I really loved this one. I also listened to it. Solid choice! 4y
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rather_be_reading @Read-y_Picker well i was alone in the office so that helped! 4y
rather_be_reading @natalieebloom omg it was so much better bc she narrated it 4y
rather_be_reading @Bono394 it was super good! 4y
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dainarmb
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I hope everyone is staying healthy and safe during the Coronavirus outbreak! Unfortunately my selections for Graphic Novel and "title begins with M" are in quarantine at my county library, so going to be reading a book with a green cover next! What are y'all reading during this period of social distancing?

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dainarmb
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Anna Kendrick is insightful, relatable and... a revelation! Enjoyed reading her memoir on a ~5 hr flight home.

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squirrelbrain
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Third audio book ever and I think I‘m finally getting the hang of it! Anna reads this herself and is very funny - it‘s like listening to a friend telling you all of her most embarrassing and proud moments.

Plus...#tripledipping! ⬇️

#booked2020 #makesyouLOL
#mandmchallenge2020 #audio
#jennyis30 #autobiography

AlaMich I find that choosing audiobooks is an art, and you will get a fair number of duds. But when you get a gem, it‘s wonderful! Enjoy! 4y
Cinfhen Definitely true @AlaMich it took a long while before I could listen to fiction on audio 4y
Cinfhen If you like Chelsea Handler she narrates her books and she‘s hilarious to listen to, Helen🤣 4y
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Cinfhen Yay for the #TripleDip 🍦🍦🍦 4y
AlaMich @Cinfhen Right book + right narrator= magic! 4y
Cinfhen @AlaMich 💯‼️ 4y
squirrelbrain I‘ve just started another NF that Im enjoying so far @AlaMich @Cinfhen 4y
squirrelbrain I love Chelsea Handler @Cinfhen ! I‘ll have to have a look those this, as I bet none of her books are on Libby in the UK..... 4y
Cinfhen I hope you find one, Helen!! 4y
youneverarrived These types of books are great on audio! 4y
BarbaraTheBibliophage I love a good celebrity memoir on audiobook! Best ever? 4y
squirrelbrain I‘ve read Born a Crime, but heard so many people say how amazing it is on audio @BarbaraTheBibliophage - maybe I‘ll try it sometime. 4y
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rather_be_reading
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Is it March 9 yet?! I have so many audiobooks waiting for me!!

squirrelbrain I‘m just listening to Scrappy Little Nobody at the moment - it‘s fab! 4y
britt_brooke I liked both of these! 4y
rather_be_reading @squirrelbrain its been on my list forever! 4y
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I didn‘t realize that I was a Kendrick fan until I reflected on all the things she has done that I truly love. Up in the Air. Last Five Years. Trolls. In interviews, she comes off as quirky and down to earth. It‘s more of the same in this book which makes me like her even more.

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dgingo
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3.5 🌟🌟🌟

Enjoyable and funny, especially the book club notes at the book‘s end, but nothing extraordinary. It took be a bit to adjust to Kendrick (and her voice) as the narrator, and the book isn‘t clearly or well-organized as a memoir/autobiography, but she comes across as sincere and “real,” as she offers readers a self-deprecating glimpse into her life and rise in Hollywood.

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alvingregorio
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Crushing hard

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InezRay
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LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was never really a big fan of Anna. I liked her movies, but I didn't know what to think of her. I'd heard this was a funny bio so I thought I'd give it a shot. I didn't regret it at all. It was so funny and a great perspective on a starting movie/broadway career.

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dgingo
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Started this today for all of the campus to campus driving this week. It certainly makes the drive between pre-semester meetings a little more enjoyable. 🎧🗣📖 #Audible

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#BookReport

I finished 5 📚 this past week, but kept to 2 genres: non-fiction and graphic novels. When I have a heavy NF reading month, I always like to balance it out with lighter reads that I can get through in one sitting!

All of these were on my weekly forecast except the 2nd Enchanted book!

Cinfhen Great week!! How‘s that cold??? 4y
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alisiakae
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I love Anna Kendrick, and her memoir is a fun, sometimes serious, romp inside her brain.

#mandmchallenge2020 #celebrity
#pop20 : meant to read in 2019
#audiopuzzling

Bookzombie Just curious, but could this count for set in Hollywood? I already have another planned for that category, but was curious. 4y
wanderinglynn What a cute puzzle! 4y
alisiakae @Bookzombie Yes it could! I almost did use it for that, but I have another one on my TBR pile for this month that also fits (edited) 4y
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Bookzombie @4thhouseontheleft That‘s the one I‘m planning on too! Lol. 4y
MeganAnn This is on my TBR shelf also. I love Anna Kendrick as well ❤️ 4y
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alisiakae
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Took an easy little scenic ride on my Peloton while 🎧 to this book. Looks like I just had a 24 hr bug; feeling fine today!

I may have MOO‘d when the 🐄 🐄 popped up in the video. 😂

readordierachel Glad you're feeling better! 4y
TheAromaofBooks My sister and I once road-tripped from Ohio to Omaha and definitely yelled COW every time we saw one. 😂 4y
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alisiakae
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Maya‘s winter break starts tomorrow!

With a ravenous 12 yr old in the house and in-laws arriving in a few days for Chanukah, this means today is mass grocery shopping, and cleaning out the pantry and fridge to make room for all the snacks that an almost-teen and her friends need to survive. 🤣🤣 Round 2 shopping for fresh produce and meats will happen Monday.

These two 🎧 books are keeping me company today!

britt_brooke Loved both of these! 4y
marleed I hope you have fun through it all! Happy Hanukkah! 4y
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Allthebookclubs
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OK, I‘ll buy it. Yes she came from a normal home and made it. She really made it to Hollywood and now is a critically acclaimed actress. Although I‘m not sure I would call it normal to send your two teenagers to New York alone, but hey maybe I‘m wrong. I found her stories amusing and I hope that she really is down to earth as she screams that she is. Book 43 of 2019.

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Bono394
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I listened to the audio book version of this. Driving to and from work every day with Anna Kendrick talking to you the whole way had been pretty awesome! I love how down to earth and real she is. Lots of great stories and humor.

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Bono394
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"Maybe we all have imposter syndrome and perpetually feel like our real life is right around the corner". -Anyone else find it refreshing to hear celebrities have similar thoughts and feelings as we do?

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Court7
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Quality audio book!!! :)

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alisiakae
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#BookReport and #WeeklyForecast

I only finished two books this week, one of which was a long-awaited hold so it wasn‘t on my weekly forecast. So some repeats for this week!

Cinfhen Looks like you have the Christmas spirit 🎅🏻🎄 4y
Sace I love the Percy Jackson cover! 4y
alisiakae @Cinfhen I'm more the bah humbug variety, but I'm giving it my best effort. 😂Which is why I pick the Xmas book that is about skipping Christmas all together! 😂But I am willing to read outside my comfort zone, most of the holiday books I have picked for this month were recommended by my mom, who loves Xmas stories. In turn, she's attempting to read She Said and The Hate U Give. 4y
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alisiakae @Sace Yes! These are the covers of the editions we have, and they are my favorite version! 4y
alisiakae @Cinfhen It also helps that Maya is old enough now that she doesn't get the passive aggressive pressure from my family to do all the Christmas-y things. That really bothered me when she was younger, it took my family a while to accept she is being raised in Aaron's faith and not the one I grew up with; they still deny that I no longer consider myself Christian. 🙄 4y
Sace @4thhouseontheleft that's an example of a new cover done right! The ones my daughter read had rather bland covers IMO. 4y
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I am thankful for this Litsy community for all their talk of listening to books while they do random things because my world has been blown wide open. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Anna tell me her story

Tamra While I‘m in a grad class, really the only unassigned reading I get done is via audio. It is such a boon!!! 4y
mcctrish @Tamra now if I could just find the earphones that came with my new phone I could be a bit more stealth about it 🤣 4y
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mcctrish
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I have of course misplaced the headphones that came with my phone ( iPhone XR) so none of my stock pile work. Most of the time I listen to my audio book in the car so it doesn‘t matter that I just let it play out loud. Same when I‘m on the treadmill in my basement. But, I need another option. I can‘t handle $329 for real earbuds but these look nice and are under $40 🤔

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mcctrish
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I got totally stuck in traffic today because of a train stopped blocking a major north/south roadway ( welcome to London, Ontario where the city thinks level train crossings are acceptable 🤦🏻‍♀️) but I have my audio book habit going strong so I don‘t even care 😆and I still got to the bakery for these beauties

Rachel.Rencher Those look delish! 4y
mcctrish @Rachel.Rencher I agree ( I haven‘t had one yet, they are so nice looking I hate to bite them ) 4y
TheSpineView Yum! 4y
mcctrish @TheSpineView my kid has eaten 2 behind my back 🙄 4y
TheSpineView @mcctrish Then they must be as good as they look. Kids never eat things they don't like! 🤣 4y
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mcctrish
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Started this today driving around

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Cfmamareads
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Scrappy Little Nobody is funny, quirky and endearing. It's always interesting learning about a celebrity's history. I had no idea that Anna Kendrick got her start as a child star. I have read quite a few celebrity memoirs in the past month and they all are pretty similar, but I appreciate her voice and realness. Her slight sarcasm and quirky humor are similar to my own, so I may have found it funnier than most.

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“Because small talk makes me feel like the world is on fire”

This is so me too! Haha! Great, funny ready. Love her.

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Scochrane26
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Finished this while #audiowalking tonight. I‘ve always liked Anna Kendrick‘s fast talking and awkwardness, so this was a more enjoyable celebrity book than most. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ since it‘s read by her.

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Scochrane26
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Today, I‘ve been much more productive than yesterday or Monday. Went to get an oil change for my car, so I read part of European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman. After I got back to my town, I went ahead and took a walk (2nd walk of #BFCr3). Started tagged book in car and continued on walk. I like this one so far.
Since I‘m packing around a 700-pg book, someone had to point out how big it is, of course. Twice. 🙄

Laughterhp Great day! Sounds very productive. Must be very heavy carrying around a 700 page book! 5y
Scochrane26 @laughterhp it‘s not heavy, it‘s just thick. But, I didn‘t want to buy it & library doesn‘t have it for kindle. 5y
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I F*CKING LOVE ANNA KENDRICK!!
This books is hilarious and you can‘t go wrong comparing Zac Efron to Charles Manson. The charming and charismatic part, not the murdery cult part, although.... #litsytbr

britt_brooke Loved this! 5y
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My daughter turned 19 today. She got some books. I happened to also get some books in the mail so, on a whim, we made a video! https://youtu.be/XuL3lyU8sG4

Geeklet Aww! I hope your daughter had a great birthday! 5y
Nebklvr Yeah! Happy birthday! 5y
BethM Lovely pic! 5y
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abookishbutterfly @Geeklet Thanks! I think she did! 5y
abookishbutterfly @Nebklvr I will pass that along to her! Thanks! 5y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Happy Birthday 🎈🎂🎁🎊🎉 5y
RohitSawant Happy Birthday! 🎉🎂🎉 5y
TheSpineView Happy birthday to your daughter! 5y
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LibraryLovingMommy
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Could relate to author more since she's closer to my age than a lot of celeb memoir-writers. Not quite as much meat to this book as others I've read of late but still enjoyable. (Audio)