Scrappy Little Nobody

Book: Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick

Genre: memoir, celebrity autobiography

Rating: ten out of ten prickly little cacti 🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵

I bought this book on impulse after three very large glasses of wine at the airport and consequently read most of it while heavily buzzed on the plane and fighting off the sleepies. That being said…

This. Book. Kicks. Ass.

I will admit my bias: I heavily relate to her curmudgeonly attitude and grumpy but begrudgingly loving approach to life. Scrappy Little Nobody reads exactly like I imagine a book of my own memoirs would read (except mine would be called Angry Little Planet and likely have a more flagrant use of the f word), thus I am admittedly preferential. Bear in mind, however, that I am under no misconceptions about the level of literature this book amounts to. It just comes to the fact that I am nosy. Especially when it comes to celebrities. I spend way too much of my time watching the Graham Norton Show on YouTube, soaking up the dirty little behind the scene secrets and laughing alongside the famous people I have convinced myself are my friends. So while I realize they are very rarely considered novels of great impact, I love a celebrity tell-all book. It’s like candy, you know it’s not wonderful for you, but it makes you happy and you just want to eat more of it.

At the risk of sounding cliché, this book is quite literally laugh out loud funny. Her humor is wry, honest, and doesn’t falter in the face of controversy, but she wields it without malice. Often times with books like these, celebrities get so caught up in telling the truth they forget that they are shredding actual humans, which tends to drive me, as a reader, away. Kendrick focuses on hilariously relatable expressions of her own experiences, with both fame and life in general, while still contributing the juicy details that draw in big ole nosy drama queens like me (like some Orlando Bloom kissing deets).

The ending was a little strange, a sort of rambling attempt to talk about personal growth, but ignoring this ridiculously small hitch I have absolutely no criticisms for the book. I genuinely loved her writing style (her ghostwriter’s writing style?) and reading it made me feel happy and funny and like I could totally kick life’s butt.

I will leave you with a quotation from the book, it’s more for me than it is for you, but I like it, so there.

“Scrupulous people don’t enjoy causing trouble, but they can be defiant as hell.”

To purchase the book, here is the link on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Scrappy-Little-Nobody-Anna-Kendrick/dp/150111722X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504052854&sr=8-1&keywords=scrappy+little+nobody