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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).
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).
I have loved Anna Kendrick as an actress for a long while. When I started watching her interviews on talk shows I wanted her to be my friend and thought that she might possibility be my spirit animal. Her personality drew me in and I wanted to know more about her the more than she expressed her opinions and made inappropriate jokes.
I have recently started getting into biographies and memoirs. When I remembered that she had written a book, I knew I had to read it. If you love Anna Kendrick's personality then you are bound to love her more once you read Scrappy Little Nobody! This book is pure, undiluted Anna. She is hilarious and in your face about her thoughts and opinions on a variety of topics. Not only that but she talks about her path to stardom and her life growing up. I loved getting to hear her voice because she read it the way she wanted it to be heard.
I have recently started getting into biographies and memoirs. When I remembered that she had written a book, I knew I had to read it. If you love Anna Kendrick's personality then you are bound to love her more once you read Scrappy Little Nobody! This book is pure, undiluted Anna. She is hilarious and in your face about her thoughts and opinions on a variety of topics. Not only that but she talks about her path to stardom and her life growing up. I loved getting to hear her voice because she read it the way she wanted it to be heard.
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