By Megan Thomas
A part of my monthly reading goals is to listen to a memoir narrated by its author, and I was very curious about Anna Kendrick’s memoir. I’ll admit that other than Twilight memes and Pitch Perfect, I didn’t even realise how much she had done before listening, let alone that she’d been on Broadway, which is always a pleasant surprise.
I think what I enjoyed most was the simplicity and candidness of the collection – there’s no point where Kendrick is trying to suggest her life has been particularly grueling. But at the same time, she experienced, like so many people, very relatable self-confidence and body-image issues growing up and I think it’s valuable for people on her platform to do this. Moreover, it’s a story of rags to riches that doesn’t necessarily involve a full-blown fall from grace; not everybody has to go through the wringer in order to have struggled and talk about it.
She’s funny, self-deprecating and clever, three of my favourite qualities in a person. This is possibly better categorised as a series of personal essays than a traditional memoir, compartmentalised by themes like childhood, her stage career, her romantic life, her film career and overall, her rise to fame from a scrappy little nobody.
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