Scrappy Little Nobody

Scrappy Little Nobody

Hardback
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

An “honest, effortlessly funny, and alternatively relatable” (Harper’s Bazaar) collection of autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air, Pitch Perfect, and Trolls, “Scrappy Little Nobody lets readers feel like they have spent an afternoon chatting with their closest friend” (Booklist).

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).

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Format
Hardback
Pages
304
Price
23.68 €

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Anna Kendrick beschreibt in ihrem Buch den Weg, den sie gegangen ist, bis sie sich als Schauspielerin etablieren konnte. Besonders überrascht hat mich an dem Buch, wie viel sie von ihren persönlichen Ängsten und Lebensumständen berichtet und dass es nicht immer "Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen" war. Das hat sie für mich aber auch nochmal sympathischer gemacht, da es so eben realer und wirklicher wurde. Ich mag ihren Schreibstil total, weil sie eine gute Mischung zwischen Selbstironie und Ernsthaftigkeit findet. Sofern man sich ein Interview von ihr angesehen hat, kann man ihre Art in ihrem Schreibstil wiederfinden. Unzensiert spricht sie über die persönlichsten Erlebnisse und verbindet sie mit sämtlichen Lebensweisheiten. Insgesamt lässt sich das Buch gut lesen und hat einen hohen Unterhaltungsfaktor! Vor allem die letzten Seiten haben mich sehr berührt, sodass ich fast geweint hätte, weil sie meiner Meinung nach einfach wahr sind.

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I didn't plan to read this book, but one of my reading challenges said to read a book by an author that shares my first or last name and here we go. For what it is, I thought this was entertaining and I enjoyed listening to it. It's not going to change my life, but I also didn't expect that.

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I enjoyed listening to this audiobook a lot, Anna sounds like a fun and very grounded person and it was fun to listen.

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