Anna Kendrick as a Nobody?

I have to say, since I really began to discover Anna Kendrick (after Pitch Perfect), she's become one of my favorite actresses.  She's funny, she's blunt, and she's not afraid to say what she means.  I also think she's very pretty and have styled myself off of her a few times.  Late in 2016, she published a memoir that she called Scrappy Little Nobody.  I bought it, and it's been on my shelf for a year while I moved, moved again, moved a third time, and dealt with some of the stuff going on in my life.  I'm regretting that now, because the book is funny.  I can connect with the small-ish town New England girl in Kendrick.

Sometimes reading a memoir like this is hard for me.  Kendrick is only seven years older than me, and yet, from the outside, she seems to have her shit together.  She's got two loving parents who went out of their way to help her achieve her dreams.  She's got an older brother she idolizes.  She's got a career and home--like I said.  All her shit together.  But in reading her memoir, I got to see the times when she didn't.  I mean, the girl moved to LA after high school without a car to follow her dream.  That meant a year of living paycheck to paycheck in an expensive city.  She's awkward and like to bake, and not so great with meeting people and making friends.

Not only did reading Scrappy Little Nobody make me laugh out loud several times, I was able to connect on many levels to a woman I really admire.  More than my family telling me that it's okay not to have my shit together, this book made me believe it.  I have a plan going forward,  (Expect some nice law book reviews coming this fall!) and sometimes that's all you need.

It's okay to be a nobody sometimes, but never stop fighting for what you want in life, okay readers?

EDIT:  I'm adding this bit later.  I always have trouble with how much detail to add when I'm talking about a book, whether it's fiction or not.  But here's the skinny:  I work in a hotel and I haven't seen another living human for four hours.  Then, a guest comes in and I mention that I've almost finished my book and like a nice person, he asks me about it.  I got all excited because I can really relate to Kendrick as a human being.  We started life in the same general region of the country (I was raised in New Hampshire, Maine's plucky "big" sister), and my thought process just follows the same pattern.  I never think I'm enough.  When something good happens, it's pure luck.  I have a hard time making friends, and so forth.  I think that's my favorite part of the whole thing--I can connect to and talk about the book because I am that girl too.

And while I love the Pitch Perfect movies, my favorite Anna Kendrick movie is actually Table 19.  Partially because I love the name Eloise.  Partially because of the bit with the cake.....