Title: My Squirrel Days
Author: Ellie Kemper
Pages: 256
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Release Date: 9th October 2018
Blurb from Goodreads:
Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious and uplifting collection of essays
about one pale woman's journey from Midwestern naïf to Hollywood
semi-celebrity to outrageously reasonable New Yorker.
There comes a time in every sitcom actress's life when she is faced
with the prospect of writing a book. When Ellie Kemper's number
was up, she was ready. Contagiously cheerful, predictably wholesome,
and mostly inspiring except for one essay about her husband's feet, My
Squirrel Days is a funny, free-wheeling tour of Ellie's life-from growing up in suburban St. Louis with a vivid imagination and
a crush on David Letterman to moving to Los Angeles and accidentally
falling on Doris Kearns Goodwin.
But those are not the only famous names dropped in this synopsis. Ellie
will also share stories of inadvertently insulting Ricky Gervais at the
Emmy Awards, telling Tina Fey that she has "great hair-really strong and thick," and offering a maxi pad to Steve Carell. She
will take you back to her childhood as a nature lover determined to
commune with squirrels, to her college career as a benchwarming field
hockey player with no assigned position, and to her young professional
days writing radio commercials for McDonald's but never getting paid.
Ellie will guide you along her journey through adulthood, from unorganized
bride to impatient wife to anxious mother who-as recently observed by a sassy hairstylist-"dresses like a mom." Well, sassy
hairstylist, Ellie Kemper is a mom. And she has been dressing like it since
she was four.
Ellie has written for GQ, Esquire, The New York Times, McSweeney's and The
Onion. Her voice is the perfect antidote to the chaos of modern life. In short,
she will tell you nothing you need to know about making it in show business,
and everything you need to know about discreetly changing a diaper at a Cibo
Express.
My Review:
*I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Thanks to Hodder & Stoughton and NetGalley*
Actress and comedian Ellie Kemper has written a collection of essays.
In them she tells of her encounters with celebrities, her childhood
and her career.
I'm a fan of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, so when I saw that Ellie
Kemper had a book coming out I was excited to read it.
I enjoyed finding out about Ellie's past and how she got into acting.
The writing style wasn't one of my favourites but it was engaging, if
a little over the top at times.
It wasn't exactly what I expected - I guess I thought it would be
more chronological.
Overall this was an enjoyable read.
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