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This poignant, intimate, and hilarious memoir explores Shonda’s life before her Year of Yes—from her nerdy, book-loving childhood to her devotion to creating television characters who reflected the world she saw around her. The book chronicles her life after her Year of Yes had begun—when Shonda forced herself out of the house and onto the stage; when she learned to explore, empower, applaud, and love her truest self. “Honest, raw, and revelatory” ( The Washington Post ), this wildly candid and compulsively readable book reveals how the mega talented Shonda Rhimes finally achieved badassery worthy of a Shondaland character. Rhimes opens up, and inspires, discussing her personal experiences as a sister, daughter, mother, friend and boss tempered with biting insights on societal expectations of women…[a] blend of biography and badassery.”. — Ebony.com. frankness of, say, Dr. Cristina Yang from Grey's Anatomy…Even if Rhimes's fame and career don't make her an everywoman, she writes with an everywomanly sensibility…her words brim with such life that by the end of the book, some readers may find themselves wanting to say yes to more things, too.”. —TVInsider.com. “Rhimes' familiar,conversational writing style makes the book a more accessible Lean In ,a self-help book and personal journal all rolled into one.”. —TVGuide.com. “A self-help book dressed in casual clothes, lessons for living a better life told through relatable personal essays from the woman who set out to, in the course of a year, make her own better… There’s an uncanny familiarity to the journey Rhimes goes on… Never do you feel preached at while reading Rhimes’s book.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"And this is a praiseworthy, life affirming, sister-centric, love filled, thank you Jesus!, Where-has-this-book been-all-of-my-life kind of read. Let me count the ways: 1) First off, unlike a lot of authors, she did not pre-seed Amazon with preselected reviewers hitting up all 5 stars and offering formulaic praise. 3) In addition to being funny, she's pitch perfect in her capacity to convey authenticity, vulnerability, and confidence all within the same paragraph. 5) Her year of living fearlessly by fully stepping into her life and saying YES inspires because it shows that even a Shonda Rhimes can suffer from the "Who Me?" Granted, Shonda needed to say yes to things like hanging out with the Obama's or being honored as a Human Rights Boss, but she brilliantly shows that despite the loftiness of her life, like many of us she too struggled with stepping into her well earned right to "stand in the sun" without fear or apology."
"I've recommended this book to my book club members (it's not even time for is to choose a new book) and to many others who would listen."
"Somewhere after the initial bunch of pages i dint quite frankly feel like going ahead with completing it...but i am not a quitter lol so i kept on and to my great pleasure the book just got more interesting to me after the initial 20% and i totally LOVED it to the last page."
"This titan of television tells us how one word completely changed her life and level of enjoyment and participation in her own life."
"This book seems to be the product of people telling Shonda Rhimes to write a book, and her agreeing to do it for the money."
"I really enjoyed this book, will take a example of the authors life to change my own."
"This is a great book, full of encouragement and words that ultimately give permission for everyone to love themselves."
"Without giving away the book, I laughed when I learned what was "the" thing that made her declare a "year of yes." So much so, that I ordered six copies to give to friends in need of putting themselves first."