Release Date: September 15 2015
Pages: 240
ISBN:9781101905579
Received from publisher for review
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Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling is a fun collection of essays about her life, mostly around her work in Hollywood with The Office and The Mindy Project.
She writes about how she started working at the famous series The Office as both an actor and writer and of course about some in's and outs of The Mindy Project One of the most fun parts of the book is when she is invited to a state dinner at The White House, where she even meets The Obama's and about when she sadly wasn't nominated for an Emmy Award.She also describes vividly how she created and worked out the idea for The Mindy Project and how, at firsthand, it seemed her idea for the show got not the interest of the network that she hoped on, but with hard work, how it was suddenly canceled by FOX but landed a new spot at HULU.
She writes about her anxieties because she looks quite different and more ''curved'' than is the standard in Hollywood, where everyone is thin and blonde, it seems that almost everyone in Hollywood uses hair extensions, even the people you don't expect it from. She gives tongue-in-cheek advice for her readers for absolute on-camera-beauty:“Your natural hair color may be appropriate for your skin tone, but this isn’t the land of appropriate–this is Hollywood, baby. Out here, a dark-skinned woman’s traditional hair color is honey blonde.”
With pictures, she gives an illustrated inside look in an average day in her life, which are quite long working days from 5:00 am till 12:30 a.m! I really liked that she chose to use pictures in the book, altough they where small and black and white, they truly added to the book and her writing.
All of her experiences and hilarious anecdotes of her life go from on topic to another, but somehow she creates a nice cohesion between all of them. Mindy Kaling has a very funny style of writing full of humor. You can just imagine everything she writes about in your head. Her observations about the mostly crazy happenings and lifestyle of the showbiz world in Hollywood are at many points hilarious but most of all interesting and entertaining to read, which is why I recommend reading it. (AndI am pretty sure I will check out Mindy's first book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? too because this one left me craving for more!)
