![]() McConaughey’s Texas upbringing is full of shenanigans that make for entertaining stories, but aside from that, McConaughey connects the narratives with the consistent theme of his drive for purpose and meaning in life. McConaughey, on the other hand, doesn’t just write a memoir–he writes an autobiography, from childhood up to the present. Essentially, all the books I’ve read cater to consumer curiosity about what it is to be a celebrity and how it all feels. ![]() Anna Kendrick’s Scrappy Little Nobody basically tells how she went from rags to riches and how she’s still star-struck by it all and most likely suffering from an ongoing imposter syndrome, while Lauren Graham’s Talking as Fast as I Can details her career on Gilmore Girls and her experience writing the book in her trailer on a set. ![]() The comedian memoirs, such as Tina Fey’s Bossypants and Amy Poehler’s Yes Please are full of self-deprecating jokes and anecdotes about growing up a woman. Greenlights is unlike any celebrity memoir I’ve ever read. ![]() Copy of Greenlights book next to Lil Bean Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. ![]() From the Academy Award®–winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction ![]()
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