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A review by shalini_gunnasan
This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe
5.0
This girl is a born entertainer. I found her funny and quite insightful about her own strengths and failings. I don't usually read, hell, I never read celebrity memoirs. I just don't care enough about Hollywood to do that - I'm the kind who goes to movies, enjoys them, gives the appropriate rating on IMDB, and then maybe seeks more of the same type of story or director or actor based on what I enjoyed. That's it. All the off-screen drama and fangirling and gossip-mongering? That's for other people.
Gabourey is, by her own admission, not the usual kind of player. And she isn't. For someone who looked like her to make it in that world, she is definitely something else. That's why I picked up her book, to see what she had to say. There is a lot of iron in this girl. There are much of her non-Hollywood struggles that are relatable to a significant chunk of the human population, never mind Americans.
I like the lenses through which she sees the world. She is not here to save anyone, she is not here to be your personal savior, she's just telling you, in her words, that this is what happened to the point where she is now. Her story isn't done yet, not by a long shot, and I'll bet you she'll have another nice little book all ready by the time she hits eighty. And it'll probably be a great story.
Gabourey is, by her own admission, not the usual kind of player. And she isn't. For someone who looked like her to make it in that world, she is definitely something else. That's why I picked up her book, to see what she had to say. There is a lot of iron in this girl. There are much of her non-Hollywood struggles that are relatable to a significant chunk of the human population, never mind Americans.
I like the lenses through which she sees the world. She is not here to save anyone, she is not here to be your personal savior, she's just telling you, in her words, that this is what happened to the point where she is now. Her story isn't done yet, not by a long shot, and I'll bet you she'll have another nice little book all ready by the time she hits eighty. And it'll probably be a great story.