Book 68 - So. Many. Waterworks.

Title: This Will Only Hurt a Little

Author: Busy Philipps

Genre: autobio memoir thing

I have to say - this book surprised me.

I don't know what I was expecting, but definitely not a narrator with such a clear, hilarious, raw, and overall optimistic voice. Philipps has that talent of writing the way she speaks, and this style makes the reader feel like a close friend just hang' out, trading stories.

In addition to getting an inside look at the lives of actors who did it, who made it, I will admit that one of the main reasons I read books like this, books by celebrities, is for the shameless namedropping - and Philipps does not disappoint. We hear about her friends, which have Colin Hanks and Heath Ledger (may he rest in peace) among their ranks, and also get a juicy look at some famous people who are downright asshats - looking at you, James Franco.

Busy isn't afraid to call it as it is. "The heads of a third-rate cable network thought I was too fat to play a waiter in a show about struggling comedic actors trying to make it in Hollywood," she says (about Party Down, which I fucking love and am sad that she got passed over for, but also Lizzy Caplan was super good). "This is the same network that HIRED an executive AFTER another network had fired him for PUBLICLY ASSAULTING his girlfriend! Hollywood," she continues, "is the fucking most disgusting, most vile place on earth." And yet, she loves acting above anything else, so she perseveres. GET IT GIRL!

Also, she cries a lot - like, a lot - and I really relate to that.

Rating: 😭😭😭/5