Year of Yes Year of Yes

Year of Yes

How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

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Publisher Description

The instant New York Times bestseller from the creator of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away With Murder shares how saying YES changed her life. “As fun to read as Rhimes’s TV series are to watch” (Los Angeles Times).

She’s the creator and producer of some of the most groundbreaking and audacious shows on television today. Her iconic characters live boldly and speak their minds. So who would suspect that Shonda Rhimes is an introvert? That she hired a publicist so she could avoid public appearances? That she suffered panic attacks before media interviews?

With three children at home and three hit television shows, it was easy for Shonda to say she was simply too busy. But in truth, she was also afraid. And then, over Thanksgiving dinner, her sister muttered something that was both a wake up and a call to arms: You never say yes to anything. Shonda knew she had to embrace the challenge: for one year, she would say YES to everything that scared her.

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. Yes.

“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. Best of all, she “can help motivate even the most determined homebody to get out and try something new” (Chicago Tribune).

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2015
November 10
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Canada
SIZE
32
MB

Customer Reviews

clermp17 ,

Best book

I love the book so much

causemark ,

Honest, brilliant and insightful

This is one of the most insightful and entertaining books I've read in years. Shonda's honesty took me on a journey that helped me think about my own path to betterment.

Coffee68 ,

Fast read

Funny-smart- uplifting- not what I expected- good light read. Little bit inspirational too.

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