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Deceptively Fluffy

Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes

January 20, 2020 by Sidewriter Leave a Comment

Deceptively fluffy. I mean that as a compliment, and it’s a phrase I would apply to Shonda Rhimes’ TV work too. It all goes down so easy, like candy, like ice cream, like delicious, bite-size, still-warm chocolate chip cookies; you think this is purely a pleasure read, a satisfying pep-talk in a fast, pleasing cadence, but nestled inside all that fluff, all that cookie dough, like the pill you press into a wad of peanut butter for your dog, is medicine, some profound truth that […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: shonda rhimes

Sidewriter's CBR12 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: shonda rhimes ·
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“Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be.”

Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

January 7, 2019 by narfna 2 Comments

A disclaimer of sorts: I have watched at least the first several seasons of every Shonda Rhimes show, but I have given up on all of them. They stress me the hell out. The drama always feels fresh at first, and then it’s like all the shows start to cannibalize themselves, more and more people die, no one ever stays together for good, etc. There’s no stability. That’s a primetime soap for you, and why I don’t watch them anymore, but I’ve always admired her […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, narfna, Self-help, shonda rhimes, year of yes

narfna's CBR11 Review No:3 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, narfna, Self-help, shonda rhimes, year of yes ·
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The Queen of All She Surveys

January 12, 2017 by Emperor Cupcake 1 Comment

At times, as I was reading Shonda Rhimes’ memoir/self-help book Year of Yes, I found myself getting very annoyed with her. Grey’s Anatomy isn’t even that good, I’d think. She so extra. It’s the Shonda Show 24/7 with this one. Doesn’t she know how conceited she sounds? I wanted her to be more humble, more quiet. When she mentioned how she owns Thursday nights for the umpteenth time, I wanted her to apologize for her success instead of brag about it. Which is kind of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Badassery, Grey's Anatomy, How to Get Away with Murder, scandal, shonda rhimes, Swagger, year of yes

Emperor Cupcake's CBR9 Review No:4 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: Badassery, Grey's Anatomy, How to Get Away with Murder, scandal, shonda rhimes, Swagger, year of yes ·
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Like texts from your best friend.

March 26, 2016 by Kiasha Leave a Comment

Shonda Rhimes’ sister told her that she never said yes to anything, and after some reflection, she realized it was true. So she made a resolution to spend a year saying yes to anything – everything – that came her way, and change her life into something that would make her happier. It’s challenging when her very first “yes” is to give a commencement speech at Dartmouth, and her second is to appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live (if you’re not aware, Rhimes is the creator of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: biography, shonda rhimes, year of yes

Kiasha's CBR8 Review No:9 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: biography, shonda rhimes, year of yes ·
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Always Dance it Out

January 31, 2016 by ASKReviews 2 Comments

I’ve seen every episode of Grey’s Anatomy. I’ve stuck with it through LVAD wire cuts, Dead Denny visions, the Seattle Grace / Mercy Death merger, plane crashes, bombs, active shooters, you name it. I’ve stuck with it (and almost always enjoyed it) even when she takes extreme dramatic license with the details of how catastrophic emergency response in Seattle would work. (Side note: Shonda, feel free to call me if you’d like to talk about how a mass fatality would be handled in this city […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, Personal Growth, shonda rhimes

ASKReviews's CBR8 Review No:8 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, Personal Growth, shonda rhimes ·
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Way better than that Jim Carrey movie

January 26, 2016 by badkittyuno 1 Comment

  I went out of town for a week on business and read like, six books and have not written any of them up yet. Apologies for the incoming flood! My “interactions” with Shonda have always been limited to Grey’s Anatomy, which I love dearly and have watched all the way through several times (I like to leave shows on when I’m cooking and cleaning, and pretty much rotate through Grey’s, Gilmore Girls and Scrubs). I’ve never gotten into her other shows (I’m a lazy TV […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: badkittyuno, shonda rhimes

badkittyuno's CBR8 Review No:14 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: badkittyuno, shonda rhimes ·
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