Part memoir, part self-help tome, the TV powerhouse’s book is deeper and more complicated by the cheap ‘empowerment’ offered to women in the public eye
“I’ve gotten good at making stuff up,” Shonda Rhimes tells you early in her new book, Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun, and Be Your Own Person. “I could lie in the Olympics.” She’s right, of course, and her blooming cherry orchard of wildly successful television shows – “Hell, I don’t own Thursday nights for nothing,” as she points out – stands as proof behind her. It’s still a bit of a weird thing to admit though, so early in a memoir.
Well, revise that: Year of Yes isn’t a memoir, not exactly – it’s something more on the order of self-help, or of a collection of motivational talks, or else the appealing blog of a very intelligent person who has done extremely interesting things with her life about which any self-respecting person has to be somewhat curious. And before anyone lifts a picket sign about Hollywood fakery, let me point out that any intelligent person reading a book such as Rhimes’s can see between the lines. And she gives you plenty to work with.
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