Yearbook

Yearbook

2021 • 219 pages

Ratings70

Average rating4.2

15

This is an easy read and definitely one of the better celebrity memoirs. Still, it is a celebrity memoir. I find the genre disappointing, on the whole. “Born a Crime” is the exception.
What I liked was the voice. It was all Seth and didn't feel like an editor added their voice to it.
What I wish there was more of was the thoughtful reflection a memoir normally contains. This was a book filled with funny dinner-party stories of people I feel I know through their work. But what did the anti-Semitic elevator incident tell us about the world or about Seth? Not much and I wish I understood the importance of that moment for him.
All of that said–I'd still recommend this book. It is a beach read and we all need to inject more beach and more reading into our lives :)

October 25, 2021