📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 Hello, Molly!
AUTHOR: Molly Shannon @theofficialsuperstar and Sean Wilsey
Publisher: Gallery Books @harpercollins
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐ + 🐢
Published: April 12, 2022
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The Review 📚 Hello, Molly!
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I was really excited to learn more about Molly Shannon’s life. Thank you to Netgalley and Ecco books for allowing me to read this ahead of publication.
💜 What I liked:
- This book starts with a band and kind of took me off guard. Molly really went through a lot in her life, and this book travels through everything. There are references to other celebrities including her time at Saturday Night Live.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- I was looking forward to a lot more nuggets of advice. However the book is very entertaining and will not leave you bored.
🚦 My face at the end: 🤗
💭 Reasons to Read:
- 1. A car accident
- 2. Catholic School
- 3. Saturday Night Live
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Molly Shannon has played so many of our most beloved characters. This book charts her life and experiences.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.
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📘 Summary 📚 Hello, Molly!
A candid, compulsively readable, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption by comedic genius Molly Shannon
At age four, Molly Shannon’s world was shattered when she lost her mother, baby sister, and cousin in a car accident with her father at the wheel. Held together by her tender and complicated relationship with her grieving father, Molly was raised in a permissive household where her gift for improvising and role-playing blossomed alongside the fearlessness that would lead her to become a celebrated actress.
From there, Molly ventured into the wider world of New York and Los Angeles show business, where she created her own opportunities and developed her daring and empathetic comedy. Filled with behind-the-scenes stories involving everyone from Whitney Houston to Adam Sandler to Monica Lewinsky, many told for the first time here, Hello, Molly! spans Molly’s time on Saturday Night Live–where she starred alongside Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Cheri Oteri, Tracy Morgan, and Jimmy Fallon, among many others. At the same time, it explores with humor and candor her struggle to come to terms with the legacy of her father, a man who both fostered her gifts and drive and was left with the impossible task of raising his kids alone after the loss of her mother.
Witty, winning, and told with tremendous energy and heart, Hello, Molly!, written with Sean Wilsey, sheds new and revelatory light on the life and work of one of our most talented and free-spirited performers.