Talking As Fast As I Can by Lauren Graham

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Title: Talking As Fast As I Can
Author: Lauren Graham
Date Released: November 29th, 2016
You can but it here: Amazon
Book Synopsis: In Talking as Fast as I Can, Lauren Graham hits pause for a moment and looks back on her life, sharing laugh-out-loud stories about growing up, starting out as an actress, and, years later, sitting in her trailer on the Parenthood set and asking herself, “Did you, um, make it?” She opens up about the challenges of being single in Hollywood (“Strangers were worried about me; that’s how long I was single!”), the time she was asked to audition her butt for a role, and her experience being a judge on Project Runway (“It’s like I had a fashion-induced blackout”).

In “What It Was Like, Part One,” Graham sits down for an epic Gilmore Girls marathon and reflects on being cast as the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore. The essay “What It Was Like, Part Two” reveals how it felt to pick up the role again nine years later, and what doing so has meant to her.

Some more things you will learn about Lauren: She once tried to go vegan just to bond with Ellen DeGeneres, she’s aware that meeting guys at awards shows has its pitfalls (“If you’re meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you’ve already set the bar too high”), and she’s a card-carrying REI shopper (“My bungee cords now earn points!”).

Including photos and excerpts from the diary Graham kept during the filming of the recent Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, this book is like a cozy night in, catching up with your best friend, laughing and swapping stories, and—of course—talking as fast as you can.

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This is going to be a short review of her book.

First off, I absolutely love Lauren Graham. She is one of my favorite actresses. I started watching Gilmore Girls when it first aired in 2000. Since then I have probably seen each episode more than 10 times (Thank you Netflix). After I finished Gilmore Girls I decided to binge watch Parenthood on Netflix. (only because Lauren Graham was in it) For me Lauren Graham's character Sarah resembled Lorelei Gilmore which is one of the reasons I loved it the show. When I saw that Netflix was bringing it back for a four part TV movie I couldn't wait. Sadly that weekend after Thanksgiving I had a really bad stomach ache, but on the bright side I had all weekend to watch the Gilmore Girls: A Year in The Life. 

When I saw Lauren Graham was writing a book about her life, my thoughts were it was only gonna be about her career on Gilmore Girls and Parenthood. I was wrong. It wasn't that I didn't like the book, I did. I just expected again it not to be about her early personal life and career. I wish she would have talked about her experience on Parenthood more than she did, as well as more experiences she had on the set of Gilmore Girls.

I really enjoyed how she put her diary entries from the set of Gilmore Girls A Year in the Life. It felt like you experienced what Lauren experienced while being on the set. I also loved seeing her pictures with her cast mates. It goes to show that when you play a family on a TV show you become a family in real life as well.