Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham

I am very sad to report this:
5/10. I have been looking forward to this for ages. I read it in about two hours and I am very bummed that I didn't enjoy it as much as I was hoping to.
Maybe it's coming off of Anna Kendrick's Scrappy Little Nobody which was full of personal anecdotes, Lauren Graham feels more like a slightly more detailed resume. There is very little about her personally, and every anecdote is tied into something she has done as an actor or a writer.
That being said, Lauren Graham is notoriously closed off about her personal life but if you're not going to throw in some other details then why write a bio? Memoir? What's the right term for this? I should learn that before I become an editor. Either way. I'm super disappointed. I was expecting a lot more related to Gilmore girls. Anecdotes from the set (there is one chapter devoted to her thoughts on each season which is very short, and one chapter devoted to A Year In The Life which is equally short), or ever her life with Peter Krause. Negligible.
I'm bummed y'all.

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