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Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up
By Naya Rivera
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Funny and deeply personal, Sorry Not Sorry recounts Glee star Naya Rivera's successes and missteps, urging young women to pursue their dreams and to refuse to let past mistakes define them.
Navigating through youth and young adulthood isn't easy, and in Sorry Not Sorry, Naya Rivera shows us that we're not alone in the highs, lows, and in-betweens. Whether it's with love and dating, career and ambition, friends, or gossip, Naya inspires us to follow our own destiny and step over--or plod through--all the crap along the way. After her rise and fall from early childhood stardom, barely eking her way through high school, a brief stint as a Hooters waitress, going through thick and thin with her mom/manager, and resurrecting her acting career as Santana Lopez on Glee, Naya emerged from these experiences with some key life lessons:
Sorry:
- All those times I scrawled "I HATE MY MOM" in my journal. So many moms and teenage daughters don't get along--we just have to realize it's nothing personal on either side.
- At-home highlights and DIY hair extensions. Some things are best left to the experts, and hair dye is one of them.
- Falling in love with the idea of a person, instead of the actual person.
Not Sorry:
- That I don't always get along with everyone. Having people not like you is a risk you have to take to be real, and I'll take that over being fake any day.
- Laughing at the gossip instead of getting upset by it.
- Getting my financial disasters out of the way early--before I was married or had a family--so that the only credit score that I wrecked was my own.
Even with a successful career and a family that she loves more than anything else, Naya says, "There's still a thirteen-year-old girl inside of me making detailed lists of how I can improve, who's never sure of my own self-worth." Sorry Not Sorry is for that thirteen-year-old in all of us.
Navigating through youth and young adulthood isn't easy, and in Sorry Not Sorry, Naya Rivera shows us that we're not alone in the highs, lows, and in-betweens. Whether it's with love and dating, career and ambition, friends, or gossip, Naya inspires us to follow our own destiny and step over--or plod through--all the crap along the way. After her rise and fall from early childhood stardom, barely eking her way through high school, a brief stint as a Hooters waitress, going through thick and thin with her mom/manager, and resurrecting her acting career as Santana Lopez on Glee, Naya emerged from these experiences with some key life lessons:
Sorry:
- All those times I scrawled "I HATE MY MOM" in my journal. So many moms and teenage daughters don't get along--we just have to realize it's nothing personal on either side.
- At-home highlights and DIY hair extensions. Some things are best left to the experts, and hair dye is one of them.
- Falling in love with the idea of a person, instead of the actual person.
Not Sorry:
- That I don't always get along with everyone. Having people not like you is a risk you have to take to be real, and I'll take that over being fake any day.
- Laughing at the gossip instead of getting upset by it.
- Getting my financial disasters out of the way early--before I was married or had a family--so that the only credit score that I wrecked was my own.
Even with a successful career and a family that she loves more than anything else, Naya says, "There's still a thirteen-year-old girl inside of me making detailed lists of how I can improve, who's never sure of my own self-worth." Sorry Not Sorry is for that thirteen-year-old in all of us.
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LanguageEnglish
Publisher Penguin Group
Release dateSep 13, 2016
ISBN9780399184994
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Reviews for Sorry Not Sorry
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I purchased this book on Tuesday as part of my women-authored-memoir spree. So far I’ve read Mara Wilson’s and Abby Wambach’s; I have two book club books to read before I can dive into Diane Guerrero’s book. As evidenced by the photo I’ve included, this book was perfect as the fall equivalent of a good beach read – enjoy it with a cup of cocoa or tea, and be ready to go through it in one sitting.
Ms. Rivera is best known to most of us as Santana from Glee, but this is not a Glee memoir (and that is a good thing). The ten chapters each focus on different phases or components of her life, whether her early days acting as a preschooler, her financial troubles as a young woman, or her love life. Each chapter wraps up with a few bullet points under the ‘sorry’ banner, and a few under ‘not sorry.’
Some phrases or attitudes bummed me out (while at the end of her chapter on her anorexia she acknowledges therapy and/or medication might be helpful for some, earlier in the chapter she makes it seem as though anorexia is generally something one can get one’s self out of), but overall she’s an interesting storyteller who has some good advice to share with the world. I mostly enjoyed her writing, and some of the throw-away sentences are laugh-out-loud funny.
There are some stories in here that some people might consider ‘gossipy,’ but this is not an industry tell-all. This is someone who has led both an interesting and at times very relatable life telling her story. It’s definitely at least worth picking up from the library. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I was actually thrilled by this book. I only know of Rivera by her role in Glee and honestly, I didn't watch Glee that much. I wasn't expecting a huge amount from a celebrity memoir but her honesty and thoughtfulness regarding difficult topics like money, race, and abortion blew me away. There was just enough of the "tell-all" vibe to satisfy the gossipy part of me but the real meat of her writing was clear-headed and captivating, incredibly insightful and felt true to her person. This book was great.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Please upload her audiobooks <3 she's been a great role model to me and have you even heard her voice? God, it's just surreal, like she's actually talking to you about her life and it's seriously amazing if you guys are able to do it.. thanks :)
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I just want to say that all these 1 and 2 star reviews are from Big Sean fans or Rachel lovers (I joke). Now, on to my VERY BIAS review. I say bias because I currently have a huge crush on Naya (thanks Step Up)
I read her bio in 2 days. Front to back. Everything. Every little thing. That’s rare because I hate sappy intros, dedications and whatever. Honestly, I would have read it one day if I stayed up a bit and read when I got home from work. Also, yes you read that correctly.... I read this while at work. This book came out in 2016 so I’m a little late to the game. Regardless, it was a good read.
Now, Naya didn’t flat out say this but I felt that her parents (mostly her dad) was toxic and boy so I relate to those with toxic parents. Her father seems very unlikeable, charging your 18 year old kid rent? No bueno. Also her mother did some guilt tripping to get her to audition for shows. I relate on the guilt tripping. Also, I related to her being biracial and always being checked off as “other”. I related to that 150%. Being too Hispanic for the black clique at school and too black for the Hispanic clique. Honey, I felt it to my core.
At the end of this book I was left with 4 things. Naya is cool as heck, I should really finish Glee (on season 1 episode 6... I know I’m late), Big Sean is a d-bag, and Lea Michele isn’t as nice as she seems. When this book came out everyone gave Naya a hard time, they were doubting what she was saying about Lea was true, and now 4 years later it turned out to be nothing but the truth (google Lea Michele tweets).
I would really like a part 2 because this book came out when she was married and now she’s divorced.
This would have got 5 stars from me EASY if the structure was different. A lot of the timelines jump around and I wasn’t a fan of that. I also wish she would have gone a bit more in depth about her home life because I feel like she left some things out.
Naya rocks.