My Squirrel Days

By: Ellie Kemper

Narrated by: Ellie Kemper

Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and host of The Great American Baking ShowEllie Kemper delivers a hilarious, refreshing, and inspiring collection of essays “teeming with energy and full of laugh-out-loud moments” (Associated Press).

“A pleasure. Ellie Kemper is the kind of stable, intelligent, funny, healthy woman that usually only exists in yogurt commercials. But she’s real and she’s all ours!” —Tina Fey

“Ellie is a hilarious and talented writer, although we’ll never know how much of this book the squirrel wrote.” —Mindy Kaling

Meet Ellie, the best-intentioned redhead next door. You’ll laugh right alongside her as she shares tales of her childhood in St. Louis, whether directing and also starring in her family holiday pageant, washing her dad’s car with a Brillo pad, failing to become friends with a plump squirrel in her backyard, eating her feelings while watching PG-13 movies, or becoming a “sports monster” who ends up warming the bench of her Division 1 field hockey team in college.

You’ll learn how she found her comedic calling in the world of improv, became a wife, mother and New Yorker, and landed the role of a bridesmaid (while simultaneously being a bridesmaid) in Bridesmaids. You’ll get to know and love the comic, upbeat, perpetually polite actress playing Erin Hannon on The Office, and the exuberant, pink-pants-wearing star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

If you’ve ever been curious about what happens behind the scenes of your favorite shows, what it really takes to be a soul cycle “warrior,” how to recover if you accidentally fall on Doris Kearns Goodwin or tell Tina Fey on meeting her for the first time that she has “great hair—really strong and thick,” this is your chance to find out. But it’s also a laugh-out-loud primer on how to keep a positive outlook in a world gone mad and how not to give up on your dreams. Ellie “dives fully into each role—as actor, comedian, writer, and also wife and new mom—with an electric dedication, by which one learns to reframe the picture, and if not exactly become a glass-half-full sort of person, at least become able to appreciate them” (Vogue.com).

fun and entertaining time!

It is always great to heat the author reading their own material. Even better when it is someone as funny and entertaining as Ms. Kemper!

Ellie Kemper's true self

Struggled to finish, but my personal fandom for Ellie carried me through. The book drags, until she acknowledges Bridesmaids. I'm glad the topic came up when it did, otherwise I would have stopped.

funny

easy listen, didnt need to follow closely. not alot of substance but ellie kuemper makes everything funny.

Enjoyable

I was hoping there'd be more about Kimmy Schmidt but fortunately real life Ellie is Kimmy so that was nice.

Helped me through the sudden death of my dad

This review is more of a “thank you” to Ms Kemper. I had lost my dad suddenly in May of 2018. Nights were longer, days were darker, and life was generally sadder. I needed SOMETHING to lift my spirits. And that “something” needed to be personal and non-intruding.

I’ve always loved Ellie’s characters. Kimmy Schmidt is, obviously, more uplifting than most other characters by nature of the story. To read the back story as well as Ms. Kemper’s autobiography was something that brought me out of my own sadness at the time it was released. The audible version , read by Ms Kemper, is just plain perfect.

I laughed ugly, as I believe the author intended. I just wish it was longer. I hope Ms Kemper writes another book soon as we could all use some time away from the reality of the life we now live.

My best review is simple: Thank you Ellie Kemper.