Off with My Head: The Definitive Basic B*tch Handbook to Surviving Rock Bottom
Stassi Schroeder
The year 2020 was going to be the best year of Stassi’s life. Besides getting engaged and feeling like she was on top of the world career-wise, she bought her first house and was planning her dream Italian wedding. The future showed so much freaking promise—until it all went to hell. more
284 pages, Kindle Edition
First published Gallery Books
3.58
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Stassi Schroeder
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Stassi Schroeder is one of the stars of the hit Bravo TV series Vanderpump Rules. Originally from New Orleans, she now lives in Los Angeles, where she films and hosts her popular podcast Straight Up with Stassi.(source: Amazon)
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I appreciated getting to hear more insight into the events of 2020 and beyond from Stassi but felt overall this read like most of my own drafts of writing for class where I was trying to hit a page/word count and would realize I had talked about the same thing in only slightly different sentence arrangements to make that possible. I want more variety, I want more references. But still, the details about her starting to date Beau, you know those made it worth it to me personally. more
How to survive rock bottom. Be rich, famous, and patient enough so that you don’t have to own up to or actually learn anything from your mistakes. Another dumpster fire like her last book, read my review here: https://www. goodreads. com/review/show. more
I enjoyed her first book and had no real expectations for this one since I phased out of VP rules when they brought new people on and didn't keep up with anyone on social media. I had heard Stassi was "cancelled" and honestly feel like cancel culture sucks. It does the opposite of what the woke folks think it will do. but I digress. I loved hearing her side of the story. more
Ugh. She is the absolute worst. How to survive getting ‘cancelled’. Be white, wealthy, and connected and just wait for people to forget. 🙄. more
Stassi Schroeder’s follow up to her NYT best seller Next Level Basic covers her complete cancellation - from her reality series on Bravo, her podcast, book tour and animated series - all in one fell swoop. Schroeder starts with an explanation and an apology, along with how she moved forward from her multiple racist remarks and complete ignorance regarding BLM and the #metoo movement (part of which was done by hiring a diversity coach. )The rest of the book focuses on holding herself accountable and the ways her life changed by that cancellation - at the start of the pandemic and the beginning of her pregnancy. She covers meeting Beau, her husband, and of her difficult relationship with her mother. Though OWMH is definitely not going to get Stassi another reality gig, it'll probably bring more haters out of the woodwork. more
After an irritating experience with Next Level Basic: The Definitive Basic Bitch Handbook, I'm happy to say Bossy Stassi has redeemed herself a bit. OWMH could have included more details people actually care about, but had enough to keep me entertained for a few hours and made me like her more as a person. more
90% of this book is silly AFIt’s extended multi cosmo articlesDoes cosmopolitan still make a magazine. But where it’s interesting is in its Soviet style indoctrination. You see Stasi got cancelled for going mean girl on someone who had slept with a friend’s beau. Big mistake was the subject of her annoyance was black. Major cancellation So Stasi began her r education camp time “Faith felt it was about race because there is an actual serious problem between the Black community and the police in America. more
Wow this book was bad. I’m a sucker for reality tv star’s books because I’m always hoping for some gossip about the show or the inside scoop. This was just Stassi rambling. The number of excuses she gave measured against the number of times she claimed she was learning was wild. The premise of the book - how to survive rock bottom - was sooooo loose, I don’t know why she didn’t just write a tell all of her side of the story instead of trying to mask it under this premise. more
About what I expected. First book was better. . more
If you thought I would give my big sis Stassi anything less than 5 stars you thought WRONG. more
3. 75⭐️ this book is what it is. is it the greatest thing i’ve ever read. obviously not. but stassi was one of my fav VDP Rules cast members and it was interesting hearing about her cancelling. more
4. 5 stars. I was both excited and nervous going into this book, because I do love Stassi, and I knew depending on the direction she went with this book, it could give me a different view of her. After the incident that came to light that resulted in her being fired from Vanderpump Rules and losing pretty much every other professional piece of her life (podcast, agents, upcoming projects), and becoming the newest victim of "cancel culture," there was potential for her to strike the wrong tone. I should have known better, though, because I have continued following her since that very public cancellation. more
Next Level Bad. I should have read my review on her first book and realized that Stassi is just not much of a writer. I am actually shocked that people would actually go see her on a book tour. This book was just one long apology that wasn’t needed. Cancel Culture is just an 🙄 to me. more
I appreciated Stassi on Vanderpump Rules and was saddened to see her go. After reading this book in it's entirety, I respect Bravo's decision. She has such a surface level understanding of just how irresponsible and racially insensitive she's been. I was skeptical of this book in the first place as I don't feel it's the best move to release a book profitting off of finally being called out for being wreckless, but I didn't think it would get this bad. Her entire understanding of what happened to get her fired is based on "It was a dumb joke and people overreacted to me- I'm the real victim here. more
I didn’t have high expectations for this book, but I was hoping it would be funny like her podcast. Instead, it was super defensive about the events of 2020 and her fall from grace. I know that was the point of the book, but it went over the top. I bought the audible version, and it took me almost a month to finish it because I kept picking other audible books over it. . more
Remember when you were in college and you had to hit a word count so you just kept rewriting the same ideas in different ways over and over again. That was this book. Although repeatedly saying she “didn’t think she was a victim” and she “didn’t think she had it worse in COVID than anyone else”, she sure does spend most of this book trying to make you think that on your own . more
Oof. I liked hearing from her about the learning she has done since the Canceling, but this book is so ridiculously self-indulgent. And I’m saying that after having decent feedback for her first self-indulgent book. It’s a huge miss for me and I skimmed the last 5 chapters because I couldn’t do it anymore. . more
I don’t often get too excited about memoirs, but every once in a while one grabs my attention & this was one of them. . more
I love Stassi but this felt like a surface level class paper. Couldn’t wait for it be over. 🫠. more
I mean obviously this wasn’t Pulitzer caliber but what can I say I love stassi and will do anything to learn more insight into vanderpump rules lolz. more
I had to give it 5 stars. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was so much better than her first book, and I enjoyed that one too. Whether you love Stassi or you hate her, you can't deny her growth. I hate when I see comments about how the VPR cast shouldn't be parents, yada, yada. more
I adore Stassi. Her unapologetic personality speaks to me on another level, and I feel like she’s come so far since her Vanderpump days, but there are definitely some things reality stars should keep to themselves. Hearing her talk about Beau gave me the ick. This man really wanted to hang the nudes (plural, as in multiple) he painted of his exes in the new house he was sharing with his pregnant wife-to-be. I strive to have the blind confidence it took to share that information with the public. more
What can I say. I love Stassi Schroeder. Even when she's bad, she's great- because we all make mistakes, we all deserve a path for growth. I'm thrilled she decided to open up about being cancelled for a second time. But this time around, I think she really made big developments in her life. more
3. 5 - ish starsEnjoyed overall. A bit repetitive, and some chapters felt like unnecessary filler (ie the chapters on social media and crying). Stassi does a great job narrating, but my main issue was the constant use of abbreviations (especially “AF”) and Kardashian/ Royal family references (I think the audio made this even more annoying lol). more
I say “Good for you. ” I kinda thought it was ridiculous and hypocritical when Stassi was cancel and treated like she was for basically doing what she had been paid to do on national television for years. I felt bad for her that she had put herself out there for people’s entertainment and now everyone acted like they had never said or did anything that they regretted and their entertainment was now crushing her. She messed up, on a large scale, but the world was in such a hypersensitive place at the time. Anyway, I like that she is who she is and encourages you to be who you are - truly, not just because it’s what you think people want you to be. more
No rating because memoir, BUT AMAZING BOOK. There was so much I didn’t know about Stassis life which reading this book helped shed some light to the situations. I didn’t read her first book, so I can’t compare but I really did appreciate this book to help apologize to her fans and explain her actions. A few things I didn’t love were her little summaries at the end of each chapter, she did such a great job explaining everything throughout the book that I felt it wasn’t needed and tended to skip those parts and I feel like the ending could of been different. With or without this book I am obsessed with stalking her, Beau and Hartford on Instagram . more
Overall, this was a good read. I love any and everything Bravo related so I was very excited to read this but no lie, it was very boring at parts. I loved reading about Stassi overcome her cancellation, her wedding, and motherhood. But she easily could’ve taken out a few chapters that were pointless to the book. 3. more
Such a easy read. Also easier a read when you’ve watched her for the past decade and can literally hear her voice in the back of your head while reading every word. I enjoyed this light read and loved how she put everything. Give this girl a break btw. She’s trying. more
same god awful formatting as the original book and worse because it’s even less relatable. just write a memoir, not a “self help guide”. also i think she may have used the terms “freakin’” and “AF” even more than the first book. . more