Soleil Moon Frye

Not enough detail to be that intriguing as an autobiography and not enough insight to be a parenting book. This book has a few somewhat interesting tales of Soleil's adventures being a famous person in LA in the 80's, but even those sound more like she's just telling you the bare bones story as an opportunity to name-drop. If you have famous friends and ex-boyfriends it might be difficult to not sound like you're name-dropping, but if the story has no point *but* to tell you the name of an ex-boyfriend, then what other conclusion can we draw other than you want us to know you dated so-and-so-mr-famous? Either she has just lived a life that was content enough to not be interesting as a book or she is bad at writing it so that it makes a good book. Here's the totality of the book, she grew up with a hippie mom, was on a tv show, dated a bunch of 80's stars, and now she's a hipSTER mom in LA with Demi and Ashton as her birthing coaches. Shallow book of a seemingly shallow person, despite her claims to the contrary. The one thing that is almost good about it is when she talks about her dad having Alzheimer's and a trip they took after he was already well into it, a couple sad pages about that.

Punky fans who grew up embodying the idea of radical self expression will find this book to be a little embarrassing for Soleil. It's like the lessons of having a radical hippie mom and being a character who was an outspoken non-conformist didn't make nearly the impression that the LA social scene did. She *thinks* they did, she talks about both as if they did, but what she says about her life and how she says it is evidence to the contrary.… (plus d'informations)