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Chargement... Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Storypar Jewel
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Jewel's memoir was so highly reviewed, with such adoration, and I've always enjoyed her music so much, that I wanted to give it a try. It's one of the few times "read by author" gave rise to positive expectations. I didn't last very long. As I expected from her songs, Jewel has a facility with words and poetry that I often genuinely enjoyed: "Maybe if I didn't let go, maybe if I used words like Hansel and Gretel used breadcrumbs, I could find my way out of the woods and avoid being eaten by the witch and the wolves. Maybe." And her narration was not at all bad. But there were moments from the beginning in which her choice of words instead rubbed me the wrong way, and it got worse as it went along. Finally, the tendency to pretentiousness, paired with a level of good luck that reminded me of Eat, Pray, Love (another pretentious book I couldn't finish), made me stop the book and return it to Audible. Don't mistake me: I understand the horrors among which she grew up, and I don't begrudge her any good fortune that came her way – I'm delighted. I hope she has millions of dollars and all the happiness she can deal with. But things start clicking into place for her, with a vengeance – people appear just when they're needed, money drops from the sky, chances and opportunities manifest as if by magic. Maybe it's just disbelief – none of those things have ever happened to me, so I find it hard to accept that someone else had such a miraculous turn of luck. Or maybe it's jealousy, since none of that has ever happened to me. Regardless, she became a bit smug about it all, and I had to give up. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: New York Times bestselling poet and multi-platinum singer-songwriter Jewel explores her unconventional upbringing and extraordinary life in an inspirational memoir that covers her childhood to fame, marriage, and motherhood. When Jewel's first album, Pieces of You, topped the charts in 1995, her emotional voice and vulnerable performance were groundbreaking. In the tradition of Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell (she has been compared to both), a singer-songwriter of her kind had not emerged in decades. Now, with over thirty million albums sold worldwide, Jewel tells the story of her life and the lessons learned from her experience and her music. Living on a homestead in Alaska, Jewel learned to yodel at age three and joined her parents' act, working in hotels, honkytonks, and biker bars. Behind a strong-willed and independent family life, with an emphasis on music and artistic talent, was also instability, abuse, and trauma. At age fifteen Jewel was accepted to the prestigious Interlochen School in Michigan, where she began writing her own songs as a means of expression. She was eighteen, homeless, and living out of her car in San Diego when a radio DJ aired a bootleg version of her song, and it was requested into the top-ten countdown, something unheard of for an unsigned artist. By age twenty-one, her debut album went multi-platinum. There is so much more to Jewel's story, one complicated by family and financial woes, by crippling fear and insecurity, by parents who forced a child to grow up far too quickly, and by the extraordinary circumstances in which she become a world-famous singer and songwriter. Here Jewel reflects on how she survived and how writing songs, poetry, and prose have saved her life many times over. She writes beautifully about the natural wonders of Alaska, about pain and childhood trauma, and about discovering her own identity years after the entire world had discovered the beauty of her songs. .Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I have fallen deeply in love with books being read by their authors this year, and this was no exception. Jewel was the artist, who with Hands, owned my artists, budding singer-in-training, soul for most of my teens and her early albums are still some of my favorite for all time. Especially the Hands, itself.
This book was glorious and gorgeous and gave an insider story to her life, which gave me a whole new way to look at everything about her music. The path of the singer singing the song and not just the song as it was reflected through my life translating those same messages....and it's definitely left me wanting to see her in concert, again, and wanting to listen to all of her albums in order as a companion to the text as well now, with new eyes, new ears, new hands, new understanding. ( )