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 enlarge | Author: Sheila Weller
Publisher: Atria
Category: Book
List Price: $27.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  108 reviews
Sales Rank: 1524
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 592
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 6.2 x 2
ISBN: 0743491475
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.421640922
EAN: 9780743491471
ASIN: 0743491475
Publication Date: April 8, 2008
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Condition: Brand New! May have ink mark on book edge and/or very light shelf wear
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 Their Lives Have Been a Tapestry September 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As someone who was introduced to Joni Mitchell by her older sister, (and discovered Carole King and Carly Simon on her own), I can't begin to express how delighted I was to discover this book. It brought back so many memories and rekindled the strong identification I felt back then. I was reminded how in those days I was hungry for any personal detail about these women--and here is everything I ever wanted to know! The research that went into this book is astonishing. The writing is juicy and fast-paced, but thoughtful and serious too. The interweaving of cultural and social issues is extremely effective, yet more than anything, I was intrigued by the author's depiction of the sheer ambition of each of these three very different women. The book brilliantly explores that ambition and the myriad personal factors that both encouraged and hindered them on the road to artistic and commercial success. In the end, it made me a bit bereft to compare these talented three to the artists most young women are listening to today--it seems to me they cannot compare. Highly recommended.
 Too too much September 14, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am so happy I never bought this book, but rather, got it from my library.
I was so looking forward to reading it also.
This book is way too long and way too detailed.
If you love 1/2 page footnotes on every person that ever came into contact with each woman, this book is for you.
I understand the need for a bit of history of course, but she just totally overdoes it. She could have spared us all an easy 150 pages by eliminating a ton of noisy, unimportant information and facts that did nothing to make the story better by a long shot.
I loved her book on the Nicole Brown Simpson murder called Raging Heart, though. THAT was a great read.
Author doesn't match her subjects for gift of the written word September 14, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I just finished the introduction, which is 28 pages long, and was greatly frustrated. For the most part, the author refers to various songs written by the songwriters without stating the titles. I would have appreciated knowing what she was talking about so I could give the songs a listen, but no luck. Even when she alluded to You're So Vain by Carly Simon, she didn't mention the title; I just happened to be able to read between the lines and figure it out. Weller may have done considerable research for this book, but, hey, if we don't need her to say which songs she's referring to, why do we need her book? What a shame - I was looking forward to reading this. Maybe it will get better.
These Girls ARE us and they reflect us back to us... September 14, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's a "woman's" book...and yet it is a book music fans of the 60's will love. In addition to the women in the title there's lots about greats like: Graham Nash, Joan Baez, Neil Young, Cass Elliot, David Crosby, Bob Dylan...
If, like me, you too are a child of the sixties - a bit of a flower-child, a "folkie" or fan of any of these iconic singers you'll LOVE it!
In the 60's while I was hanging out in the coffee houses of Greenwhich Village, Joni was braking into the folk music business in Canada.
In 1965 Joni Mitchell lost her only to adoption. Like millions of us did during that era, I too lost mine in 1968. I knew we had this in common since the first time I heard "Little Green" which the book confirms was written for the daughter she named Kelly.
Like Joni, I placed my daughter in foster care. Like Joni, one man fathered my child and I hoped another would save me and rescue my child from adoption. I was married to the first one, she married the second.
It was what "we did" in the sixties.
Like me, she went it alone - no maternity home and no parents' help.
Like me - and millions of us - she suffred pain and grief...but no shame! She "saw" her daughter in the faces of every young girl. And she penned more than just "Green" about it all.
Bravo to Weller for so poignantly and sentivitly telling this very personal and painful part of Jonie's life, as well as filling us in on the her daughter's life with an adoptive family - who kept her adoption a secret - and with whom she didn't match and their reunion.
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BRILLIANT IDEA, RIVETING BOOK! September 11, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Everything you've ever wanted to know about three of the most fascinating women of our times. Sheila Weller has reinvented women's history with this juicy, riveting look inside the lives of the stars of our youth and beyond. I loved reading about Carole, Joni, and Carly -- what drove them then, what keeps them excited, why they became the galvanizing people they are. And I thought Sheila Weller's writing style and insights were brilliant. This is not only a page-turner full of the best kind of celebrity gossip; it's an important book about women's place in our cultural world.
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