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When I Grow Up: A Memoir (2008)

by Juliana Hatfield(Favorite Author)

3.5 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0470189592 (ISBN13: 9780470189597)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Wiley

review 1: I found this book a fascinating read, but I'm a fan. I wonder what people would make of it that aren't familiar with her music. Anyway, what struck me most is how she alternates between being deeply recflective about her own behavior and at other times coming across as quite self-centered and unaware of others' feelings. I was a little put off by that first, but then I realiased that it's only natural.I could've done with more details regarding her career, e.g. how she formed and disbanded the various groups of musicians she worked with throughout the years etc., but even so I'm very glad to have had the opportunity to read as much as she chose to share with the world.
review 2: I can't help but compare this with the other rock memoir I read recently, Kristin H... moreersh's Rat Girl. This one is not quite as good, funny or insightful as Rat Girl, but it did pick up some steam as she delved deeper into some of her personal issues. Her shyness is evident in the way she isn't entirely open about everything - but she is open enough to allow readers to understand her bouts with depression and anorexia. Throughout the book, she comes off as someone who is cautious, meticulous, and relatively immune to the common rock traps of drugs, alcohol and excess. If anything, she's ascetic to a fault. less

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