Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--And the Journey of a Generation @ richardeward.com

Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--And the Journey of a Generation
by Sheila Weller
from Atria

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• overwritten
  Despite the fascinating subject matter, the author has has succumbed to self indulgence. It is a combination of her personal cliched analysis of women's sexual liberation and a wikipedia type entry of a litany of names. In doing this the narrative, the basic story telling suffers.

• Could not put this down
  I love these three women but I never expected to find a book that told stories about them that I never heard before. There was such compassion and energy in this book, every time I finished one chapter and moved on to the next one it was like finishing an episode of a (good) tv show and wanting it to be next week already so you could learn what happened next. I always vaguely assumed that these women had to contend with the restrictions of the times but I never knew the details and how each of them took... more info

• Where was the Editor?
  I was so excited to hear about this book, however, after slogging through 91 pages, I am giving up. I am sure there are gems of information somewhere in here but I am unwilling to look any further. It's as if someone published the first draft with no editing . . . ever. I find myself laughing outloud at the sentence structure and the length of those sentences; having to backtrack and re-read a passage to get the meaning. It is hard to know sometimes when Ms. Weller is talking about which singer, although... more info

• "It's (Not) Too Late, Baby..."
  A marvelous blending of the life stories of three women who came of age at the beginning of the feminist movement, but who came from very different places. Carole, a young bride and mother from Brooklyn, Joni from distant Canada, and Carly from upper-middle class New York.
  They each have a major issue to come to terms with: for Carole, it was life after the smashing success of Tapestry; for Joni, it was the struggle to stay true to her art while remaining relevant in the record universe (as well as... more info

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