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Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon - And the Journey of a Generation

By: Sheila Weller
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ebury Press
ISBN: 0091899249
ISBN-13: 9780091899240
Released: 03 Apr 2008
RRP: £18.99
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A powerful and moving rendering of a hugely important moment in the history of feminism - By: Anne Elliot, 15 May 2008
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Having been a young woman in the '70s & a child in the '60's this graphic account of the developments in the '60's filled in the gaps for me. The three singer/songwriters are described with warmth, generosity & a clarity that captured my imagination & sent me back to their music, I closed the book with a huge respect for their ground breaking work, something I'd previously taken for granted. I think that Sheila Weller has done a brilliant job processing the information she had & analysing it in terms of the period. The only weakness is in some of the writing which descends into the style of a rather unskilled rock journalist. However, this is not always the case & at many points the writing is clear & unpretentious. This book is worth reading for anyone interested in why we, as women, are where we are today & have the freedoms we do.
I loved this book! - By: Elizabeth Fiman, 02 May 2008
I'm a woman of the 60's & it alll rang true. I think we alll wanted to be these three women when we were younger, & the stories behind the music, plus the real-life tales of each woman's challlanges to free herself from stiffling conventions kept me reading it straight through. The evocation of each woman's personality & her particular challlenges was keen - I felt I knew them by the time the book was finished (and could so relate to so much of what they went through). You also got a chance to revisit the times ....How I had forgotten so many details: What we wore, what concerned us, how smalll a space a young woman had to move around in, how much she had to do on her own. These women's music expressed the exhilleration & the pain of charting a new course, & by the end of the book I wanted to hug them (and listen to their magnificent albums alll over -- & over -- again)
Girls Like Us - By: B. Biggin, 30 Apr 2008
Save your money for the CDs. That is my advise. This author is so busy putting comments in brackets & hyphens that the story is very hard to follow. There are copious amounts of names that seem unimportant here & detract from the tale. I will listen to the music instead. A big disappointment to this 'child of the sixties'.