Reviews - Dolly Parton, Songteller

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Dolly Parton, Songteller

Dolly Parton

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dolores_ferrero's review

4.25

funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

BX Link: https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/17365345

Genre: Biography/Memoir

Where: TN

When 1960-2022

Thoughts/Reflections: We listened to this one on the drive from San Ramon to Palm Springs, and i highly recommend the audio format – it was fun to hear Dolly’s songs interspersed with her thoughts about them, getting the background stories not just in her words but in her voice. She’s had an amazing career, and her book was a great way to start 2025.

My favorite words:

“I think it’s so important to instill in children to have faith and to know there are great things out there. Greatness is out there, greatness you can tap into. But it has to start from in your heart.”

“It's like a battery that has to have a positive and a negative. One doesn't work without the other. You've gotta have the good and the bad in order to know what's right, and in order to know what's real and what ain't.”

“Nothing’s ever easy. If it is, it ain’t worth it.”

“I look back on all that now, and I realize this helped to build my character. It helped me build my own strength. So even the bad times were good. There were good times as well as bad times. But that's how memories are made, and that's why I'm sitting here today.”

“I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.”