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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
I have read a lot of books in my life. Books are important to me, they’ve made me who I am. Words are that way too. In my mind, sometimes I like to pretend I’m a writer. In reality, I cling to words I didn’t write to try and express how I feel and find answers about who I am. In my mind, writers are people that feel a pull towards making their thoughts tangible, can weave intricate patterns of words to express themselves or make sense of whats going on in their heads. I’ve felt like that a few times in my life. I am not a writer, but I felt like one yesterday. Yesterday, a book came into my life that made me want to tell the world how much it meant to me, or at least try to.
Yesterday I drove from Charleston, South Carolina back to school in Elon, North Carolina after a long weekend trip with my parents. I’m 4 months into a 10 month masters program, living 10 hours from home for the first time, and feeling myself floundering more often than I’d like to admit. I am a self-professed enthusiastic car singer (really, I've given some epic concerts in there) but yesterday I signed up for audible.com just so I could listen to Sara Bareilles’ autobiographical new book, Sounds Like Me. I would like to officially go back in time and congratulate past me on making such a great decision. My trip home was like sitting down to chat with a guardian angel disguised as an older sister figure who was sent to tell me everything I needed to hear right when I needed to hear it.
Let’s just get it out there: I cried a lot. They should put a warning on this audiobook not to listen to it while you’re driving because the tears will obstruct your view. But I laughed a lot too. I felt moved and inspired, and like I might not be as lost as I feel like I am sometimes – or at least I’m lost in the right direction. I wanted to plaster my walls with whole paragraphs so I could read them everyday. I felt a pull to find a way to write down everything that I felt, every reaction I had, every time I thought “thank God” for feeling like I wasn’t the only one who felt like a messy shell of who I want to be sometimes. I’ve read other collections of essays from people I admire, but none that felt like they were speaking directly to me like this one did. This book is special. Sara is a writer, in the very best sense of the word. Sara is the kind of writer I dream about being. She is witty, she is smart, she is honest, and she is inspiring. Her words were like a map to a place I haven’t reached yet, but might someday because she told me I can. I just needed to write that down, to thank her in some way for making me cry and making me laugh and being there when I needed her.
Dear Sara,
Thank you for sending this piece of yourself out into the world for me to find. Thank you for saying all the things I needed to hear, without even knowing I needed to hear them. Thank you for writing a book that sounded just like you, but sounded a little bit like me too.
Love, Keara
Yesterday I drove from Charleston, South Carolina back to school in Elon, North Carolina after a long weekend trip with my parents. I’m 4 months into a 10 month masters program, living 10 hours from home for the first time, and feeling myself floundering more often than I’d like to admit. I am a self-professed enthusiastic car singer (really, I've given some epic concerts in there) but yesterday I signed up for audible.com just so I could listen to Sara Bareilles’ autobiographical new book, Sounds Like Me. I would like to officially go back in time and congratulate past me on making such a great decision. My trip home was like sitting down to chat with a guardian angel disguised as an older sister figure who was sent to tell me everything I needed to hear right when I needed to hear it.
Let’s just get it out there: I cried a lot. They should put a warning on this audiobook not to listen to it while you’re driving because the tears will obstruct your view. But I laughed a lot too. I felt moved and inspired, and like I might not be as lost as I feel like I am sometimes – or at least I’m lost in the right direction. I wanted to plaster my walls with whole paragraphs so I could read them everyday. I felt a pull to find a way to write down everything that I felt, every reaction I had, every time I thought “thank God” for feeling like I wasn’t the only one who felt like a messy shell of who I want to be sometimes. I’ve read other collections of essays from people I admire, but none that felt like they were speaking directly to me like this one did. This book is special. Sara is a writer, in the very best sense of the word. Sara is the kind of writer I dream about being. She is witty, she is smart, she is honest, and she is inspiring. Her words were like a map to a place I haven’t reached yet, but might someday because she told me I can. I just needed to write that down, to thank her in some way for making me cry and making me laugh and being there when I needed her.
Dear Sara,
Thank you for sending this piece of yourself out into the world for me to find. Thank you for saying all the things I needed to hear, without even knowing I needed to hear them. Thank you for writing a book that sounded just like you, but sounded a little bit like me too.
Love, Keara
It's not a particularly meaty book but it reveals a lot of character. It adds more personal details to Sara's chart-topping hits and a greater sense of her charm for someone who has never experienced her banter in concert. I only wish there was more, but I don't feel starved.
5⭐
The fact that a 4 hour audiobook can be 5 stars is crazy to me. I've loved Sara Bareilles for years and never knew she wrote a book. You absolutely have to listen to this in audiobook format. It felt like we were sitting on the couch in her living room, drinking coffee and talking about life. I laughed out loud multiple times. She sang between chapters. I was truly so sad when it concluded. I really enjoyed learning more about her.
The fact that a 4 hour audiobook can be 5 stars is crazy to me. I've loved Sara Bareilles for years and never knew she wrote a book. You absolutely have to listen to this in audiobook format. It felt like we were sitting on the couch in her living room, drinking coffee and talking about life. I laughed out loud multiple times. She sang between chapters. I was truly so sad when it concluded. I really enjoyed learning more about her.
I liked this book quite a bit, although it's hard to imagine someone not already charmed by Sara Bareilles cracking it open. Definitely need to pick up her new Waitress album and a few B-sides mentioned in the book that I didn't know about.
Loved this memoir. Funny and honest and relatable. Definitely worth listening to the audiobook version; she sings some songs.
She said this was the hardest thing she’s ever done, but she really should do it more because this book is fantastic! Funny, heartfelt, insightful, real, and relatable. Probably my favorite celeb bio ever. I was always a fan of Sara, but now I feel like I really know and love her. Thank you for sharing so much of yourself Sara!!
P.S. you MUST listen to the audiobook because Sara sings and does goofy voices and it’s just the best!
P.S. you MUST listen to the audiobook because Sara sings and does goofy voices and it’s just the best!
funny
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
Full review on my blog :-) https://theaimlessreview.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/review-sounds-like-me-my-life-so-far-in-song-by-sara-bareilles/
I’m so sad I finished this. I loved being inside this brave and amazing woman’s head. She’s so inspiring!