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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
informative
reflective
fast-paced
Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You is musician Lucinda William's 2023 memoir. It is short and concise and ranges from being wildly vague (like about her first marriage which got a sentence, maybe two?) to extremely detailed, though neither is always where you want it to be. She's had an interesting life, and her tales of needing to take her time and OCD in relation to what's happening in her life is fascinating. Like how she didn't gain mass popularity until she was in her 40s (she's now in her 70s), but she's been playing music and singing since she was a teenager.
I listened to the audiobook version, as I try to do for celebrity memoirs when they usually read it themselves - and I adamantly do not recommend it. She is not a great narrator, it feels very much disjointed like she's quickly skimming through a repair manual. Zero emotion. It made it like the book less, when usually it elevates the book for me so that is a bummer. Otherwise, there's plenty to like about the book, and the writing, and the author.
I listened to the audiobook version, as I try to do for celebrity memoirs when they usually read it themselves - and I adamantly do not recommend it. She is not a great narrator, it feels very much disjointed like she's quickly skimming through a repair manual. Zero emotion. It made it like the book less, when usually it elevates the book for me so that is a bummer. Otherwise, there's plenty to like about the book, and the writing, and the author.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Lucinda is the best. A five star lady. Therefore this book gets 5 stars.
An honest, open account of a legend’s life. I ate it up.
An honest, open account of a legend’s life. I ate it up.
Lucinda Williams is someone whose music I really like but whose life I knew almost nothing about. This memoir was good and, I appreciate when she was able to directly correlate a life experience to specific song lyrics.
I love her music and found this informative but it’s not a great book by any stretch.
House rules, no exceptions
No bad language, no gambling, no fighting
Sorry, no credit, don't ask
Bathroom wall reads: Is God the answer? Yes
Too cool to be forgotten
Hey, hey, too cool to be forgotten
No bad language, no gambling, no fighting
Sorry, no credit, don't ask
Bathroom wall reads: Is God the answer? Yes
Too cool to be forgotten
Hey, hey, too cool to be forgotten
Memoir narrated by Lucinda Williams herself in her gravelly southern voice. Interesting stories of her life starting from her birth to young parents unequipped to deal with children --her mother suffered from bipolar disease in a time when many would be institutionalized, but Lucinda's father did his best and tried to shield his children from the worst behaviors, telling them, "don't be mad, your mother is sick", which is more understanding that many today, never mind in the 1950s. Stories all through her life bouncing from place to place across the continent, writing and singing, getting caught up in relationships.
What A Freaking Woman!
The trajectory of going from only being attracted to ‘poets on motorcycles’ to ‘a man you barely knew but knew would be around awhile’
I love Lucinda, to put it simply
The trajectory of going from only being attracted to ‘poets on motorcycles’ to ‘a man you barely knew but knew would be around awhile’
I love Lucinda, to put it simply
I am a pretty casual Lucinda Williams fan, so I didn’t know that much about her. This book was mostly an accounting of the events of her life and while that was pretty interesting, I didn’t get a feel for what Lucinda is really like. Felt very surface for the most part.
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road was the soundtrack to my early twenties. Lucinda is a bad ass and does things her way with passion and intention. The list of musicians and writers in this book is pretty amazing.