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charleseliot 's review for:
Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song
by Sara Bareilles
Two-thirds of this book is OK - a bit bland, a bit earnest, typical of the young-celebrity-autobiography genre. But one-third is wonderful and evocative and important: a heartfelt examination of the damage that body-shaming can inflict.
The lesson applies to her book as well. Sara Bareilles is a great singer-songwriter, and isn't pretending to be a great author. If we look at the beauty in what she has done instead of judging her against Tolstoy or Fitzgerald, we're being more fair, more humane, and getting more back.
So read this book. Even better, listen to the audiobook. It took guts for Sara to write this book, and you'll hear it in her telling more than in her writing. Besides, on the audiobook she sings.
The lesson applies to her book as well. Sara Bareilles is a great singer-songwriter, and isn't pretending to be a great author. If we look at the beauty in what she has done instead of judging her against Tolstoy or Fitzgerald, we're being more fair, more humane, and getting more back.
So read this book. Even better, listen to the audiobook. It took guts for Sara to write this book, and you'll hear it in her telling more than in her writing. Besides, on the audiobook she sings.