Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
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Book Reviews of Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
Book Review: What a long-awaited delight!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the best autobiography I've ever read.I have been eagerly awaiting this book since it was announced last year,and I was not disappointed.Julie tells her own life story in a straightforward and very honest manner.Her prose is lovely,and the photos are excellent.And yes,she
dishes the gossip(wait till you read what she says about Rex Harrison and Richard Burton!)The best thing about the book is that it's very informal.
You really feel like you're just having a long,intimate conversation with
Julie.This is a warm,leisurely,and highly entertaining read.I can't wat for the sequel!The Sound of Music (1965 Film Soundtrack - 40th Anniversary Special Edition)
Book Review: Loved Home but it wasn't enough
Summary: 5 Stars
Julie Andrews' Home is a lovely account about her early days in England, concluding just as she arrives in the U.S. where her career truly took off. It is beautifully written and wonderfully supported with details and many interesting accounts I knew nothing about. I was so sorry when it ended where it did because I, as probably many other readers, would love to know her sentiments about how the remainder of her marvelous career developed. Some of her insights and honesty are richly rewarding because she has always been that illustrious "star" so well admired by fellow entertainers and zillions of us, her fans. Home is a tease and I hope she will one day collaborate with her daughter, Emma, and finish the rest of the story.Book Review: How A Loving Father Nurtured a Special Girl
Summary: 5 Stars
Dame Julie has written a generous and candid book, describing a childhood and youth filled with special challenges and the musical gift that brought joy to millions. At the quiet center of her book is her kind father, who, while divorced from Julie's mother, provided the constant love and security that grounded this special young person. When she was growing up, Julia Wells was far from being the incandescent star we know today. Yet, her father treated her as the special young person she was. This book is above all the unsentimental tribute from that luminous child to her beloved father. How wonderful that Dame Julie Andrews is every bit as beautiful a person as she seemed atop that Austrian mountain.Book Review: So Much There
Summary: 5 Stars
Julie Andrews always brings Mary Poppins and the Sound Of Music to mind to me from when I was young. Classics. Then I started seeing her in a different light when I was old enough to watch movies such as Victor...Victoria. Not a bad light, but there was a point that I realized she was not Mary Poppins but was more.
A remarkable talent as both an actress and singer (and writer) and always appearing to be the eptiome of class, this book shows how much she went through all the years in a honest and telling book.
Reading this book bought a new level of appreciation to me about Julie Andrews.
Book Review: HOME: A MEMOIR BY JULIE ANDREWS
Summary: 5 Stars
HOME: A MEMOIR BY JULIE ANDREWS IS AN EXTREMELY READABLE BOOK, NICELY FORMATTED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED IN TWO SECTIONS. EXPLORES MID-20TH C LIFE IN RURAL ENGLAND, COMPLICATED LIVES OF HER PARENTS, AND THE STATE OF VAUDEVILLE AND THEN THEATRE OF THE ERA. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN THE BRITISH THEATRE ARTS & ACTORS OF THE TIME. MOVES READER FROM ENGLAND TO NEW YORK AND EXPLORES THE DIFFERENCES OF THE TWO SETTINGS. YOU TRULY DISCOVER JULIE ANDREWS' MINDSET ALL THE WAY ALONG HER ROAD TO SUPER-STARDOM. A NICE ADDITION TO ANY LIBRARY COVERING THEATRE ARTS. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.