Using my graph system,I could have started higher, but then it would have been practically a straight line at 90%. A good score but boring to look at. Can't have that can we? The only way to better the book would have been a couple more photos, maybe inserted pages to improve on the very few grainy ones included. But now that leaves the option for the next update on Storm's career. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Admittedly you may not find it easy to read as it covers severe mental illness and a family’s distress, especially on the youngest, a daughter called Storm. Her language, like her life, is 'colourful.' A memoir that is so tough to read; how hard was it to write? Cathartic, I hope. A sharp, vicious, alarmingly easy to read, full of drama, ego, downright dangerous, lucky to survive, beautiful book full of harm, love and fighting for a life to grow into. Throw into the mix the world of musicians, bands, gritty nightclubs and gigs around San Francisco and the wider circle of the U.S. with a young woman who had built a hard outer shell to protect her fragile inner and you have a roller-coaster story. A page-turner you never want to end, except in some more positive scene, without a ‘gotcha.’ But, of course, there is one final ‘Gotcha.’ For me, her life hinged on ‘you’ll be crazy too, it’s in the genes’, part of a throw-away sentence by a doctor to a young, sensitised child. This memoir, I hope, lays bare a tough life lived through to a now, ever improving story of a strong and beautiful woman. A singer with extraordinary gifts and strength of voice, performance and presence. ‘Simply awesome.’ Published by Free Press, a Simon & Schuster imprint. 978 1 4391 9241 2 $16.00. Paperback. 267pp
Month: June 2021
Storm Large: Crazy Enough
Just received this book! It has been out some years but I am delighted to read and review it.
Storm Large is a singer of range and quality I admire greatly. I expect to have a turmoil of a read but no lessening of admiration.
A review will follow, hopefully in not too long a time!
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