Grrrls: Viva Rock Divas

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Courtney Love: "I rely a lot on sexual metaphors-food as sex, music as sex, fucked-up weird insane sexual vistas that haunt me and make me feel as though I were going insane sometimes."

Bjork: "I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds."

Kim Gordon: "I always wanted to rebel."

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For those interested in feminism in rock n'roll.......2004-06-17

This book was pretty good. I bought it based on the fact that three of my favorite artists were interviewed in this book (Hole, Veruca Salt, Liz Phair). The Hole interview was disappointing but I really enjoyed the one on Veruca Salt (I'm glad they finally got some recognition). Other interesting interviews were the ones with Bjork, Ellyott Dragon (Sister George), and Tanya Donnelly (Belly). In response to the reviewer below me, no they really did talk about Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, L7, Babes In Toyland, etc they just didn't interview them personally. Which would have been cool though. Buy it if you are interested in women in rock.

Good, but what it's missing really annoys me........2002-04-03

This book is very good, worth the money and time reading it. But I do wish the author included more bands and solo artists. Amy Raphael went all the way back to The Raincoats and Sonic Youth but LEAVES OUT Patti Smith. PJ Harvey is nowhere to be found in this book. (!!!???) Neither are L7, Babes In Toyland......you get the picture. It's missing a lot of important "rock divas".

Oh no.. Courtney Love.......1999-09-08

My admiring words for this book are going to be cut short by the fact that the Courtney Love/Hole chapter focuses more on a self absorbed look at music rather than the larger. However, this peep into women in rock will leave you wanting more. You'll want to go listen to Liz Phair and change your world.

A MuSt ReAd.......1999-07-25

This is a must read book, It is all about what its like to be a woman in the music industry and grrrl power. The Courtney love interview is great and the book also covers from Bjork to Kim Gordon. It is a must read for teenage girls.

Deb Harry is the bomb!.......1999-06-23

Deb Harry's introduction to the book is the best thing about it: short, sharp, sexy. The Courtney Love chapter is more of the same self-indulgent, ego-maniacal drivel you've come to expect. The Bjork chapter is a must read! She's original, & her happy-go-lucky attitude is so refreshing.

Love At Goon Park : Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection (Science Matters)

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what we learned - what we still have to learn
Even the book's cover will break your heart
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Fascinating Look at Harlow's Research
Great topic, lousy subject

Love At Goon Park : Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection (Science Matters)
Deborah Blum
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: B000EXYZVI

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We take it for granted today that babies need love. But less than a century ago, psychologists warned women against showing their children "too much affection"-predicting dire consequences ranging from deadly disease to sexual dysfunction in adulthood. The story of how this conventional wisdom was finally shattered takes us into the life and the laboratory of Harry Harlow-workaholic, alcoholic, brilliant and brave, capable of caustic wit and cruelty-and into an era in which the scientific establishment was just beginning to understand the power of human emotion.

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what we learned - what we still have to learn.......2007-07-30

When Harry Harlow started exploring the science of affection it was in the face of disregard and opposition in the world of medicine and psychology. But he was able to show that affection is vital to the proper development of the newly born, as too is the measured rejection of the newly born's parents when the time is right. Consequently we now encourage the bonding of parents and children through physical handling. (Perhaps more affectionate and supportive friendships outside the family have developed as a result also.)

These were great insights for society and yet Harlow did face opposition. Just when he was saying the role of the mother (and father - but he was less vocal about that) was vital to the upbringing of the baby, the womens liberation movement was trying to get women more freedom - more equality on the basis of being the same as men. How could this new emphasis on the importance of the role of parents (principally women as men were traditionally the 'bread winners') be tolerated? To me, however, there is a mistake in this. We should not be treated equally because we are the same - but for the very opposite reason - because we are all unique. If we are to get the best from each unique individual then each individual must have equal rights and opportunity. Unfortunately Harlow's approach to opposition was often rude and confronting.

After his death Harlow's research faced another challenge - this time from the animal liberation activists. Harlow had done his experiments on monkeys principally, and these experiments necessarily had damaging (and surprising) results for the animals experimented on. Harlow did care for the animals and provided for them as well as he could in difficult circumstances - for example, he always tried to 'restore' emotionally damaged animals. Although we may now regret the methods he and his students used, and certainly not want to repeat them for the sake of student exercises, we should not lose sight of the vital information that was uncovered.

Deborah Blum's book is engaging and revealing - especially concerning the history of human behaviour with regard to affection and love. It is surprising how recent (1950s) some attitudes were that are now totally overthrown, at least in part because of Harlow's work.

But does psychology have more lessons to learn from Harlow? It is my belief that this is so. I recently had a workplace experience where I was confronted by a workplace bully. But immediately I knew this bully was not picking on me - this was just characteristic behaviour that was applied to everyone they worked with. All the stories and rumours I had heard - and continued to hear with more clarity - suddenly had greater presence for me. To overcome my distress at this situation I used the free staff counselling service offered by my employer. Perhaps in doing that I was already demonstrating my capacity to manage, to cope. What, however, of my colleagues who I now had insight to the terrible behaviour of the bully for them? Harlow would not have been surprised that I had bonded with these people - to some more closely than others. But the psychologist/counsellor understood nothing of this - as long as I was dealt with (the immediate client) nothing else could be done. But the only thing that could really be done for me was to smash all the bonds I had built with my colleagues so that I was no longer concerned for them. Was that reasonable?

And what of psychology offered to one of a married couple privately from the bond that links them. What is the risk that this will actually prise apart the bond that needs to be strengthened or at least maintained? I'm not sure how psychology should handle these matters but it continues to alarm me that the insights of Harlow are still being overlooked in areas where they should not be. Is it the impact of the womens liberation and animal liberation movements that have denigrated the research sufficiently to block its use in other areas?

other recommendations:
'Workplace Monsters' John Clarke (Random House Australia)
'Conditions of Love' John Armstrong
'A Crystal Age' W H Hudson

Even the book's cover will break your heart.......2006-12-03

Fifty years ago I had psych classes at the UW, and I helped tend the rats in 600 N. Park. I learned about Harry Harlow, Carl Rogers, and schools of thought in Psychology. Now, finally, I understand and see the importance of what was going on here.

Deborah Blum has clarified the conflicts in behavioral science during the first half of the 20th century as my instructors never could. She has given human faces to the names that were listed in the semester timetables, but whom most students never saw. And Harry Harlow's flaws are not whitewashed, but they are understandable.

Younger readers will be aghast at the parenting style that was advocated by child health professionals over 50 years ago. Many of us, although we were not neglected or abandoned, were not cuddled and made to feel cherished. Harlow, among others, was able to disprove the validity of a sterile upbringing in creating a human adult.

And it is truly a page-turner, well written and captivating.

Great purchase.......2006-08-04

This book was in great shape and is an excellent read for those who want to understand

Fascinating Look at Harlow's Research.......2005-08-15

This is one of the most interesting and well written books I've ever read on this or any similar topic. To anyone who studies or has studied attachment, Blum offers an amazing look at how this early research changed the face of psychology. To anyone who has read countless poorly written descriptions of boring research studies, this book is an oasis.

I don't believe Blum has portrayed Harlow through rose-colored glasses. On the contrary, anyone reading this book might even wonder whether Harlow's neglect of his own children was a good thing, given his lack of compassion and indifference toward the suffering he caused. My copy is well-worn and has been loaned out many times. I highly recommend this book.

Great topic, lousy subject.......2004-09-27

This is an extremely interesting book in terms of underlining how damaging scientific fads can be. The early twentieth century fad of data and cleanliness may well have led to the deaths many children as cleanliness was preferred over attention.

Unfortunately, Harry Harlow is less interesting, and provides an abominable contrast to the subject. Harlow ignores both wives and his children in search for - as he wrote in his school's yearbook - 'fame'. He becomes a chain-smoking alcoholic. Bizarrely, Blum emphasises Harlow's visionary understanding of love with, at times, an almost 'here comes superman' manner. She appears incapable of reconciling her argument that Harlow is the scientist of love with the fact that he ignored his wives and all his children!

If anything, I read the book as reflecting one man's selfish, desperate desire for achievement and fame. Thanks to his interest in monkeys, he and his students seemed to fall over the answer. Not exactly visionary.

A good read though, reflecting the pitfalls of faddish thinking, and also how scientific discoveries (if the fact that a child needs its mother is a discovery) occur. The book also reflects how difficult it can be to refute incorrect arguments.

Criminal Case 40/61, The Trial Of Adolf Eichmann: An Eyewitness Account (Personal Takes)

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Criminal Case 40/61, The Trial Of Adolf Eichmann: An Eyewitness Account (Personal Takes)
Harry Mulisch
Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press
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ASIN: 0812238613

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Under a deceptively simple label, "criminal case 40/61," the trial of Adolf Eichmann began in 1961. Hannah Arendt covered the trial for the New Yorker magazine and recorded her observations in Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Banality of Evil. Harry Mulisch was also assigned to cover the trial for a Dutch news weekly. Arendt would later say in her book's preface that Mulisch was one of the few people who shared her views on the character of Eichmann. At the time, Mulisch was a young and little-known writer. He has since emerged as an author with an international reputation, celebrated for such novels as The Assault and The Discovery of Heaven.

Mulisch modestly called his book on case 40/61 a report, and it is certainly that, as he gives firsthand accounts of the trial and its key players and scenes (the defendant's face strangely asymmetric and riddled by tics, his speech absurdly baroque). Eichmann's character comes out in his incessant bureaucratizing and calculating, as well as in his grandiose visions of himself as a Pontius Pilate-like innocent. As Mulisch intersperses his dispatches from Jerusalem with meditative accounts of a divided and ruined Berlin, an eerily rebuilt Warsaw, and a visit to the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann emerges as a disturbing and highly personal essay on the Nazi extermination of European Jews and on the human capacity to commit evil ever more efficiently in an age of technological advancement.

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Long before fair–haired bad girls Courtney Love and Madonna, there was the blond ambition of Deborah Harry. She became a mainstream star, but her punk sensibility, unapologetic sexuality, and esoteric artiness, not to mention her close friendship with Andy Warhol, made her name synonymous with New York City cool and the intersecting worlds of punk, rock, art, film, and fashion. Written with the singer’s full cooperation, and as uncensored as the woman herself, this is a vivid portrait of a vastly influential artist.

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Golden "Blonde".......2005-02-24

Before Gwen Stefani, Madonna and Courtney Love, the original and premier rock blonde of the world was Deborah Harry. So it's a given that she would be adored as an icon of rock, punk and pop music -- but does Cathay Che have to adore her quite so much?

"Platinum Blonde" is a useful, interesting look at the life and work of Debbie Harry -- adopted at three months into the New Jersey Harry family, Debbie later went on to the legendary Max's Kansas City, and then to become the frontwoman of the hit punk band called Blondie. (Contrary to legend, SHE is not Blondie herself) Later, when the band broke up, Debbie embarked on a solid solo career as a singer and actress.

Biographies are always a lot better when the subject goes along with it, or even helps. Debbie Harry did both, and that means that the details are plentiful and the background is as well-researched as it possibly can be. In addition, Che has some very exclusive interviews with Harry and her bandmate Chris Stein. These interviews are intelligent, insightful, and give a great deal of insight into Harry, her career, and her band, and are without a doubt the best part of the book.

What is more, the book has a great deal of other input on Harry and Co., most of which add to the overall "feel" of the book. (Except for one mildly icky story about a photographer getting a naughty glimpse in one of his photos). And Che has a great deal of enthusiasm for her subject, and the impact Blondie and Harry had on the world.

The main problem is Che's rosy lenses -- it's understandable that a fan would get a bit adoring of Harry, especially after interviewing her in person for this. However, it gets a bit tiresome to be told repeatedly what a great band Blondie was, and what a flawlessly amazing human being Debbie Harry is, and so on and so forth. I adore Harry too, yet not quite that much.

However, Che's excellent research and solid writing make up somewhat for the gushy tone; most die-hard fans can't write anywhere near this well. "Platinum Blonde" has one major flaw, but is otherwise an excellent biography of one of rock's first ladies.

Complimentary portrait of Deborah Harry.......2003-08-31

Cathy Che's book traces Harry's life from her birth in New Jersey to her becoming drummer and vocalist in the psychedelic group Wind In The Willows, singing with the Stilettoes, to Blondie, and beyond. However, she divides the book thematically, such as Harry as a movie actress, Harry's influence on music after Blondie's departure from the music scene, as an icon for gays, and on fashion. All this leads up to the Blondie reunion, which yielded the No Exit album and the accompanying tour.

The coverage of the CBGB's scene and the onset of Blondiemania is done well, and certain movie roles, i.e. Videodrome, Heavy, and Hairspray, have added detail, as they were starring roles for her.

The key content of the book are the series of interviews with Deborah Harry and the one with Chris Stein. Che does reveal at the outset that Harry despises idiotic questions like "how does it feel to be a sex symbol?" And that good manners and intelligent questions are a prerequisite to have a successful and interesting interview with her. Her answers are honest, open, with a twist of humour every now and then. However, what struck me was her belief that her accomplishments wasn't worth a full book. Even Chris Stein thinks Harry doesn't realize the influence she has had on pop culture, which is bringing the "movie starlet sensibility into rock."

What's important to emphasize, as Che does is that Blondie is all five members of the group, i.e. Harry, Stein, Clem Burke, Jimmie Destri, Gary Valentine, and as may have been apparent, Blondie became solely equated with Deborah Harry, an inaccuracy on one hand, but that's something that Chris Leeds, Blondie's manager from 77-79, fervently argues, that the men were "backing up this particularly beautiful woman." Leeds is portrayed as a controlling force and someone who had what it took to push Blondie in the spotlight, and he isn't portrayed too flatteringly here, perhaps justifiably so, as a clause in the exit contract gave him 20% royalties.

Another way to put it was 'Blondie' as Harry's onstage persona, a 70's Jean Harlow or Marilyn Monroe. As Harry said, "The initial idea was to be desirable, feminine, and vulnerable, but a resilient, tenacious wit at the same time." "For this reason, technically Deborah Harry both is and isn't Blondie." I can go for that.

The brief commentary by those influenced by her include Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, Fred Schneider of the B-52's, whose new track "Debbie" on their Future Generation greatest hits is a nod to Ms. harry, Michael Stipe of REM, and Theo Kogan of the Lunachicks is quite rewarding to read. And Che also mentions Madonna, whose fiery independent, self-assured image was surely taken from Deborah Harry.

There is a series of photographs, including Andy Warhol's wonderful silk-screen portrait, a very interesting surreal painting by Robert Williams, and the usual bunch of photos.

Warm, accessible, and generous is how Che portrays Harry in this book, but Evelyn McDonnell's final words in the foreword sums things up pretty well: "When Blondie died Harry was able to go on living."

Not good enough.......2002-09-27

This is a poorly written book (chock full of typos and inaccuracies) that doesn't do justice to the very interesting subject of Harry's life. It's nice that someone aimed to write her biography, but if you're looking for something definitive, you'll have to keep waiting.

Despite the fact that Che had access to Harry and Chris Stein, she came up with no new revelations, and doesn't even tell the story of Harry's life; she simply focuses on Harry's sex appeal and stardom, and doesn't even delve into that too critically. Pass on this one.

Detroit 442.......2002-08-23

I love Deborah Harry. She is a genuinely interesting artist. The author relies too heavily on Deborah's own book Making Tracks. I could have saved my money and just reread Making Tracks.

I WANTED to LOVE it..........2001-11-29

...okay fans and friends, not to make this review section a (contest) let's just say I have seen Debbie perform at least 30 times since '78 in all forms, with Blondie, Jazz passengers, to recorded track solo gigs, with Tiger Bomb, to guest vocals with the Ramones. (....)I learned nothing more insightful about the great singer/writer/performer/actress then I have read in people magazine over the past 25 years. (...) (...)

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Good insight from a qualified fan-observer

Deborah Harry Platinum Blonde :BLONDIE
Cathy Che
Manufacturer: Trafalgar Square
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0233994963

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Good insight from a qualified fan-observer.......2004-05-06

Cathay Che is obviously, first and foremost, a Blondie-and more specifically a Deborah Harry-fan who is also a New York scene writer of some accomplishment. She tells the Debbie Harry story about as well as anyone other than Deb herself could. I think it presents an accurate picture of an individual far more influential and musically significant than most people in America, including Deb herself, realize.

Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, and Pete Townshend have all publicly talked about Debbie and a paragraph from any of them would have been invaluable, as would commentary from, say, cinematographer Sam Shaw (who was still alive then and in NYC) or any of the other 'old schoolers' Harry interacted with in the '70s and '80s at the tail end of their careers.

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Margaret must test her loyalty and courage when a wounded prisoner of war is brought into her Pennsylvania home in this novel of the Revolutionary era.

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An Enemy among Them.......2005-10-19

If your looking for a GREAT book, well then dont read An Enemy among them. This book is relly boring. Please just stop. Put the book down. Ok, my friend Cassandra is telling me to write this.

An Enemy.......2004-12-17

1.There is an enemy in the house and Margret doesn't know what. To do. A Red Coat is inside Margrets house and finds out, what is she to do.
2. My opinion the book sucks, theres no action, it is the saddest book there ever was, not sad as in crying, sad as in bad.
3.The theme don't let strangers into your home.
4. I recommend this book to the people who likes historic books.

Stuck Behind Enemy Lines.......2004-12-16

1. This book is about this girl named Margret. She works at the hospital and she cares for a Hessian named Christian. When Christian goes into the war, he injured Margret's brother John. Will John Forgive Christian? Will Margret and Christian get married? Read it to find out!!
2. I think this book is AWESOME!!!!!
3. Irony is a story element for this book because it makes you think that John would kill Christian, but he doesn't
4. I would recommend this book to people who like war books.

Pretty Good.......2003-10-25

This book was not too bad, infact it was a joy reading it. It kept me reading throughout the late hours of the night. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes history and war books. I'm not saying that this book it full of action and war though, there were parts which were not such a joy reading. But, still most of the book was good, in my opinion.

An enemy Among Them.......2002-01-29

This was an interesting, good book. It's a little boring in the beginning, between pgs 1-10, but you get hooked after that. It's about mainly Margaret Volpert, and another main character is Private Christian Molitor, a Hessian. Margaret's family has a son, later 2, in the American army though they are German. When Margaret meets Christian, she sees how both sides' boys are the same, neither are evil. They're just fighting for their country, doing what they're told, what they believe in. But Christian has a secret that could turn Margaret against him...

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Really Good
Josie Book Is Like Movie
Wonderful Book

Josie and the Pussycats
Cathy East Dubowski , Jacqueline Jarosz , Deborah Kaplan , and Harry Elfont
Manufacturer: HarperEntertainment
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0061032018
Release Date: 2001-04-03

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Pussycats Rock!

Josie and the Pussycats are back and happening! Signed to a major record label, Josie and her musical mates instantly shoot to the top of the charts. It's a dream come true, but their overnight success seems just a little bit fishy. Now they're about to discover where they fit into a fiendish record company mogul's evil scheme for world domination. Will the rocking girlfriends let justice take a back seat to fame? Or will Josie and the Pussycats be able to stop a mad villain who's determined to turn kids everywhere into pop-cult zombies?

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Really Good.......2004-09-05

I read this book when my parents told me I couldn't see the movie. It was very good. Josie and her band want to make it big but aren't that good. But this record guy finds them carting their stuff home (after either another failed gig or being chased by the cops, IM not sure it's been a while since I read the book) and almost runs them over. This guy is looking for a new band (his old band "died from a "mysterious" plane crash" (not!)) so he can manipulate the masses of teens into buying products. At first the girls find it a little weird but soon want in. But Josie becomes the star of the band and is also manipulated by the subliminal messages in her CD. Soon they figure it out and refuse to play at a concert. I'm not going to tell you the ending, but someone comes to their rescue.

It's a really good book and you should read it. At the end of the book it gives you some pictures and also ways to be a girl band (or something)

So pick it up and unless you didn't like the movie you'll like the book.

Josie Book Is Like Movie.......2001-06-19

I really enjoyed the book. I would not reccomend it to a person who saw the movie and did not like it. The book is obviousley almost exactly like the movie. Still a true josie And The Pussycats fan will enjoy the book. Also included inside the book is four pages (front and back) of pictures. At the end there is a section about how to be a rock star. I suggest it to most kids.

Wonderful Book.......2001-04-16

This is a wonderful book for anyone who has or has not seen the movie. If you haven't seen the movie, this book tells you what the movie is all about. You can practically see the movie in your head as the scenes are played out on the pages before you. If you saw the movie, this is a great way for you to remember the movie and to relive it all over again! This is a great book for anyone who loves Josie & the Pussycats or is unsure of what the movie is about.

The Thin Disguise: Understanding and Overcoming Anorexia & Bulimia

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The Thin Disguise: Understanding and Overcoming Anorexia & Bulimia
Deborah Newman , Harry Beverly , and Frank Minirth
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson Inc
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0785277161

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The Thin Disguise offers a firm helping hand to all women who want to beat the odds. The doctors of the Minirth Clinic and the Minirth Meier New Life Clinic, who wrote" Love Hunger", the best-selling book on food addiction, reveal the proven, multifaceted program used in their clinics for recovery from bulimia and anorexia. They give you the facts about the harmful effects of these disorders on a woman's physical health, along with insight into the psychological principles that cause women to diet and exercise compulsively. A plan is included to help establish healthy eating patterns along with the spiritual insight necessary for healing.

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Those Who Came Before.....
Ethereal Illustrations make book

Aunt Claire's Yellow Beehive Hair
Deborah Blumenthal
Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1589804910

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Aunt Claire had a throaty voice and sharp red-painted nails and was famous for the magical beauty creams cooked up in her kitchen. Annie has known about her only from stories told around the family dinner table and from a purple ribbon Aunt Claire wore around her yellow beehive hair. In this tender picture book tribute to families, Annie collects photos, letters, mementos, and stories to create a special scrapbook.

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Those Who Came Before............2002-04-10

"Whenever our whole family gets together for someone's birthday, or a holiday, or just for the fun of it, we share a big meal, then eat and eat desserts. After we're so stuffed we can't eat any more, the grown-ups push back their chairs from the table and talk and talk about the people I see only in old pictures." Annie wants to know all about her family, the ones who came before and are now gone; the family she sees only in pictures. "I want to reach into the past and bring them closer to me." So one rainy day, Grandma Marilyn and Great-Aunt Ray take Annie on a "memorabilia" hunt. They search through the house, in closets and drawers, shoe boxes and albums, and find pieces of family history, letters, passports, pressed flowers, pictures, war medals, hair ribbon, even wedding lace. Once it's all laid out on the big kitchen table, Grandma and Great-Aunt Ray begin their story. "Oh, Annie, that was Aunt Claire's purple hair ribbon. She had yellow beehive hair, sharp red painted nails, and a deep, throaty voice....." Deborah Blumenthal has written a lovely, warm, and captivating story that begs to be read aloud, and shared by the entire family. Her eloquent text is evocative and entertaining, and beautifully complemented by Mary Grandpre's bold, vibrant, and expressive illustrations. Together word and art paint a vivid and engaging portrait of all the intriguing and colorful characters that make each family unique and special. Perfect for youngsters 5 and older, Aunt Claire's Yellow Beehive Hair is a wonderful way to open discussions, begin to introduce your own family's history, and most importantly, keep it alive.

Ethereal Illustrations make book.......2002-01-16

Mary GrandPre, of Harry Potter fame for illustrating both covers and inside spots, make this book stand out as a wonderful walk through the past. Annie searching to know more about her past learns a lot about her family from her Aunt. Ethereal visuals combined with Deborah Blumenthal's detailed story, the books plays out like a magically brilliant dream. In the end, children will enjoy looking at the stunning visuals, GrandPre showers with each page. A wonderful lap books for children who enjoy hearing stories about family and their past.

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Golden "Blonde"
Che's book is the best Deborah Harry volume so far
Bring a Book!...oh....wait a minute....you already did

Deborah Harry: Platinum Blonde
Cathay Che
Manufacturer: Andre Deutsch
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Picture This: Debbie Harry and Blondie by Mick Rock

ASIN: 0233999574

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Debbie Harry became one of the biggest stars of the Eighties with her sensationally popular band Blondie, and she continues to have an enormous influence on today’s performers. Cathay Che looks at the life and career of the multi-talented pop goddess.

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Golden "Blonde".......2005-02-23

Che's book is the best Deborah Harry volume so far.......2004-05-10

My disappointments with Che are few: she gives superfans and scenesters a great deal of space, rather than engaging individuals who really should be regarded as Harry's peers and colleagues. Che appears to have made no effort to have spoken with, say, Madonna, or Deb's 'Heavy' costar (and former MM roommate) Shelley Winters. (Che's assertion, in the book's first chapter, of the feelings "all men" have for the original blond bombshell is also mildly offensive to me.)

Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, and Pete Townshend have all publicly talked about Debbie and a paragraph from any of them would have been invaluable, as would commentary from, say, cinematographer Sam Shaw (who was still alive then and in NYC) or any of the other 'old schoolers' Harry interacted with in the '70s and '80s at the tail end of their careers.

Bring a Book!...oh....wait a minute....you already did.......2002-09-17

Fans of Blondie and Debbie Harry will no doubt enjoy this book, although it doesn't probe very deeply or reveal many new facets to the Blondie story. Cathay Che's literary voice is a bit too gaga for its subject for my taste. She oversells it a bit in other words, which makes it feel like fan magazine stuff and not really a biography for adults. Still, it's Debbie and Blondie, so even a poorly written book is better than none! Sadly however, the photo sections are very skimpy for a band whose appeal was so visual. What the market really needs now is something along the lines of "Bowie: An Illustrated Record", a coffee table book on Blondie that is mostly images by different photographers. Are you listening, Taschen?

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