Melissa Etheridge

i really love her music (and seeing her in concert about 11 years ago was still the best concert - that isn't one of those multimedia performances - i've ever seen) but this is not a good book. the very best parts of it were the musical interludes or the guitar riffing she did while reading sometimes. the book itself, though, here and there had some nice insight into the songs and why she wrote them or what she was going through when she did. but other than that, there wasn't anything to show more this. it was a weird spiritual message, which in the opening scene she shares is kickstarted by taking an enormous amount of marijuana. and how she was shown that the way to live is through love; the rest of the book is kind of her trying to do this. but other than this spiritual epiphany, there really wasn't anything in this book that wasn't in the tabloids or that someone with very cursory knowledge of her past wouldn't already know.

i was annoyed by the spiritual tone so maybe was put off by it from the get-go, but other than the music in the audio version, i don't really see value in this. show less

This was another book I picked up unexpectedly. Even more unexpectedly I could hardly put it down. Not that this is the best written autobiography ever but ME recalls her story in a very down-to-earth and engaging way - without really holding back on challenging memories.

What was also most interesting was that ME provides a lot of context to her music and many background stories to songs.

An excellent read.

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I have been a Melissa Ethridge fan for many years. This audiobook shows the growth path she has taken in this human experienced, We are only a month apart in age so many of her questions were very relevant to me. I would absolutely recommend LISTEING to the audiobook as Melissa reads and plays which was really inspiring.

Rock singer Melissa Etheridge has been the poster child for celebrity lesbians since she came out in the early 1990s; that her sexual orientation had been an open secret for some time, and that her songs carry a rock-solid, almost traditional Midwestern vibe, enabled her to avoid most of the opprobrium usually dished out to well-known homosexuals. Her career has included Grammy awards, a performance at a gay inaugural ball for President Clinton, and outspoken advocacy for gay rights. From show more its opening pages, where she reveals the childhood physical and sexual abuse she received from her older sister, THE TRUTH IS... is a sometimes harrowing but always honest account of a life fraught with both difficulty and triumph. show less