
Reckless Daughter
A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
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Narrated by:
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Xe Sands
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By:
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David Yaffe
Joni Mitchell is a cultural touchstone for generations of Americans. In her heyday she released 10 experimental, challenging, and revealing albums; her lyrics captivated people with the beauty of their language and the rawness of their emotions, both deeply personal to Mitchell and universally relatable to her audience.
In this intimate biography, composed of dozens of in-person interviews with Mitchell, David Yaffe reveals the backstory behind the famous songs - from her youth on the Canadian prairie, her pre-vaccine bout with polio at age nine, and her early marriage and the child she gave up for adoption, up through the quintessential albums and love affairs, and all the way to the present - and shows us why Mitchell has so enthralled her listeners, her lovers, and her friends.
Yaffe has had unprecedented access both to Mitchell and to those who know her, drawing on interviews with childhood friends and the cast of famous characters (Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Leonard Cohen, David Crosby, and more) with whom she has crossed paths and influenced, as well as insightful analyses of her famous lyrics, their imagery and style, and what they say about the woman herself.
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Critic reviews
"Narrator Xe Sands adopts an intimate conversational tone that not only supports Yaffe's intent but pretty much sums up the era in which Mitchell shone the brightest. Sands alternately speeds up and slows down her delivery, but that only serves to keep our attention and makes it seem as though she is speaking only to us." (AudioFile)
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As for the narrator, Xe Sands has a lovely voice, but uses this "hip," world-weary intonation in ways that are irritating and sometimes silly. Also, in the beginning to the book especially, she tends to drop off at the ends of sentences. For the first two hours, I was driving with a friend and we kept turning to each other and saying: "What did she say?" About the third hour in or so, I got used to is and just went with it.
Overall, a GREAT listen.
A rich, heartbreaking book!
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Worst narrator I’ve heard on Audible.
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Interesting description of the LA Music scene
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At first, the narrator seemed perfect for the text, capturing something of Joni's speaking style and being cooly listenable. As the performance went on, however, her gravelly vocal fry became monotonous and irritating, and eventually it seemed affected. I don't know why the same delivery style was used for every character and situation, but it wore thin quickly.
I'll give the narrator kudos, though, for not mispronouncing names or words--a first in my experience with audiobooks. (If she did mispronounce a word, it didn't stay in my memory, so egregious are most narrators' mispronunciations.)
Overall, this is a very well researched and extremely interesting book about a fascinating person.
Great Story, Somewhat Aggravating Narrator
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I'm going to miss this story
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Chances
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Adequate telling with no spectacular insight
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But this book is fascinating and delightful, whether you're a Joni fan or whether you're just intrigued by creativity and genius.
Fascinating Portrait of a Complex Talent
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Portrait of an artist as a girl,
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