Autobiography

Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925 | Vera Brittain

Deep sigh 😔

This was written in the 1930s - but switch out some of the words and it sounds remarkably similar to….well, you know.

Ruthiella 🙁🙁🙁 5d

Dilara 100% agree! 😔 5d

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thebacklistbook

I Am Ozzy | Ozzy Osbourne

I have so many books on hold right now it's not even funny! Somewhere between 8-11 titles including the tagged.

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BookwormAHN

I Am Ozzy | Ozzy Osbourne

Final thoughts. How did you enjoy the book? Any favorite songs? Or memories?
Thanks for joining in 🖤🦇🖤
#PrinceOfDarknessReadalong
@BethM @AmyG @TheBookHippie @Deblovestoread @kelli7990 @AllDebooks @Jjaxn95 @peaKnit

TheBookHippie I liked this. Reading it brought back floods of memories from my younger years. I saw Ozzyfest (80s)in my late teens- life changing. We were going to go in 2016 but I got sick 😑. I adored watching his final concert. (edited) 2w

Deblovestoread Hi Ashley, you can remove me from your tag list. I never got to this one. Maybe someday. 💙 2w

AmyG I loved this book. You heard Ozzy‘s voice throughout. I only really listened to Black Sabbath, not his solo albums. And I found him so very endearing. How do you not like Ozzy? A decent but WILD guy. 2w

peaKnit I enjoyed re-reading this one. I saw him in the early 90‘s with a group of guys, including now husband - our own concert club. His solo career started during my weird angsty middle school time, perfect timing. Crazy Train, Over the Mountain, Bark at the moon 🎼 2w

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BookwormAHN

I Am Ozzy | Ozzy Osbourne

I loved this show. It was brilliant. Ozzy didn't seem to have enjoyed it so much & I don't blame him. I couldn't do a reality show. I hate cameras.
Have y'all seen it? Any reality star dreams?
#PrinceOfDarknessReadalong
@BethM @AmyG @TheBookHippie @Deblovestoread @kelli7990 @AllDebooks @Jjaxn95 @peaKnit

TheBookHippie I caught it a few times. Not much TV in these years I was working a ton and raising my daughter. I could never and I don‘t generally enjoy reality TV. 2w

AmyG We loved watching the show. My kids would auote lines from it all the time. Clean your room! “I don‘t have to, I‘m the Prince of Darkness”. 🤣🤣🤣 2w

peaKnit My husband and I loved the show. We loved MTV reality - the real world. (Though a conservative cast member from my state is now head of transportation, what?!) Anyways, the show was fun and ridiculous. I didn‘t have kids yet, but I wish they could‘ve seen it with us lol! I always wondered the impact on Kelly and Jack though. @AmyG we still quote that line 🤣 2w

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BookwormAHN

I Am Ozzy | Ozzy Osbourne

As Ozzy points out Suicide Solution wasn't on that album nor was that what the sound is about.
Is anyone right to blame the musicians? Personally, I prefer sad music when I'm sad, because I can relate to it & I don't always want to be cheered up. What is your preference?
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@BethM @AmyG @TheBookHippie @Deblovestoread @kelli7990 @AllDebooks @Jjaxn95 @peaKnit

TheBookHippie No. Do musicians get blamed for music played and babies get made? The cologne he wore, the books etc etc the answer is inside the person. Ozzy and his music saved so many lives too. Concerts were so good for misfits 🙂 but that was a shared love experience. Is music powerful- yes. Ultimately it‘s still the person who decides. 2w

TheBookHippie Also. I think it was a ruse. To blame the music. Kinda like another situation we just had here. 2w

AmyG Suicide is a horror and I think some look for something to blame….hence the music. There are so many factors, was music one of them? Maybe. But not the cause. 2w

peaKnit Suicide leave those behind so ruined, I think they grab at any possibility of blame. It may depend on the person. A sensitive or mentally ill person could crawl a bit into the lyrics and believe they are speaking to them? 2w

peaKnit Music can be something to relate to, to feel joy, nostalgia. @thebookhippie I agree, his concerts were a place for the misfits to meet🥰 a cousin and I bonded over Ozzy, she was a drug addict and I was a bookworm, anything is possible. And working in corrections, I‘ve quoted some wild music to relate to peeps lol! (edited) 2w

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BookwormAHN

I Am Ozzy | Ozzy Osbourne

This accident was so incredibly horrible & terrifying.
How does someone process this? Poor Randy he sounded like a really good guy & he was incredibly talented.
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@BethM @AmyG @TheBookHippie @Deblovestoread @kelli7990 @AllDebooks @Jjaxn95 @peaKnit

TheBookHippie I remember this so vividly… such an unnecessary tragedy… we were all just gutted. He was a decent man - kid really.. from all accounts he was a good person. Horrific and senseless. 2w

AmyG I vaguely remembered this. Such a tragedy. 2w

peaKnit I remember this and also read Rudy Sarzo‘s memoir. He described this from his perspective also. Randy was a prodigy, and had some classical future goals. Horribly sad. I can‘t imagine how haunted Ozzy and his crew must have been after this. I wanted more from Ozzy‘s memoir on this incident - it shaped the future. (edited) 2w

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BookwormAHN

I Am Ozzy | Ozzy Osbourne

He bit the head off a bat, a dove, and peed on the Alamo. Ozzy has done some insane things.
Do you think drugs & alcohol were solely to blame, or did reputation become too real at times?
#PrinceOfDarknessReadalong
@BethM @AmyG @TheBookHippie @Deblovestoread @kelli7990 @AllDebooks @Jjaxn95 @peaKnit

TheBookHippie A little of both here I think. It‘s hard to comprehend that kind of life. It‘s like stupid things you do in a group in your late teens and early twenties except you didn‘t have an audience. 2w

AmyG I also think both. He was a character. Then add drugs and alcohol. That he survived for so long is some kind of miracle. 2w

peaKnit I think drugs and alcohol would obliterate his conscience to allow him to do whatever, whenever. Seems an awful way to live. It was also a way to get people to leave, it seems he sabotaged many relationships. 2w

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arlenefinnigan

The Thing About Prague ...: How I gave it all up for a new life in Europe's most eccentric city | Rachael Weiss

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This is a very enjoyable account of what sounds like an absolute mad time in the writer's life. She describes, with charm and good humour, her attempts to build a new life in Prague; working for a eccentric (to put it politely) hotel owner; making friends in the expat and synagogue communities; briefly being something of a literary star....

arlenefinnigan attempting to see the dawn on the Charles Bridge on what may or may not have been the summer solstice; hiking with an aspiring cannibal; and an endless battle with exasperating bureaucracy.

(We're flying out to Prague tomorrow. I hope the shopkeepers aren't quite as grumpy as she describes them.) 2w

CarolynM Enjoy your trip! 2w

arlenefinnigan @CarolynM thanks! It's beautiful. 2w

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BookwormAHN

I Am Ozzy | Ozzy Osbourne

I've always loved them as a couple. Even though he was still married when they got together.
But this quote is everything ❤️
What do y'all think?
#PrinceOfDarknessReadalong
@BethM @AmyG @TheBookHippie @Deblovestoread @kelli7990 @AllDebooks @Jjaxn95 @peaKnit

TheBookHippie I think they were destiny for each other and although I‘m not always her biggest fan, I think she kept him alive in more ways than one. Her sitting on stage off to the side in his finally concert just watching him gutted me at the time and to think of it now I‘m not sure how she‘ll live without him. 2w

AmyG They had quite the interesting marriage. I, too, think they were made for each other and they deeply loved the other. 2w

peaKnit I think they matched each other‘s intensity - love and fight HARD. I also think she needed to run the show and he needed her too. 2w

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