so-soA pleasant meander. Sort of an extended interview/conversation, using individual songs to talk either specifically about the story behind the song or some aspect of Dolly's life.
I'll admit to wishing the production had been a bit different: the beginnings of songs start the various conversations, and maybe it's a rights or length concern, but after a while you just find yourself wishing you could hear the whole song 1/?
pickI‘ve never been a country fan and could probably only name a handful of Dolly Parton songs, but I‘ve always loved her sense of humor, spunky attitude, and I‘ve always believed she was incredibly intelligent. The ways she‘s poured into her community and the children she‘s impacted through her Imagination Library are inspiring. This is a quick book and it‘s delightful on audio.
so-soI love the inspiring message of this book, but it had just a tad too many YA tropes for my liking.
I think if I read this as a teenager I would have been much more impressed.
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The other somewhat jarring feature were the interstitials not in Dolly's voice - introducing changes in subject matter that are not fronted by a different song. I can understand the organizing principle behind sectioning off and clearly labelling such shifts in topics but the voice doing so 1w
And on the really, really subjective end of critiques, evidently this awesome person is a lot more religious/spiritual than I knew and God/gospel talk is just distancing to this atheist reader. 1w