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Summary: Jewel Fans Will Enjoy This Book
Review: This books is a compilation of experiences and stories from Jewel's childhood up through adulthood, as well as experiences from the road. I find her childhood and upbringing in Alaska fascinating so I had a hard time putting the book down. She shares with the reader bits about her relationship with her family and friends, the glamour and gloom of being on tour, and how she became the artist she is today. As you'll read from the book you'll see her talent was in her genes. There are wonderful photographs from her childhood up through adulthood and her writing seems to come right from her heart. I really enjoyed the book and insight into her life and recommend the book to fans who enjoy Jewel's music.
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Summary: Jewel's Life and World
Review: This is a sort of autobiographical journal by Jewel. She talks about growing up in Alaska, her early beginnigs as a singer, songwriter and musician, and her life on the road on tour. Many personal anecdotes in here which Jewel fans will find interesting. You'll get a good sense of how Jewel thinks and feels about her rise to fame, and just about things in general, including past events and memories which she recounts from her life. And yes, she's very intuitive and thinks a lot. The book is illustrated throughtout with Jewel's simple and delightful little drawings. There are also lots of beautiful photos in this book.David Rehak
author of "A Young Girl's Crimes"
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Summary: Prose and poetry, set to the rhythms of life....
Review: Welcome to a world set to the ever-changing rhythms of an artist's life. Since childhood, Jewel has turned to her own short stories, vivid narratives, and starkly honest writings to revisit the past, chronicle the many characters she's encountered, and trace the intricate, unpredictable patterns of her days. In Chasing Down the Dawn, recording artist, actress, and bestselling author Jewel opens her intimate journals to create a vivid montage of the people, places, relationships, and passages that colored the life she came from and marked the last magical, turbulent, and ultimately transformational year. Drawn from her remarkable chronicle of life on the road during the Spirit World Tour, this unforgettable collection of freeze-frames captures unusual images from Jewel's childhood in Alaska, her beginnings as a struggling artist, and her challenges as a daughter, sister, and woman. Jewel paints an unblinkingly honest picture of the exceptional journey that carried her to the world's stage. Here, as if pulled from a stack of snapshots, are Jewel's moment-by-moment observations on life as she now lives it: the pleasure of sold-out performances and the pressures of her industry .. the sweetness of love and bitterness of loss ... friendship, freedom, and the small miracles we ourselves create. And herein a book that allows the reader a rare glimpse of life's turning points as if viewed from over the author's shoulder -- are Jewel's deeply personal insights on the events that shaped her understanding: her parents' divorce, her experience of poverty, the healing of her difficult relationship with her father, and the development of her unique talent. With the publication of her bestselling collection of poetry, A Night Without Armor, Jewel established herself as a light on the literary horizon. With acutely observed, elegantly written depictions of the musicians, lovers, bikers, strangers, celebrities, and characters that inhabit the singer/songwriter's world, illustrated with Jewel's own drawings and never-before-seen photographs from her family archives, Chasing Down the Dawn is more than a collection of vignettes, observations, and stories. It is a finely wrought mosaic in prose and poetry, set to the rhythms of life.
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Summary: Chasing Down the Dawn - Chasing Down Your Soul
Review: What an awesome book. You will not be able to put it down. She has a wonderful mixture of personal stories and poetry. I personally would recommend it to ANYONE!
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Summary: Another great book by Jewel...
Review: What else is there to say? She is an amazing and honest writer... some people who might not understand poetry might give this less than 4 stars... I won't mention names but if you scroll down this list of reviews you might see. Fools both. =) If you like Jewel you'll love this book. (Also see, "A night without armor")
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Summary: Wonderfully intimate...
Review: When I purchased the video "Jewel: A Life Uncommon," I was disappointed. However, I found what I was searching for in her book "Chasing Down the Dawn." This book is wonderful. Jewel demonstrates her talent for writing prose with astute observations and beautiful language. She is truly a talented writer. Part of what makes her so talented is that you can actually feel her emotions rising off the page--she writes of her childhood, the painful loss of her best friend, her relationships with both her mother and her father, and some of her family history. It is fascinating and could be fiction just as easily as nonfiction. She has truly led a unique life. Supplementing the writings of Jewel are great photographs of her and her friends, and of her when she was younger and of places she has been. I found this to be a great addition to her writing. This is a mandatory item for any Jewel fan--it will give you more insight into who she is and what she does and it is truly interesting.
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Summary: Actually won me over, sort of
Review: When she arrived on the scene, Ms. Kilcher struck me as just another of the mildly talented young women who manage to parlay their photogenicity and collection of Joni Mitchell records into a mildly successful recording career. Her baby-doll vocal delivery and trite lyrics (never trust anyone over the age of six who uses the word "pee-jays") could be intensely irritating when encountered on the radio but what the hell: to each his own. Then the mega-platinum success of her debut record summoned into being that extraordinary artifact - her "verse" collection "A Night Without Armor". (Favorite couplet: "A father and son bond / by ogling my breasts".) For everyone who enjoys watching a celebrity make a towering fool of themselves (and doesn't that describe most of us?), it was like getting a neck rub on Christmas while eating a hot fudge sundae. So you can imagine my anticipation as I approached this de facto sequel - read by the author, no less! And you know what? While I enjoyed a few snickers along the way, I actually ended the tapes liking her a little better than when I started. She was more honest than most celebrity memoirists (i.e. admitting that her looks have furthered her career), she worked diligently to accomplish her goals, and her childhood sounds rather sad and a little creepy. If she's still pretentious and self-obsessed, well, I suppose most of us were at her age.
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Summary: An Awesome book!
Review: Wow, another great book written by Jewel. I loved her poetry book, and "Chasing Down the Dawn" is just as good, if not better. It is written very well, and has vivid pictures of her family and of her old homestead. You feel very in touch with Jewel when you read this book, and you learn all about her childhood, and rise to fame. P.S. Roseanne Hodge should learn to spell and type!
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Summary: Unintentionally hilarious
Review: You can imagine future editions having the following preface: Everyone goes through a period of being convinced they can write poetry, which ends at about 17 when they realise they have no talent. Every now and again comes someone who never realises the truth. This is her story.
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