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Summary: Inspiration Station, Spellbound Express
Review: Della Reese is like a streetcar to ecstatic experience. She knows the way to abundance consciousness and she will stop at whatever stop you need to get you there, because it's on her route. This is no airy fairy lady. She tells it totally like it is in this earthy, raw, absolutely beautiful and hilarious tale of her life adventure from Detroit's "Black Bottom" slums to the hills of Bel Air. If you have ever felt excluded or ridiculed, had a jones for the wrong person or the wrong lifestyle, suffered a broken heart or known there was something great in you, no matter what anyone had to say about it, her words will pick you up and put you right on the trolley! Like her early mentor, Mahalia Jackson, she fills herself with God-Essence and breathes it out sweetly and powerfully, right to your center, taking you on a trip to exactly the place she wants for you, which is home. Where you are comfortable in your own body and where you know that you are loved. So, I guess that makes her an "angel", her loving word for people who appear with exactly what you need when you need it, like Nat King Cole, Ed Sullivan and many others did for her. In reading her account, it naturally makes you more aware of how people in your life serve as angels, even when you aren't aware of it at the time. I first Della's voice when I was a hurtin' little kid, hanging on for dear life, literally, seeking solace in in art and music.
Her jazz voice got me and got me good. Her author's voice, like her voice in gospel, blues, "pop", TV and ministry, it is a voice that tells you of the WHOLE journey from despair to full-out happiness. And that telling causes resonance, so you can feel it, remember it and find your own way to it. Read this juicy, juicy book! "Period. The end."
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Summary: Each one of us is somebody else's angel.
Review: Della Reese's delightful rendering of her life and the people in it (her angels along the way) was a reality check for me. Her appreciation of those in her life who weren't so wonderful to her, but from whom she learned important lessons, put a healthy perspective back in my life. We must be open to realizing this. Now, each person who comes into my life is an angel for me...even if it is not a "touched by an angel," picture perfect relationship. It makes life a whole lot easier and pleasant. Besides the lesson I learned from Miss Reese, it was a fun book to read. Having watched many episodes of "Touched By An Angel," as I read the book I could hear and picture Miss Reese telling her story. This is a must for any "Touched By an Angel" fan.
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Summary: Though it all, she made it!
Review: I really enjoyed this book, I love Della Reese, but you just dont know until you read her book what all she has been through and things she had to over come to be where she is today, She is a remarkable woman. I know if anyone loves The show Touched by An Angel and Della Reese this book is one they should read its a book thats hard to put down!
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Summary: Wonderful Inspirational Biography That Teaches, Too.
Review: I remember Della Reese from back when she was a regular on Chico on the Man. Actually, I must remember her from before then, because I remember as a teenager the horror and disgust I felt when she was on Merv Griffin or some talk show like that talking about the glass door she walked through and needing 800 stitches; I remember because not long after that, I nearly walked through a screen door myself. (Mother decided at that point that perhaps I should be tested for eyeglasses; it was discovered that I was badly nearsighted...but I digress.) Anyway, I recommend this book to anyone who wants a concrete example of how God guides a person if you let Him...there is a tendency to take what a celebrity says with a grain of salt, because of the nature of the business where people willingly lie to promote themselves...I feel this woman speaks the truth as she knows it. This is the first biography I've read in a long time where I had a hard time putting it down. It's written in straight, no-nonsense language, Della's language, and I applaud the choice of co-writer because she did an excellent job of staying out of the book; unfortunately she's not given much credit other than a line or two in the acknowledgement...but as an amateur editor I know that sometimes you can be so caught up in grammar and political correctness that you lose the spirit of the piece...not so here. I wish Ms. Reese would write another book...one that sort of puts these and instructs the rest of us on how we might be as strong as she is...one that puts her ministry in writing for the benefit of those of us who cannot come to LA and study with her at her church!
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Summary: Best bio I have read!
Review: Inspirational, funny, sad, poignant - everything we all experience and more in Ms. Reese's book. A must read and a must HAVE for your book collection.
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Summary: Best bio I have read!
Review: Inspirational, funny, sad, poignant - everything we all experience and more in Ms. Reese's book. A must read and a must HAVE for your book collection.
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Summary: Up Close & Personal--Della Tells About Marvelous, Crazy Life
Review: This book is wonderful! I love Touched by an Angel, and am a big fan of Della's (Have to buy some of her music someday!) This book really captures Della's effervescent, full-of-life, no-nonsense style. It reads just as if Della was sitting right there in your living room talking right to you. It is full of amazing stories and straight talk about her ups and downs professionally and personally, and the one thing that shines through so very clearly is her powerful and strong faith in God and how He and the human "angels" in her life have brought her through. You really feel you get to know her--her personality sparkles in every chapter. I loved this book.
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