Every single time I opened this memoir, I wanted to desperately soak up every single delicious anecdote - be it personal, musical, or randomly comical.
I took my time with this book. I wanted to read each page and truly appreciate her willingness to share her intimate life with such a wide audience.
It did not disappoint.
I likely wrote over 50 quotes from this book: even if they were simple notes of which performances of hers to look up, or to find which songs she mentions that she loved or worked on so that I could have a glimpse into her early musical endeavors. (I even found some of these performances recorded on youtube from when she was a child).
This is the review I left on Goodreads:
Beautifully and candidly written. Julie Andrews continues to seem unaware of the presence and positive impact she has made the world over. Brilliant and humble, talented and always self-critical; never feeling as though she quite got anything right, and then her passion for music and all things regarding authentic performance comes out wondrously in this novel.
Some of the passages are almost comically matter-of-fact - because all of the amazing experiences she has ARE, in fact, her day-to-day life. For so many of us who are in awe of her talent, her life is extraordinary - however difficult. For her, it seems, it was simply how it was.
Her writing is candid, humble, always proper, and filled with musical passion and fortitude.
Pretty perfect.
I am very much looking forward to reading her sequel: Home Work.
I love My Musical Life.
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