Book Review
May. 18th, 2019 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariHunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
by Carrie Brownstein
This memoir covers Brownstein's youth and her time in Sleater-Kinney, a great band that I somehow missed during their heyday of the later 90s and early 2000s.I'll admit that I found the part about her childhood and adolescence a little slow, even as I thoroughly identified with her as a child of the 80s with a somewhat dysfunctional family who grew into a smart, creative, yet awkward teenager interested in music well outside the mainstream. Once Brownstein started getting involved in music, though, the book really picked up and completely engrossed me.
I loved the way Brownstein talks about being in a band, both the details of how songwriting, recording, and touring work, and the personal experience of all that. Her writing about it all is intimate and personal and really made me able to experience it all vicariously. It was such a pleasure to get an inside view of the kind of band and music scene that I have always loved.
by Carrie Brownstein
This memoir covers Brownstein's youth and her time in Sleater-Kinney, a great band that I somehow missed during their heyday of the later 90s and early 2000s.I'll admit that I found the part about her childhood and adolescence a little slow, even as I thoroughly identified with her as a child of the 80s with a somewhat dysfunctional family who grew into a smart, creative, yet awkward teenager interested in music well outside the mainstream. Once Brownstein started getting involved in music, though, the book really picked up and completely engrossed me.
I loved the way Brownstein talks about being in a band, both the details of how songwriting, recording, and touring work, and the personal experience of all that. Her writing about it all is intimate and personal and really made me able to experience it all vicariously. It was such a pleasure to get an inside view of the kind of band and music scene that I have always loved.
