Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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The First Notes: The Story of Do, Re, Mi by Julie Andrews

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I know one thing about music: what I like and what I don’t like. And, granted that can be eclectic (Jim Byrnes anyone? How about Queen? Elvis? Ella? Bowie? Fraggles?) But I never thought about the “how to” of it. After all, why bother? I knew I liked it, but why should I learn about Do, Re, Mi? It’s just a silly song in a fun musical movie right?  Well, yes, but it’s a lot more, too. While I still do not know a lot […]

The real Mary Poppins

Song After Song: The Musical Life of Julie Andrews by Julie Hedlund

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Who has not watched Disney’s 1960s Mary Poppins? Or Sound of Music? And who of us did not want to sing like Julie Andrews? Well, even though it sounds like she popped out of the womb doing these kind of things, her life was anything but simple. First, her mother traveled (she was a piano player) and was away a lot. Second, her parents would divorce, and she would eventually be sent to live with her mother and stepfather in war torn London. And then […]

Where In The World is… Julie Andrews?

Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews

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The hills are alive with the sound of Julie Andrews’ memoir! Andrews starts with a prologue summarizing her previous memoir, Home, in which she wrote about her early years. Home Work then takes off around the time of Mary Poppins. Soon after, came The Sound of Music. I love learning behind the scenes info, and Andrews paints a detailed picture of her experiences. With this level of detail, I was nervous that once I read through The Sound of Music, I would be bored to tears. While I love Julie Andrews, I […]

“A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.”

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I love Julie Andrews. I realize that’s a controversial statement, but stick with me here. I think she’s beautiful and charming and so very talented. I specifically love Mary Poppins Julie Andrews and Sound of Music Julie Andrews (alongside another childhood favorite, young Christopher Plummer in a uniform) and The Princess Diaries Julie Andrews. She’s just so fucking classy. “Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly […]



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