Imagine This: Growing Up with My Brother, John Lennon

This book will make you laugh and cry.So much has been written about John Lennon's life before he was a Beatle and it is great to know this book tells the whole truth,good or bad.The joy shines through and you really can feel the love Julia Baird has for her late brother and you can feel the pain,sadness,and anger she has for the lose of their mother and the lose of John.

I found Julia Baird's book on her half-brother, John Lennon, well-written and very enjoyable. I've read dozens of books on John and the Beatles, and hers provided a unique perspective which definitely humanized this "icon" in a way few others have. These days it is hard to find anything but the highly-sanitized, Yoko-centric version of John, but this look into his childhood, adolescence and later years has a ring of truth to it. He lived more than half of his life before Yoko, and this book reminds us of that.