The Woman I Am

I have enjoyed Helen Reddy's music for many years. I was quite interested in purchasing this book and learning about what type of a person she really is. In many ways, the book did answer my questions; however, much of what I wanted to read about was left out. The Midnight Special, Airport 1975, her friendship with Olivia Newton-John and several of her hit songs were not even mentioned. She skimmed over her 70's very quickly. Maybe this time period was difficult for her talk about because of her parents' deaths or the way her record company treated her when her records were not as hugely successful as they once were. Anyhow, it still was an enjoyable book from someone who brought many a great deal of musical pleasure in the 1970's.

I thought this book was Excellent. Helen takes us through her life from a little girl to her life as a grandmother now. She talks about her failed marriages and her kids as well as her hit songs and how they came about. if you are a Helen Reddy fan you should read this book you will learn a lot about who she really is and how she feels about her life in the spotlight good book Helen!

I read this book in 2 days. I was fasinated! I have waited for 30 years to read about Helen. I have loved her music for 30 years. I was glad to know that she seems to be a loving and warm woman. The best thing she said that she was glad that her children turned out to be good and kind people. They must have learned it somewhere! As for that unkind review a few up, he obviously didn't read the end of the book. The part where she says , "You are what you think about." and "KINDNESS BEGETS KINDNESS:.

I am so grateful to this generous performer who gave the world so much first rate crafty sophisticated beautiful music that she made her own - there is no debate that they (She?) broke the mold that she was cast from. Helen earned the first Grammy given to an Australian, that I didn't know until today.As well she had a dozen songs reach the top forty in an era not so long ago when radio dominated the media , and it made you feel good to listen to "pop" music. High class with no airs, the author did us all a service when she wrote this reflective heartfelt recollection of her experience as an artist in the 20th century, a working mother who held high standards, worked prodigiously , and left the world a legacy- and truly doesnt have an ego to protect, She reveals herself to be vulnerable and insightful all the way. I noticed that like many artists, she doesn't have much to say about the emotional or intellectual stuff of the songs- which is ineffable, personal, and can be felt and understood only by listening to the music itself. There is much in this book to be appreciated, layers of history, vignettes of another time, in another place.One feels the members of her family peaking through- almost sitting beside this reader.Helen's love of the richness of geneology and history is so kindly revealed, as is her enthusiasm, kindness, compassion, and what I consider leading edge thought. Right on sister!

Helen Reddy's bio is beautiful, honest and deeply spiritual. From a woman of great inner power and valor comes not only a wonderful singing voice, but a voice and mind that inspires in the pages of The Woman I Am. There is a great reward here for fans and those just hearing Helen roar for the first time. Congrats Miss Reddy! Darrin Owens