When I Grow Up

This is a very entertaining and thoughtfully-written book about Juliana Hatfield as a work in progress. It is a book about someone caught in the middle: Someone who has made it big enough that everybody knows her name, but not Elton John, private-jet big. Someone who has enough neuroses to make finding love a challenge, but not enough to create drug-and alcohol-fueled self-destruction. It is apparently an honest book that... Read Full Review

When I Grow Up is a pleasure to read, mostly because it offers the opportunity to spend some time in the mind of a thoughtful, passionate musician who has reached a crossroads in which she must decide whether and why to continue to make music, years past her big hit. The memoir proceeds in two alternating threads, one a city-by-city diary from a single tour, the other a personal and professional history, in short chapters... Read Full Review

This book is simply a must for any Hatfield fan; like her music, she manages to be funny and heart breaking all at the same time. Every other chapter is a diary/chronicle of a tour from several years ago - in between snippets of various high/low points in her prolific career. She remains incredibly perceptive to all that's going on around her; her descriptions (straight down to the tacky Cracker Barrel's and less than comfortable... Read Full Review

I got this on a whim - I was somewhat a fan of Juliana Hatfield's back in my college days. I had a couple of her albums. I didn't really follow her career after that. If you were into 'alt rock' in the early-to-mid '90s you might remember songs like "My Sister" or "Universal Heartbeat." I'm glad I read this, it is an excellent memoir that accomplishes two very important things. First, it inspired me to check out more of... Read Full Review

Most of us have thought about what it would be like to be a famous singer: The attention. The glamour. The money. The power. Singer/Songwriter, Juliana Hatfield got a small taste of that life for herself. In her recent memoir, When I Grow Up, Miss Hatfield recounts the year in which she first toured the United States with her then newly formed band, Some Girls. You'll see what it was really like to be on that tour:... Read Full Review