Reviews for Life Is Just What You Make It: My Story So Far

The average rating for Life Is Just What You Make It: My Story So Far based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-06-21 00:00:00 Joan Tan Donny Osmond's bio (with a helper writer P. Romanowski) was my guilty pleasure I bought for myself my last birthday. I picked it up with three other books so it wouldn't look like an important purchase. That as I started it last weekend and quickly devoured the first four chapters and found the copy I had was missing about 30 pages, so I had to go and exchange it. I was a huge fan of the Osmonds, bought all their albums, bought a special purple dress to wear to see them in concert, had their pictures taped to my bedroom walls along with David Cassidy through my youth. Adored his brother Jay too. Every page went over familiar territory, but a if with a wide angle lens, showing aspects I never noticed before. And I found the jewel in the last pages - a fragment of a universal idea rarely understood - 'the realization that failure is an experience, not a personality trait; it's a noun that applies to inanimate objects, not a word that applies to people. And one of his baker's dozen bits of advice to use as we see fit..."Remember, any dream will do" - got it!

Review # 2 was written on 2007-12-26 00:00:00 Pierre Scheuner I love biographies and this one is an exception. It was great to take a look into his feelings of events, most of which we knew about, some of which you learn about for the first time. My favorite part is Part 2 in the revised edition. I feel that extra section especially the acknowledgements (the last sentence) is a MUST READ! Amen!