A review by harry_lemon
Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words by Joni Mitchell

informative fast-paced

3.75

3.75⭐
Perfectly fine.

I'm a total fan of Joni Mitchell and was interested in this because it offered the artist's own opinion on their songs and life through their own words. However, while I feel I got a lot of interesting tidbits and factoids that gave a new dimension, by the third interview, I was sort of eyeing the door on when it would end. I love Joni as an artist, and her work is unmatched, but some of the directions of questions or parts of the interviews seemed like a throwaway. That all said, I think if you are an avid fan like me, you'll enjoy this work. 

But, a word of caution: read the book, don't listen to it as an audiobook; it got very repetitive very quickly and I was sort of tired hearing the narrator repeat lyrics of Joni's songs (which obviously is not her fault). I'm sure it makes more of an impact on the page versus hearing a speaker repeat song lyrics like they're poetry. 

Although, some may enjoy that. Oh well, to each their own...