Chelsey

Chelsey

Chelsey Shannon

HCI Teens

$7.95

August 2009

FTC: This is a library book. I am not being compensated in any manner for my review.

Total grade: B

Total rating: 13+

Summary:

Chelsey was dealth the unthinkable.

When Her Only Surviving Parent, her beloved father, was violently murdered days before her fourteenth birthday, Chelsey's life was forever changed. As she was forced to come to terms with a new home life, a new school . . . a new identity as an orphan, Chelsey struggled to make sense of her personal tragedy. Yet she found a way to flourish despite all the odds.

"I thought of myself in a new light: a girl, newly fourteen, standing in her dead father's study, all in black, a single tear streaming down her cheek. I was alone. My family told me again and again I was not, but without him, I was. I was no longer anyone's child."

Because Truth Is More Fascinating Than Fiction

My Thoughts:

There was something about this book that I just couldn’t connect with. Recently I have read a lot of autobiography like books and this was not written in a similar way at all. Maybe a new writing style is considered good by some but it just didn’t have a smooth feel to me. I think when you read someone’s life story you want it to be a smooth flow. This seemed kind of choppy to me at times.

Her life has been tragic and I applaud her for having the courage to share with the world. She is very brave and strong in ways I don’t think I could be. It is because of that, that I was able to push a lot of my dislike for her writing style aside and focus on other aspects.

I recommend this to fans of true stories.

sTORI telling

sTORI TELLING

Tori Spelling

Simon and Schuster

$24.95

February 2009

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Total grade: A

Sexual content: 10/20

Violence: 5/20

Drugs: 10/20

Underage drinking: 10/20

Swearing: 20/20

Total rating: 16+

Summary: (Barnes and Noble)

She was television's most famous virgin -- and, as Aaron Spelling's daughter, arguably its most famous case of nepotism. Portraying Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210, Tori Spelling became one of the most recognizable young actresses of her generation, with a not-so-private personal life every bit as fascinating as her character's exploits. Yet years later the name Tori Spelling too often closed -- and sometimes slammed -- the same doors it had opened.

sTORI telling is Tori's chance to finally tell her side of the tabloid-worthy life she's led, and she talks about it all: her decadent childhood birthday parties, her nose job, her fairy-tale wedding to the wrong man, her so-called feud with her mother. Tori has already revealed her flair for brilliant, self-effacing satire on her VH1 show So NoTORIous and Oxygen's Tori & Dean: Inn Love, but her memoir goes deeper, into the real life behind the rumors: her complicated relationship with her parents; her struggles as an actress after 90210; her accident-prone love life; and, ultimately, her quest to define herself on her own terms.

My Thoughts:

I have adored Tori since I was young. I remember in 3^rd grade I discovered 90210. Every weekend we were living in a trailer while my dad built our vacation home, a couple hours from where we lived. It was very boring but the show got me through. Also my favorite show ever (7^th Heaven) was developed by her dad.

Long story short I LOVED her autobiography. I recommend that everyone read this. She is so misunderstood and it’s great that she would be so honest!