"Janis Joplin: Rise up Singing" by Ann Angel
Angel, Ann. (2010). Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing. New York, NY: Amulet Books. ISBN: 978-0-8109-8349-6 I’m typically not a fan of biographies. They have a tendency to be a little dry and to sugarcoat some of the facts to favor the subject. This is not your standard biography! It is full of pictures, both black-and-white and color, and is brutally honest about who Janis Joplin was and what she went through. Before, I wanted to party with her. Now, I want to give her a hug and tell her its ok to just "be." Before this book, of course, I knew who Janis Joplin was. I knew she was a smoking, drinking, drug-using rock icon. This book introduces Janis as a slightly rebellious frizzy-haired high school student in Glee Club. It turns out, she spent her entire (short) career feeding off of the love from her fans because she felt misunderstood and unloved in her teen years. She turned to drugs and alcohol to keep “earning” their love and it ended