Wonderkid ebooks I ve long been a fan of folk singer John Wesley Harding This is one of several books written under his real name A slow start made me think he could write songs but not books I was wrong Fun and bittersweet story for anyone who wanted to be in a band and every parent who tried to find music that they liked as much as their kids SteveSongs for me Where is the movie version Fiction Historical Fiction LGBT This book was so great I love books that take a peek inside of the music industry and this one had a twist of exploring the world of kindie bands aka indie alternative bands marketed at kids The story is mostly told from the perspective of Sweet a foster kid who stumbles literally through a window into meeting the band and ends up getting adopted by them and acting as their roadie merch boy etc I LOVED pretty much all of the characters in this book the story was interesting with a satisfying ending and a really nice exploration of the concept of family The audiobook is well read by the author who is actually folk musician John Wesley Harding Fiction Historical Fiction LGBT I first encountered Mr Stace s novels around 2005 when Misfortune was published and followed in 2007 with By George both of which were wonderful I had enthusiastically purchased 2010 s Charles Jessold etc. Lgbt wonderkids but it felt like a slog at that time in my life and I couldn t get into it Wonderkid isn t as fanciful as its predecessors In fact it appears to be a fairly realistic representation of life as a rather extreme rock star Mr Stace AKA John Wesley Harding is in a position to know what that s all about Actually his tale reminds me a bit of singer songwriter Jann Arden s comic television series where the star is seldom treated like a star. Wonderkid strikers fc25 The writing is brilliant and the whole story radiates energy I could really feel the pain and exhaustion of long road trips the frustration of dealing with managers and marketers and the Karens of the industry and the need to blow off steam in irresponsible ways. Wonderkids football The story is narrated by a teenaged orphan who is adopted by the lead singer of the group and is a kind of responsible adult to the often childish band members The protagonist and star Blake Lear named for his favourite imaginative poets William Blake and Edward Lear reminded me a bit of John Lennon cf A Spaniard In The Works and became famous for the apparently silly lyrics and music which appealed to everyone toddlers tweens and adults Seven of his nonsense poems are appended at the back of the book The inevitable fall from the rock n roll heights results mostly from Blake taking the hit for the sins of his team mates eventually resurrecting himself as a writer of fiction in the age of J. Lgbt wonderkids K Rowling Autobiographical much I couldn t help worrying about the abundance of peanut butter in Blake s performances at a time when it seems so many children are dreadfully allergic to the substance But anaphylaxis doesn t raise its head in this story Fiction Historical Fiction LGBT all I can do is describe this as part Almost Famous part That Thing You Do and part The Family Fangit started out a bit too pretentiously written for my taste but about page 50 it picked up the pace and became a fairly entertaining read. Wonderkids school near me i d give it to people who enjoy rock memoirs and consider Almost Famous one of their favorite movies Fiction Historical Fiction LGBT I ve been a fan of Wesley Stacie s since he was John Wesley Harding I m not sure why it took me so long to read one of his novels some of my favorite songs of his tell stories like The Truth Ordinary Weekend or even July 13 1985 It may be that I was just waiting for him to write a rock and roll book which this is In Wonderkids he writes a very fun story of a band that inadvertently becomes the first kindie rock bad A very entertaining read Fiction Historical Fiction LGBT
Sold out concerts screaming fans TV shows Number Ones This is the rock and roll dream and the Wonderkids are living it But something s wrong The gigs are sold out sure but the halls are packed with little kids not sexy hipsters And that screaming It sounds wailing actually The TV appearances are PBS on Saturday morning rather than Saturday Night Live and as for Number Ones you don t want to know.
Wonderkidx xbox 360 Exposed in his impressionable youth to the absurdist literature of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear the Wonderkids lead singer songwriter and resident mad genius Blake Lear has always written lyrics as silly as they are infectious Why make sense he says when nonsense is so much fun Rock and roll has always been for the kids right This is why Blake has no objection when the band is offered a deal with the devil the Wonderkids will be rock stars adored and revered The catch Their audience will be children They will be a kindie band avant la lettre before the Wiggles and Dan Zanes were a twinkle in Raffi s eye The band takes America by storm and things go very right until they go very wrong The temptations of the road are many and the Wonderkids are big kids too.
Wonderkidq qa Narrated by Sweet a boy Blake adopts on a whim who becomes the band s disciple merch guy amateur psychologist and eventually damage control guru Wonderkidis a delirious and surprisingly touching novel of the dangers of compromise thwarted ambition and fathers and sons told with tremendous humor and energy by Wesley Stace the rare writer who is as comfortable inside a rock club as he is inside a bookstore A backstage epic of sex drugs and rock and roll but also sippy cups pillow fights and Baby Bjorns this is Almost Famous through the looking glass WonderkidFinally a book I really enjoyed and would recommend Told from the p.
Boek wonder v of a young man brought along on tour with a rising young band this is a funny story about rock n roll backstage mayhem and a completely made up but absolutely real sounding history of kiddie rock set in the 1990s not that it is overly 90s ridden No passages such as she was wearing a baby doll dress and Doc Martens while she sullenly listened to Nirvana music.
Wonderkids who didn't make it Wesley Stace is a musician who records under the name John Wesley Harding Fiction Historical Fiction LGBT Nawwww Not much to this novel I didn t really care for it though I guess it s an ok beach read if you enjoy reading about the music business This is kind of a vanilla version of a behind the music sort of story The first part of the book is backstory and it s really long The entire book is too long and I never connected with any of the characters they were all kind of flat with the exception of Blake but I found him annoying not endearing Mostly I d recommend skipping this one Fiction Historical Fiction LGBT It s been SO LONG since I ve read such a casually sexist book Lord Fiction Historical Fiction LGBT Like reading a book based on a VH1 Behind the Music episode only it s about a band you couldn t care less about Fiction Historical Fiction LGBT Jack and Blake are brothers and the first part of the story begins with them in England describing how they got into music and their aspirations as a rock and roll band They find themselves thrust into Your child s first rock band Page 88 making Everyone Music that is marketed to entertain kids and adults alike It is described as Punk for kids Punk fur kids whose parents like punk Music for kids with cool parents Top of the pops for tots Page 69 The band is made complete with the twins on rhythm section and Greg but the twins quit before the band makes a run on America and Greg quits as eloquently as possible just as soon as they get to America These deserters are replaced with Becca Fonseca nicknamed mum on bass and Curtis the non controversial dreads and diversity drummer The band is truly now for Everyone but they d all gone a bit American and the shenanigans truly begin After controversy Becca is replaced with Camille as the new bass player Black very beautiful quite serious slightly eccentric possibly gay definitely vegetarian and Christian Page 197 Camille and Curtis make up the responsible part of the band and that says something of the other half Blake has adopted Sweet our narrator during the England to America journey and fame hits the band hard the charts are risen through and toes step out of line They are a kids band after all It all falls to pieces multiple times but the band pulls through until the big bust and the big breakup Mitchell the manager quits and Andy the Damager their rep from the record company is none too pleased with the whole affair Blake goes to jail goes solo goes sane and insane Then the big finale I want to be a musician when I grow up Mum Well son you can t do both Page 160.
Wonderkid strikers ea fc 25 Wonderkids could be the novelized version of This Is Spinal Tap It all happened It never happened The truth is spit out all over the pages and Wesley Stace continuously impresses with stories that are too detailed not to have happened but too entertaining to be true In the beginning as a rookie rock and roll fan amateur musician and reader I was suckered into believing Wonderkids was a biography Blowing through the final pages and looking up some of the facts to corroborate some of the unbelievable details I lean toward the other side this is fiction This is fiction so well documented that it has to have some truth.
Wonder books The author Wesley Stace is himself a musician and I would like to imagine that some of the capers in the story and the personalities in the characters are built from his own personal memory bank and imagination.
Wonderkid cm fifa 22 Wonderkids was such a winding story with so many characters and moments that I had to take some notes to help me organize my own thoughts and get a feel for the timeline of the band The reader gets a good chunk into the book before the narrator is revealed in his own right as Ed Sweet Before this sweet introduction the reader is given first hand details on two of the main characters Did I mention that there are quite a few main characters Characters with full personalities and whims that are such an entertainment for the reader.
Wonderkidq qa I was fascinated by Blake as a person one of the main characters He was given many simple descriptions yet remained a complex character given to his own moodiness He was in essence a real person with real faults and character flaws He had his good days and bad days good decisions and bad decisions Blake grew from rock aspirations to nonsensical story teller songwriter to moody musician His character was dynamic and molded by his experiences and decisions during his time as a Wonderkidder He adopted Sweet who was 10 years his junior He loved to hang out with the kids of his audience after his shows Blake is like the pied piper children flock on and around him and are entranced He entertains them and invites them to him He says My patience for other peoples kids is infinite Page 114 He is patient with the kids but also extremely loyal to his own family He takes the fall for his adopted son and brother without resentment or bitterness Blake is very much the parent albeit at times misguided whilst still lacking discipline for Sweet and himself Blake puts himself under fire for Sweet without a second thought as parents do for their children.
Wonderkids who didn't make it Our lovely narrator Sweet is the undirected teen who can t help but get into trouble Sweet s Hamartia if his fault could even be called that is than just sugary treats He is misguided because of his role models poor examples in life and lack of parental discipline also known as consequences therefore his actions loom larger and larger until real life consequences kick in that affect the entire family the whole band Sweet however is blessed with the motivation and maturity unbeknownst to most teenagers and is than happy to be a handy marketing opportunity selling the band s merchandise Page 107 He later becomes what he has studied in these younger years of his a band manager.
Wonderkid ebookers I never much contemplated kids rock or kindie indie music for kids Is this a real genre of music What is rock for kids like Is it those Kidz Bop songs where kids sing rock songs in horrific A Capella versions Is it a karaoke esque version of something great dumbed down for lesser ears Censored lyrics According to Wonderkid none of these is true Rock for kids is simply rock for kids The venues might be different and the audience might include children but it is true rock According to the great Wikipedia kindie rock is a style of children s music that melds the sensibility of the singer songwriter with themes aimed at kids under 10 Children s music veterans Greg Steve and Bobby Susser introduced various forms of kindie rock to the school supply industry in the mid 70s and continue to do so within their repertoire So it does exist I felt as I was reading this novel that I was reading the history of kindie that Wonderkids was the pioneer of rock for kids rock for Everyone aka Everyone Music.
Wonderkid kindle cloud This novel is somewhat exclusive in its content and writing style it is written for an audience that enjoys the haze of being on the border of something great or for someone who was there and knows and can point and laugh with the characters saying I know them or I know that song that reference But I don t know them and I was not always sure what Wesley Stace was referring to in his reference studded novel Just like Ready Player One I still very much enjoyed the book and how well it was put together even if I didn t get all or even most of the references I understand the whole but couldn t get some of the pieces For example He didn t like the aggression in the air the kids who d stolen his baton their scruffy seven inch singles their Xeroxed fanzines their lapels full of safety pins and badges for bands whose art direction never deviated from the ransom note font Pages 10 11 It takes a moment to sink in and the whole book is full of these moments these heavy weighted sentences and thoughts that it would take a course of study to get through the 300 page book with serious clarity Perhaps Stace s audience is intelligent or up on the times than I am and perhaps you will be too but I could still enjoy the fast paced rhythm of his writing style and the fascinating story he was weaving throughout.
Wonderkid ebookers This novel makes me wonder if the life of a musician rising to fame and falling into nonexistence again is just like Stace describes Movies might exaggerate but do books Is life this glamorous According to Blake touring is Sometimes it s a bit like getting married every day eating the finest foods drinking bubbly being showered with gifts eventually you just want a day off Page 278.
Wonderkidx xbox I recommend this book for anyone who enjoys movies like Almost Famous and This is Spinal Tap or pop reference studded books with specific theme of kid rock or the music industry Fiction Historical Fiction LGBT.,
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