Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far by Amy Grant Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far
Book Review: Lost in the pages
Summary: 5 Stars
I love to read a good book, to see how other people see life and their own. It's nice to read a good ole down-home, honest-to-goodness book. I really appreciate her writing this.Book Review: Wonderful!
Summary: 5 Stars
In Mosaic, much like in her music, Amy weaves a tapestry made up of emotions, faith, life events and struggles and leaves the reader feeling as if they too were a part of that moment in time. Amy writes just like she talks. Friendly, in a very unpretentious, colloquial style, more like you are having a conversation with her rather than reading a memoir. She welcomes us into her life and thoughts, even into the darker, more hidden corners of her self. I loved her candidness, like when she shared her battle with depression. Or her love for her family, including Vince's daughter, Jenny, when she shared her very real concerns that Jenny might never warm to her and her budding hope when that first olive branch was extended. I truly fell in love with this book and hope that anyone who has struggled with their faith or depression, with their very humanness, will read this book and discover that that is just part of being alive, and it's what you do during those struggles that makes the man (or woman.) Amy has struggled but somehow found the secret to moving forward with grace and her faith (and family) firmly intact. I just finished this book a couple of days ago and it exceeded all my expectations except in length...I wanted it to go on forever. Hopefully in a few years there will be a part 2! Thank you Amy!Book Review: I enjoyed this book very much
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been an Amy Grant fan since 'Heart In Motion' was released. I've always enjoyed hearing Amy's personal thoughts and her life and living in general and if you're the same, then you'll enjoy this book because that is what it is. I started off this book thinking I was going to read about her life from start to current day but the book actually takes you back and forth in different time periods of her life. The book also explains some of the songs we know and thoughts and facets of life that made me feel like I got to know her better. She seemed to have the freedom to write about the good and bad through the book where she doesn't so much on camera or even in her music. I highly recommend AMY GRANT: MOSAIC for the casual and Amy Grant fanatic. Book Review: FROM AN AMY GRANT FAN
Summary: 1 Stars
1) Part poetry part short stories...heard it all before
2) Some pictures seen most before...nothing new here
3) Her poetry comes in the form that she has made into songs. Some had stories behind them some did not
4) The book is made of 240 pages...but subtract the photos and the poetry that have already been written and the stories that have been told then it is not much writing on her part.
5) Some or most of the stories have been pulled from interviews that she has told before.
6) Did she address the divorce...no
7) Did she address that her music is not as popular as before...no
8) A quick read for the novice Amy Grant fan but for the rest of us it left us waiting for the next best thing
Book Review: Confession of a Hurting Friend....not a Spoiled Celebrity
Summary: 4 Stars
I was offered the opportunity to read and review Amy Grant's new biography, Mosaic. Had it been in the bookstore, I might have picked it up, glanced through it and come away with a very different impression than I've developed from reading it cover to cover.
I haven't been a rabid Amy fan. As a matter of fact, I've seen her in concert once and that was because I went to see Mercy Me and Amy opened for them. I purchased her Christmas CD at a garage sale. This information is not a slam in any way. I'm just sharing where I am coming from where Amy is concerned.
Driven to curiosity by the talk before, during and after her divorce from Gary Chapman I purchased Amy's Behind the Eyes CD. The lyrics from several songs haunted me. As a survivor of a rotten marriage gone good, I felt compelled to write to Amy. Crazy as that sounds...who does that? But I did. I don't remember what I wrote, other than to tell her it didn't have to end in divorce. I wondered like much of the rest of the world why she thought God wanted her to be happy at the expense of her children's pain.
I almost turned down Mosaic because of my thoughts and feelings. What if she showed no remorse, no awareness of the sanctity of marriage? What if she lightly dismissed the damage done to her children? How could I recommend this book? Then my daughter reminded me that I don't like to sit in judgment of others and I love people who screw up daily, and that I have to look into the mirror and see behind my own eyes. I needed to give Amy's book a fair reading.
I'm sorry, Amy.
Amy's divorce is as much a symptom of America's brand of diluted Christianity as it is a picture of our pathetic human weaknesses. Why should she, though in the public eye and ministering to thousands through her music, be held to a higher standard of holiness? A standard that a full half of professing Christian married couples can't meet? I, myself, am still married only because God held me in place. Everything in me wanted to be divorced and free of the pain that my husband and I inflicted on each other.
Mosaic starts like a feel-good anecdotal "Chicken Soup" style of book full of sweet stories inspiring song lyrics which end each chapter. A section of names and events details Amy's relationships with celebrities and treasured encounters with them.
Had the book been just this feel good celebrity stuff, I wouldn't recommend it. But as the book progresses Amy begins to dig deep. The promotional quotes from Mosaic have been light and chatty, friendly and homey. What dug under my skin and into my heart was the poetic poignancy with which Amy described the events and people that have shaped her through much pain and loss. Those are the entries that contain the lyrics from some of the songs that haunted me from Behind the Eyes. Amy shares her thoughts on depression, faithquakes and the death of innocence. She left me feeling like I hadn't been reading the words of a spoiled celebrity, but instead, hearing the confessions of a hurting friend.
Fame doesn't save us. A good spouse, wonderful children, great friends, history, and money can't save us. If we could each grasp how much we are loved by the Creator of the universe, maybe we wouldn't be so quick to run away from Him to find our own way. We all grab for worthless bandages. Most of us don't have the burden of the spotlight of fame to complicate our paths.