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Welcome to Celebrity Book Club. This is a podcast that recaps and celebrates female celebrity memoirs.

I'm your host, Chelsea Devantes. I'm a TV writer, comedian, and filmmaker, and sometimes

a man's stuff, too. Today we're book clubbing a fantastic memoir. It is The Singer Jewel.

Her memoir was written in 2015. Its title never broken with the tagline Songs are only half the

story. I think this is an incredible title, an incredible tagline, and the best celebrity memoir

photo ever. I think it's in the top five. It is Jewel barefoot on a horse in this like beautiful

orange dress, and there's like a landscape behind her. I'm going to post it on my Instagram and

on the Patreon so you can see it for yourself. I should have known from the cover how much I would

love this book. It's giving cults. It's giving momagers and truly beautiful introspection. I can't

wait to talk about it. So let's dive in.

Oh, religion on friend. We're so worried about us saving our souls. A friend that God will take

his toll that we forget to begin with. Who will set it up your soul when it comes to the best

Our guest today has worked as a personal essayist since her teens contributing to numerous

publications, websites, and anthologies, most notably her own award-winning personal blog

Girls Gone Child. Her essays have appeared on Refinery29, LitHub Entertainment Weekly,

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