I am need at least one blog post a week so I'd thought since times-they-are- a- crazy (bad joke) with school, I'd write short book review on Suze Rotolo's memoir, A Freewheelin' Time. Rotolo is best know for being linked to Bob Dylan.The book consists of short anecdotes about her time spent in Greenwich Village with Dylan and by herself during the early sixties, with some stories about her time away, travelling to Italy, other parts of Europe and North America. I have to say I enjoyed this book, but I must note I have a strange fascination with the sixties and stuff associated with Dylan, (maybe I was a hippie in a past life) which means I may like it more than the average reader. However Rotolo's choice of stories seem haphazard at times and lack flow but, they are, nonetheless, very interesting stories that seem impossible to have occured in such a short span of time. This memoir reminds readers to do what you love and that one person or action can change your life . I'll end this post with my favourite quote:
"Those who feel they are not part of the mainstream are always somewhere, however. Greenwich Village is calling. Though it is a concept now priced out of its physical space, as a state of mind, it will never be out of bounds, In the end, like finds like: it doesn't matter whether there is a actual neighbourhood or not. A compelling and necessary idea will always find a place to plant itself. The creative spirit finds a way. "(Rotolo 365)
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