Catch a Fire: The Autobiography

Rating:
Summary: Fair and fun!
Review: I haven't completed this book quite yet, but what I'm noticing is something set apart from the other Spice biographies: she will be happy to tell pleasant anecdotes. Sure it starts with a bang, which seems to be what is suppose to draw you in like a teaser on the telly before the opening sequence and more commercials, but as she describes her experience with the girls she lets us know some of the funner times they had rather than the dramatic estrangement that is often so dwelt on. It's also a fascinating history she provides of where her people come from and the whole mixture of her. She was also my least favourite of the five but now I'm finding her more of a fair and friendly personage than the rest. She seems open to life, the mistakes that make us who we are and let us learn the balance of things. I wish she would make another album and write more of her own songs. They're all good at writing pop melodies (yes, they do co-write songs!) and she is no exception.

Word to the wise: amazon.co.uk is usually easier on the pocket book with some of this british stuff. I got my copies of albums and books from there. (As well as the Harry Potter books, which are an easier print than the ones here.)

Rating:
Summary: Scary Tells All
Review: Scary Spice was my least favourite Spice Girl for her loudness and in your face attitude but this book gave me another insight into this person, one that dug beneath the "Scary" image she displayed in the Spice Girls, the book is also an excellent cross reference with the Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice) book which I have also read so it backs up many events described during the Spice Girls proving them to be obviously accurate and authentic.

I came out of reading this book with a certain sympathy for this Spice Girl I had previously found a little annoying, and though I still don't love her, I understand where her loud and in your face personality comes from. This is worth a read for any Spice Girls fan who wants to dig deeper than the sugary image they portrayed during the bands success, and see them as real people with real thoughts and feelings, personal successes, insecurities, personal struggles and real human emotions.

Ginger Spice's split from the band is not detailed much, which is a shame, but having read the Geri Halliwell book "If Only" it's told that went she left she didn't give a reason at the time anyways. All in all a decent read for fans of the Spice Girls who want to get a little look into the life of Scary Spice.