{"product_id":"im-more-than-what-i-seem-new","title":"I'm More Than What I Seem","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmazon.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe title I'm More Than What I Seem expresses a sentiment that snakes across the human spectrum. But a convincing case can be made that girls 8 to 14--this record's target audience--are its surest sympathizers; they're also prime prey for acute growing pains, peer pressure, alienating lapses of faith, and various crises of self-confidence. Fortunately, Celia Straus, adolescent expert and author of Prayers on My Pillow, saw fit to adapt her spiritually and emotionally nourishing poems on such hairy subjects to a spoken-word CD. Better still, a handful of celebrity moms stood behind her by contributing their influential, if not always recognizable, vocals. Annette Bening breathes both vulnerability and confidence into a track on loneliness. Blythe Danner celebrates the self with \"The Song of My Soul Is Mine for the Singing,\" part of a track called \"My Blessings.\" Amy Irving and Swoosie Kurtz tackle the occasional trickiness of truth-telling. And Kathleen Turner delivers a hopeful reading of \"Let Me Love Myself So Much\" on a well-conceived mirror-themed track. A host of other notables, Christine Baranski and Vanity Fair's Leslie Bennetts among them, also lend their talents to these selections, each enhanced by original, mind-defogging New Age music. Most appealing about this record (other than its producers' ongoing contribution to the Motherless Daughters charity), though, is its packaging. The CD is tucked inside a tiny, gorgeously illustrated hardcover book that not only lists each poem's words but includes insirational, empathetic, and sometimes quirky quotes from a bevy of mothers and daughters. --Tammy La Gorce, ISBN13:B00004TCQ8 ISBN10:B00004TCQ8 Material Type:audioCD\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52514436448563,"sku":"B10.34.7 F_10-09-25_UBD_H0001HI0","price":42.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0748\/5086\/1363\/files\/41QJ60986NL.jpg?v=1760387297","url":"https:\/\/cheapbookdepot.com\/products\/im-more-than-what-i-seem-new","provider":"Cheap Book Depot","version":"1.0","type":"link"}