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Celine Dion Book:
Celine Dion: For Keeps
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Celine Dion: For Keeps |  |  | | List Price: $39.95 | | Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Salesrank: 383196
| | Our Price: $3.95 | | Used Price: $3.95 | | | Media: Hardcover | |
Editorial Review:
Céline Dion has long been one of the world's most admired performers. Her unique blend of brilliant talent and an unstinting willingness to share her life has defined her career in the public eye. With new interviews and special memorabilia, Céline Dion: For Keeps will invite her fans to get to know the professional and personal parts of her life as never before. Céline Dion is a very special collection: a combination of memoir, personal scrapbook, and looking glass into one of the world's most admired lives. Drawing heavily from Céline's personal archives and those of her husband and longtime manager, René Angelil, this book focuses on the key elements of her life, including her family, career, inspirations, courtship and marriage to René, show business hiatus, son René-Charles, and plans for the future-everything that makes her who she is. Produced in the successful and stylish format of last year's The Sinatra Treasures, each of Céline Dion's chapters will include removable facsimiles of favorite mementos, stored in vellum envelopes. Everything from Céline and René's love notes and family photos to special letters and her wedding program can be examined and admired in detail. This is a remarkable opportunity to share in the unique and vital life and career of Céline Dion. Celine Dion: For Keeps Reviews:
Simply A Beautiful Book 
2008-06-06 - I purchased this book for my upcoming birthday, it is simply a beautiful book. You can see the great care put into making this book, from the pictures to the little insights. I have always loved Celine, for both her outstanding vocal abilities and her unwavering faith in love. This book is very touching, it brings the Dion Family, Rene, and little Rene Charles to life. This book contains lovely candid photos, one of my favorites is of her wedding, not the photo we usually see with Celine dressed formally to the nines, but one with her in a rather plain frock, and in Rene's arms as he carries her over the threshold, both with happy wide smiles. I would also suggest purchasing "My Story, My Dream", having read both myself it makes for a complete read.
Absolutely Brilliant - a must have for every fan
2008-03-16 - OMG i LOVED this book. I couldn't put it down once i received it. It really brings her life together with all of the photos, scripts, letters etc. It is most definately a must read.
Something for even die-hard fans
2008-03-14 - I consider myself a die-hard Celine Dion fan ever since hearing her French-language Incognito (1987) album. I own all of her French-language recordings (including out-of-print LPs and singles from 1981-1988), have watched her early French music videos and numerous French-language biographies and TV specials, and have read her official MY STORY, MY DREAM. biography several times.
When I saw Celine Dion: For Keeps, I bought it to round out my collection, erroneously thinking that when it came to Celine's early years in Quebec, I'd seen / heard it all. Not so.
Background
Similar to The Sinatra Treasures: Intimate Photos, Mementos, and Music from the Sinatra Family Collection, Celine Dion: For Keeps features rare photos and removable reproductions of important documents from Celine's career and personal life, such as an early Quebecois report card, the handwritten sheet music to her audition song Ce n'etait qu'un reve (written by her mother), tour schedules, Grammy nomination letters, and even a copy of Celine's ultrasound (translations are provided for all French documents).
There are recollections that I'd never heard before, such as Celine touring the mall circuit in Quebec during her earliest years as a fledgling artist, and many remembrances from acquaintances, fellow celebrities, and music personalities. This combined the appeal of a text-only biography with multimedia; my only wish would have been for a CD with rare / unreleased performances as was done with the Sinatra Treasures collection.
She shines in this awesome book
2006-12-21 - This book of hers shines really brightly & is a must buy book one of the best of 2006 in the top 5. George
Every artist should have a book like this!
2006-11-10 - This amazing book offers a detailed overview of Celine's life in the spot lights. It has removable documents and photos from celine's personal archives.
The great thing is that it seems like a very honest book, even discussing her insecurities and the difficult times in her personal and professional life.
The book is quite big and heavy, so not for traveling, but ideal for reading on a lazy sunday afternoon.
Absolutely recomended for everyone who is interested in Celine's music and her life.
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