Wildflower

 Shirley J.                         Non-Fiction  Autobiography                     Drew Barrymore

Wildflower by Drew Barrymore  276 pages

Drew Barrymore has been one of my favorite in the moment people ever since I first saw her in

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.   She bares her soul in this story of her life and how becoming a Mom has given her a completely new perspective on life.   She shares many of her adventures in life from before the E.T. days being raised by hippies, both her mother and father, and how being raised in that environment she related more to adults than kids.   She talks about  just deciding to do a thing and then doing it - rent an R-V and go touring the countryside with her best gal pal leaving for L.A. headed to her friend's folks place in New Hampshire.   They just pulled off every where they wanted to along the way and had a blast, well there was that incident in New Orleans with misjudging the height of the dealie over the gas pumps where she ripped the top off the RV and they got help from a mysterious drag queen coming out of the dark.   Then the time where she read an article about a school in Africa. and ended up getting a free trip to go there and write an article about it, thanks to magazine, Marie Claire.   She decided to go to India one day, called her travel agent and went (must be nice!).  But when she met her current husband and the father of her children her take me as I am attitude relaxed to O. K. I see your point, too, and her frenzied life took on a new look.   Interesting look inside some of the stories that made headlines and Internet virals over the years    I would recommend this book to mature teens on up.