<![CDATA[Baby Plays Around: A Love Affair, with Music]]>

false <![CDATA[Baby Plays Around: A Love Affair, with Music]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171558193m/105669.jpg 105669 2 By the author of the bestselling Five-Finger Discount, a hip, funny, and absorbing memoir of a journalist realizing a lifelong dream—playing drums in a rock band—as her marriage hits the rocks Helene Stapinski took guitar lessons when she was a girl, but it was her brother’s drums that really held her interest. She used to sneak in and play them when he was away; when he realized what she was doing, he dismantled them each time he finished playing. But Helene figured out how to put them back together. She learned the classic drum solos and followed the careers of famous drummers. As an adult, Helene put the drums aside and became a journalist. When she was thirty she interviewed Julie, the leader of a rock band, for a story. The band needed a drummer, and Helene’s long-forgotten ambitions came flooding back. She joined, and then she brought her husband aboard on bass. Just as they started playing out at clubs, though, Helene’s husband quit the group. And as Helene’s involvement with her bandmates deepened, her relationship with her husband became distant and strained—and very nearly shattered. Baby Plays Around reads like a novel but will ring true to anyone who has ever been in a band or just dreamed of it. Set amid the bars, clubs, and rehearsal studios of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, it’s an incisive exploration of the romance of rock and roll, and of the realization and relinquishing of youthful dreams—about ambition, freedom, and infidelity, about love lost and found again. Written with the same wit and insight that distinguished Stapinski’s uproarious memoir Five-Finger Discount—and a sense of humor as sharp as the crack of a snare drum—Baby Plays Around is a unique and deeply personal story of music and passion. From the Hardcover edition. 1253458 2004 Baby Plays Around: A Love Affair, with Music total:34|5:13|4:13|3:5|2:3| 34 138 48 3 4 0 false false Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 08:09:13 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 08:12:05 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Mar 02 10:47:45 -0800 2007 Fri Mar 02 11:03:33 -0800 2007 4 0 false false Thu Aug 23 19:44:40 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 19:46:05 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Thu Nov 12 15:47:39 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 15:47:39 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Mon Oct 05 16:48:58 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 16:49:18 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Aug 05 17:55:56 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 17:55:56 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 22 11:17:42 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 11:17:50 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Mon Jun 08 17:33:34 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 17:33:34 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 22 11:22:04 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 11:22:04 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun May 03 17:28:01 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 17:28:01 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Apr 27 06:55:26 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 06:55:30 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Apr 11 14:41:23 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 14:41:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Apr 10 18:16:23 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 18:16:23 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Apr 09 12:11:06 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 12:11:06 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Mar 21 18:19:26 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 18:19:26 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Mar 09 22:05:30 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 22:05:30 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Jan 31 06:31:26 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 06:31:26 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 10 21:31:02 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 21:31:02 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:53:10 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 00:53:16 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Dec 16 06:45:33 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 06:45:42 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=105669