Book Reviews
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{Book Review} The Garden on Sunset by Martin Turnbull
First of all, I have to admit that I have not read a novel in years. In fact, I do not remember at all the last novel I read before this one. The Twilight series, Harry Potter, even that Fifty Shades of Grey everyone keeps yapping about…I haven’t read any of them. The reason is that I have precious little time to read books, unfortuantely, and for years that time has been spent reading only biographies and research materials for this website. For years on end my Amazon wishlist has been filled with biographies. So for me to take on a novel was something out of the ordinary indeed. Of…
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{Book Review} Good Stuff: A Reminisence of My Father, Cary Grant
My review of this book is rather timely, it being Father’s Day weekend and all! Jennifer Grant, the only child of screen legend Cary Grant, after years of pressure, finally wrote a book about her father. In my opinion, this book is just what you would want it to be. She doesn’t pretend to be an expert on his films or on his acting, admitting there are film scholars far more qualified to do that than she. She says how the man in Arsenic and Old Lace or Bringing Up Baby almost seems like another person to her. Instead, this book is a random collection of her memories. We hear about…
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{Book Review} Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood
When I heard a bio on Myrna Loy was being released, I was very excited. Myrna’s autobiography,Being and Becoming, is hands down the best autobio I have read of a classic star. Honest and refreshingly un-fluffy, the book cemented me as a Myrna Loy fan for life. Unlike a lot of autobios, I felt that Myrna had really covered all the bases so I was intrigued as to what Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood could offer. Well. I can’t say this bio is overflowing with new information. I can’t say at all that I understand Myrna better as a person after reading it. I CAN say that I did…