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Catch and Kill
November 2019: American History
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Catch and Kill - Ronan Farrow 4/5
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I'm nearly done with this one too, and I've loved it. That's a pretty great endorsement from this here fiction lover! I'm glad I didn't do the audio. I'm looking forward to continuing the theme with She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement some time soon.
I am going to have to add both of these. I have been eyeing them and wondering if they might be worth it.Right, I need a book that is going to inflame me a bit! LoL! Just so I can place my anger about my health somewhere besides the homestead.
Well, fascinating ... disgusting ... not surprising and yet, shocking. The way some rich and powerful men in this world behave is mind boggling. Every single one who gets caught and their money can't save them, is a small bit of justice. They cannot fall hard enough as far as I'm concerned.
If you don't know, this book is primarily about the investigative reporting into sexual assault/harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein and others and the lengths that both Weinstein and NBC went to in order to bury the story. I mean, not only was his behavior reprehensible but don't worry there was more reprehensible right around to corner to protect it. I guess I'm angrier about all this than I realized, LOL.
The book was well-written and well-paced. Fairly comprehensive. Parts of it felt like fiction. What just absolutely BOGGLES my mind is - how much sex does a person need to have in their lives? And with how many partners? Good lord, I just don't get it.
Probably would have been a 5-star read, but I did the audio. Farrow read it himself, and he was actually a great narrator until he did the accents. This is a serious topic. Don't cheapen it with your caricatures - I know your mom is Mia Farrow, but there's a time and place and I didn't feel this was the time for Russian spy voice, Trump and Woody Allen impressions, etc. So I dropped a star for that. Sorry, Ronan. Other than that, it was great.