Biography, Autobiography, Memoir discussion
Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir read in 2022
Marilyn: The Passion and Paradox by Lois BannerWhy read another book on Marilyn Monroe? I guess the fascination with the icon never ends...maybe its just the tragedy of a woman creating a persona and then never being able to escape that persona...
Lois Banners take on Marilyn in this biography is a bit uneven. She states right of the bat that she's a feminist scholar and she'll have insights others don't have, but I didn't find that much here, she actually seems to insert her opinion in odd places where it's not warranted.
The biography is best when telling about Norma Jeane's childhood going in and out of ten foster homes/families but after she becomes the famous Marilyn Monroe and caught up in studio politics is where her life spirals out of control. It gets a bit tedious. Marilyn makes a break for it to New York but the studio still has her in its clutches and lures her back to Hollywood.
Then she swaps power plays with studio execs to actual politics with the Kennedy brothers but this is where the casting couch doesn't pay off.
If she lived now I think she would have been a much freer artist, to me it seems the pressure of movie star fame in a studio system which stererotyped it's actors contributed to her demise. It's awash withs sex and drugs, a fatal combination for a waif like Norma Jeane was. The authors assertion that Marilyn killed herself cos she couldn't handle her lesbian tendencies doesn't ring true. If anything she was trying to fend of all predators trying to get a piece of her but she didn't have the resources to say no, don't treat me like a piece of meat.
Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography by Laurie WooleverI think this one would be a good buddy read, because its compiled of so many people's different experiences of working and being around Anthony Bourdain.
There are over 90 different people interviewed, I am not sure if the author was interviewing people as a group, like his shooting crew or individually and placing them in order, to tell the story of Anthony's life. His mother and brother are featured, and his first and second wives and daughter, but tellingly, not his last girlfriend.
I had always wondered, even when viewing A Cook's Tour and No Reservations, what a toll all that travel and filming would have taken on his family/personal life. This book seeks to explain who Tony was before fame and what happened after. One thing that emerges was yes, he had an addictive personality, but then that was part of his charm. All or nothing.
Creating Room to Read by John WoodThis memoir is a sequel to this book Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children which I haven't read, but you may get the gist of it anyway, in that John, a Microsoft entrepreneur, left his job to build a fundraising organisation to put books in school libraries in developing countries starting from the Himalayas where he was trekking to find the meaning of life. It sounds eerily similar to Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time except his funding model is a bit different as he already knows the rich investors to schmooze funds from, and the recipients are willing to raise half the money.
What follows is a firsthand account of all the success stories (and a few epic fails) of his quest. As a librarian, of course, I applaud this, as not all of us can rely on funds from the govt! The other thing that is important is funding publishers to produce children's books in their native tongues.
Hey there! I don’t know if anyone’s read this memoir before but I’m currently reading “Breaking Night” the memoir by Liz Murray. I love the book so far but am confused with the ending of chapter 2. When she gets sent to the doctors why did she start bleeding? They don’t explain it very clearly so I may be just naive to what’s happening lol 😂. If anybody read this book and wants to help me better understand I would appreciate it!
The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters With Extraordinary People
Susan Orlean
4/5 stars
I always enjoying read Susan Orlean’s books and this book has her original interviews with the famous and not so famous people she encountered. This book was published in 2001 but is still entertaining though it would be interesting to see where those people are today.
Jerzie wrote: "Hey there! I don’t know if anyone’s read this memoir before but I’m currently reading “Breaking Night” the memoir by Liz Murray. I love the book so far but am confused with the ending of chapter 2...."I have not read her book!
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4 stars
The beginning of this book was really hard to read. The author adopts a dog that is only a few months old and is terribly wounded because he was used as bait in a dog fight and then tossed aside to die. The dog fight is raided and the puppy is taken to a vet clinic where the author sees him when taking his cat in. After the initial horrors it is just a sweet story about a pretty special dog and a special family that adopts him. A little over 200 pages so it is a quick read.
MM--Personal: From the Private Archive of Marilyn Monroe by Lois BannerThe contents of two of Marilyn Monroes file cabinets revealed!
Be warned, contains an awful number of receipts.
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5 stars
I have a confession to make. I love game shows! Gene Rayburn led an interesting life. This isn't just a biography of Gene Rayburn. It is a look at the history of game shows and, specifically, the history of the long-running game show Match Game. Some things were surprising, such as the fact that Gene did not become rich from the show, and it wasn't his first love. He longed to be a serious actor but was pigeon-holed into the role of a game show host. I was amazed that he did not end up on a good footing with his fellow game show host Richard Dawson. There are lots of quotes from celebrities that were on the show and from his daughter. It will be more fun now to watch the vintage shows knowing all the secrets.
Koren wrote: "The Matchless Gene Rayburn by Adam Nedoff5 stars
I have a confession to make. I love game shows! Gene Rayburn led an interesting li..."
Sounds interesting- added to my list!
I did read Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by John WoodIt is more of the same as the Creating Room to Read book but it was the first one so I wanted to know a bit more of how he got started. I don't think it was a big change of role for John just a different direction - books over computers! Because you need books FIRST of course.
Also if you want to know what it's like to work for Microsoft, it's very data driven. I'm not sure I could have handled the pace but it got results. We need people like this to drive literacy, because otherwise things get caught up in red tape all the time and nobody does anything - and children ultimately miss out on their prime years of learning.
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4 stars
Melissa wrote a memoir a few years ago that told about her earlier life and her television series Little House on The Prairie, and thankfully this is not a re-hash of that book. In fact, she barely talks about her past at all. This book is about her last few years and the life that she has made living in a rural area, raising chickens and a garden and basically moving to a slower pace in life during the Covid pandemic. Reading some of the reviews, it seems that there are quite a few 1 and 2 star reviews and most of these are from people that didn't agree with her political views and her views about wearing masks and getting vaccines. So, fair warning, she is a liberal Democrat and does not like our past president and if this bothers you, you probably should not spend your hard earned dollars on this book. But if it doesn't bother you, it is an optimistic look at what life can be like in your later years, when you can relax and do exactly what makes you happy. One thing I found a little peculiar was how often she stated that they couldn't buy something because it was too expensive or they had to watch their finances. I wouldn't have thought that would be an issue for her.
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2 stars
I thought the title was misleading for this book. There aren't really any secrets and very little eavesdropping. The beginning was a little interesting. It starts out telling about her training and what happens behind the scenes at an expensive restaurant in New York City. But after that it is mostly about the author and her friendships and love life. There were interesting aspects to this book but it mostly fell flat for me.
Koren wrote: "Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered by Melissa Gilbert4 stars
Melissa wrote a memo..."
Thanks, I just marked this want to read. It should be interesting to have a different take on that show (for whatever part of the book that is) since I read Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated a few years ago.
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4 stars
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I think the Allison Arngrim memoir was the best of all the memoirs I have read by the Little House cast.
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Sonia Purnell
5/5 stars
This is the amazing story of Virginia Hall, a woman who had lost her leg in a hunting accident at the age of 27 and who ended up becoming a spy in World War II for the SOE (Special Operations Executive), helping to organize and aid the French Resistance. After the war, she ended up working for the CIA. Highly recommended!
Nuku: Stories of 100 indigenous women by Qiane Matata-SiupuThis is one of those profile books of women, mostly 1-2 pages on each with photos. Almost all are Maori, with a few Islanders/native Americans thrown in who base themselves in NZ. Each wahine has their tribal affiliation (if known) and a bit about what their mahi (work) is.
Whether its making poi, weaving, rongoa (Maori Medicine) being a top athlete, social advocacy, or librarian (yes there is one) there's a whole range here, and not all are the well known famous people like Kiri Te Kanawa. At the back there is a glossary of kupu (words in Maori) and they also have podcasts on each wahine, so its a very good intro and celebration of indigenous women.
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3 stars
Loved her in Dirty Dancing so I was a bit disappointed that she didn't talk more about it. I knew that she had a nose job and blames that for her lack of jobs but I did think she went on a bit much about it. It's too bad that her mother made her self-conscious about her nose. I know what a mother's criticism can do to your self-esteem. There were parts of her story that were interesting and parts that just seemed to go on a little too long. I was a little disappointed that she went on and on about the love of her life and yet they are no longer together. She never really explained that to my satisfaction. So all in all I would say this was interesting if you are a fan, but if not probably just skip it.
From A Dark Cave To New Zealand by Mustafa DarbandiI picked this up because I wanted to read about Kurdish refugees to New Zealand. It's the story of one man's journey escaping from the regime in Iraq and trying to avoid capture in Turkey and Iran as he goes from there to Pakistan and Afghanistan, then finally being accepted as a refugee to New Zealand.
And it's literally hiding in caves or foxholes and braving wild animals (wolves and bears) to get to safety. I was amazed he survived, and remembered most of the details when he was on the run for 2-3 weeks. (Like what time he woke up and went to sleep each day) As for the political situation it's explained as best he can but as English isn't his first language the writing isn't very descriptive or imaginative. It's mostly this and this happened.
I'm still not really clear why the Kurds or Kurdistan homeland got taken over, but I know a bit more about the situation than I knew before.
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Adam Kay
5/5 stars
This is the diaries that Adam Kay kept while being a resident in the National Health Service in the UK. After 12 years in school and working as a doctor, he quit his job. Fortunately for him, he wrote this book and ended up selling about 1.5 million books. I enjoyed this immensely and could empathize with him and the pain he dealt with treating the sick and their families, working non-stop, missing meals and sleep, dealing with administrators and the constant change in policies. Great book!
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5 stars
James Patterson is primarily a mystery writer, but he has also written some True Crime books. I have read a few of them and I think I liked them all because they are concise and move along quickly. In his autobiography he does say that this is his trademark. Almost all chapters are two to three pages long and he doesn't get overly detailed about anything. What I loved most was his humor. He is funny without trying too hard and while I seldom think humor translates well on the printed page, his humor makes you smile, rather than laugh out loud. I loved this book so much I am going to check out his fiction and check to see if there are any of his nonfiction I haven't read yet.
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonomi ParkWell this one was even more harrowing than the escape from Iraq regime by the Kurds.
Instead of wild animals, Yeonomi and her mother had to fend off Chinese brokers and human traffickers who tried to rape them.
This story is better told than Mustafas' though. It's not just a blow by blow account of the journey across the border. Yeonomi writes about the poverty and repressive regime of North Korea in which she dreams of eating bread. Then after when she finally gets to South Korea how she settled in afterward, which was not always easy after being brainwashed for all her childhood. Plus it is a tale about her family and all they did to survive.
The interesting thing is after she got out she read a lot of books and one of them included Animal Farm, which she wrote was just like how it was in North Korea....
Just as I Am by Cicely Tyson3 stars
Cicely Tyson's acting ability - 5+ stars--one of the top actresses of her era
I have nothing but respect for Tyson's acting ability, for the strength it took her to make a life for her and her daughter, called Joan in this book, and for her decision to be careful about what roles she chose.
However, I'm not rating Cicely Tyson the actress or the civil rights proponent who chose acting and speaking as her platform (which was very much needed, of course), but I'm rating this book.
Michelle Burford helped write this book, organize it, etc, and I don't know if it's her, the editors or the combined crew that got this book ready for printing, but I found the book a bit uneven. Some parts were amazing, some boring, and some dragged on longer than they needed to. I'm not a fan of celebrities of any ilk doling out dietary and health advice. I have known several people who reached her age and older, and none of them followed her dietary regimen, etc. I also had a hard time with how much of the book was devoted to her book rationalizing her marriage to the brilliant musician, Miles Davis. Yes, she loved him and wanted to marry him despite what those who loved her would say--that's very human, isn't it?--but sometimes a bit less is more. That said, I haven't read Miles' autobiography, so perhaps she was reacting to what he wrote.
I also found some things over the book rather contradictory to her continued avowal that God was giving her all of what she got. For example (and it came up near the end of the book and I just read that part last night which is why it's fresh in my memory,) though out the book she discusses how God had a hand over her entire career and that she only took roles when she got a tingling which never steered her wrong. Then, without having read the novel or seen the entire film, she changed her mind about her role as Constantine in The Help, which would mean that her tingling was wrong that time and that it didn't come from God.
Re: the hymns she loved that were most significant in this book--the lyrics to both were penned by women. The title of the book comes from one penned by British hymn writer (lyrics in this instance) Charlotte Elliot, and her favourite one that comes up so much, "Blessed Assurance" was written by blind hymn writer and abolitionist (lyrics) Fanny Crosby and the music by Phoebe Knapp who was also an abolitionist.
Karin wrote: " Just as I Am by Cicely Tyson3 stars
Cicely Tyson's acting ability - 5+ stars--one of the top actresses of her era
I have nothi..."
I had this on my TBR list but think I will skip it! Thanks for the review.
Rebel by Rahaf MohammedOk if the first two escapes were harrowing from Iraq controlled Kurdistan or poverty stricken North Korea what about trying to escape from the oppressive Sharia law/Islamic kingdom cult called Wahabism in Saudi Arabia??
Again, the UNCHR intervened and refuge was found for 18 year old Rahaf in Canada. But it was dicey. And she still gets death threats from Saudis on Twitter. But anything seems better than living as a woman in Saudi Arabia I know that much.
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5 stars and a heart
I can't imagine growing up in a severely abusive foster home with no memory of your birth family. What if you were told that you were worthless and would never amount to anything and were starved and beaten within an inch of your life? You have no real family and don't feel like you belong anywhere. What makes one person fall into a life of depression and drugs and the next person become stronger? The author spends 20 years wondering what his biological family is like and when he becomes an adult he goes in search of his family and learns some surprising things along the way. There were moments in this book that brought me to tears but there are also uplifting moments. I feel like I knew the author and was hoping for the best for him. I wish only happiness for the rest of his life.
Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler by Kathryn Talalay4 stars
3.5 stars rounded up.
This is a thoroughly researched, well-written biography of Philippa Duke Schuyler, the daughter of the controversial author George S. Schuyler and his white wife, Josephine Cogdell, a true child prodigy on the piano and also an extremely bright girl then woman. Her father travelled a lot and her family was dysfunctional plus her mother--the epitome of the very worst sort of stage mother--followed behaviorist John Broadus Watson, a precursor of BF Skinner and a disciple of Pavlov. To say that his child rearing method is bad is putting it mildly. In addition, she was isolated from other children for some years, and then when she did go to school it was in a private Catholic school, etc and she only got to spend part of the day there.
Here is a recording of some of her playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2jRy...
One the one hand, Philippa loved playing the piano and was a brilliant composer--similar to Mozart. Like Mozart, her audience shrank when she grew up (his piano performing career ended and he struggled--never got rich on his stuff, but had no racism to contend with.) On the other hand, until she grew up she was sheltered from American racism which was still overt. As an adult she could only get "negro audiences" which was fine, but she wanted to play larger groups. And ended up playing in other countries.
I won't give her entire biography since this book is worth reading, but she also became a correspondent and was on hand for some significant events in Africa, including being in the country then called the Belgian Congo when it changed from Belgian to local rule. She died in her mid-thirties (not a spoiler) during a helicopter crash in Vietnam.
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4 stars
Usually, I try not to read the synopsis of the book before I start, as too many times they contain spoilers. So, I went into this book not really knowing what it was about. Along the way there were a few things that didn't make sense, but with only 100 pages left to go I was starting to wonder where the deception mentioned in the title came in. And then it started getting good. It was amazing how many people this lady deceived. The only thing I was disappointed in was that the authors didn't really explore why she said and did the things she did, but I think that is because they really didn't know.
Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers
Deborah Cadbury
4/5 stars
Deborah Cadbury, a Quaker family relative of one of the famous chocolate makers relates the history of chocolate, the manufacturers who made the chocolate and the rivalries between the chocolate manufacturers including Cadbury, Milton Hershey, Nestle, Lindt and Forrest Mars. Very interesting!
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5 stars
Not only is this a biography of Allen Ludden, it is also a biography of his wife, Betty White, and a history of game shows in the 50's and 60's. Well-written, well-researched. Interesting bio of a well-loved game show host.
One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School by Scott Turow2 stars, but I'm in the minority
Yes, I am in the minority here. Turow writes well but I wasn't able to stay consistently engaged, partly because I've never been to law school. I have been in a programme that was just as intense that had its own issues, but it was so very different that that the intensity and time consumption were the only shared factors.
That said, this was a very important book in its day and I think that even today anyone considering law school should read it for the history of what was going on. I am sure that law school is still very intense, demanding and time consuming with many challenges, but at least one of the points made in the book was just beginning to be changed in a few progressive law schools at that time.
The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice, by Benjamin Gilmer5 stars!
Just an excellent read about a curious coincidence that turned into much, much more. Well written, hard to put down. There was medical material in here but it was delivered in plain English. Moving and hard to put aside. A lot of this story shocked me to the core. Don't miss this one
The Gospel Side of Elvis by Joe MoeschoA look at the gospel side of Elvis by one of his back up singers of the Imperials. Elvis liked to relax after a concert by singing gospel with his musicians.
Also in the appendix of this book is 153 facts about Elvis and lists of the gospel songs he sang.
Elvis did grow up in church and always had faith that even though he may have dabbled or been influenced by other hangers on later on in his life. From this book, it seems witnesses would say he was like the 'bell sheep' and that was his role rather than being King of rock and roll Elvis would defer to the King of Kings.
Though those who aren't believers may not have seen it that way, Elvis put his heart and soul into worship with his voice and music, the rest was entertainment to pay the bills. It seems he regarded his big break as 'lucky' and actually rock and roll was not really his passion, though he eventually became a victim of his own success. There's a foreword by ex-wife Priscilla.
If you are an Elvis fan I don't think you can't be aware of how Elvis loved gospel as many of his later music had deep spiritual themes This book really focuses on what was an important part of who Elvis was inside and apart from the music 'business'.
Barnum: An American Life
Robert Wilson
5/5 stars
This is the biography of the amazing PT Barnum, who ran a museum of oddities, brought life to the circus and introduced some of his most famous acts to the American public including Jenny Lind, the Swedish songstress, Jumbo, the elephant and General Tom Thumb. The author paints a wonderful picture of his life, his family, the people that surrounded him and mostly his drive to entertain people. Highly recommended!
A Little Thing Called Life: From Elvis's Graceland to Bruce Jenner's Caitlyn & Songs in Between by Linda ThompsonAll the goss on being Elvis' girlfriend, to Bruce Jenner's wife before he transitioned, and then a third marriage (and divorce) to yet another dishonest guy..you wonder if Linda ever learned much from marrying men who treated her badly.
However, being a beauty pageant winner and songwriter made up for it I guess. Her life is something like out of a Danielle Steel novel. Except it's all true.
Selina wrote: "A Little Thing Called Life: From Elvis's Graceland to Bruce Jenner's Caitlyn & Songs in Between by Linda ThompsonAll the goss on being Elvis' girlfriend, to Bruce Jenner's wife be..."
She seems like a positive and upbeat kind of person. I saw her on an episode of "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" several years ago.
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5 stars
This is my third book about past game show hosts so a lot of the game show history in this book was also written about in the other two. That said, Bill Cullen is one of my favorites and Blockbuster is one of my all-time favorite game shows. I love his sense of humor. I enjoyed learning more about Bill Cullen. I pictured him to be more of a down-home country boy but I was definitely wrong.
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2 stars
I started this book once and put it aside. Decided to give it another try. I was right the first time. It just wasn't very interesting. It's mostly 'first we did this and then we did that' about a group of guys that get together in Hawaii and mostly drink and do drugs and do one dumb thing after another. I kept wondering when he was going to get to the guy disappearing and it basically is about 5 pages at the end of the book with very little information, mostly because there is no information and nothing was ever found. At the beginning it seemed like it was going to be a good book, but it doesn't really progress in the plot line and I ended up skimming the last half.
The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
Sy Montgomery
5/5 stars
This is the delightfully true story about Sy Montgomery, naturalist, writer and radio commentator, who along with her husband raised a pig who was sickly. With the help of their neighbors providing food and support, he recovered quickly, grew to 750 pounds and was a friend to the neighbors, a local celebrity and a beloved pet.
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3 stars
The most interesting part of this book was her childhhood in Egypt. I'm always interested in the immigrant experience and why someone leaves their home country for a new life in another but there really wasn't much about that. There were no traumatic experiences, such as war or poverty. In a nutshell, she came to further her education and wound up staying. According to the back cover, this book was originally written as a gift for her grandchildren. I'm sure they treasure it.
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3 stars
A memoir about growing up with a quirky family. Her mother has psychological problems, and her father has substance abuse problem. I got a little bored with this about half-way through. I read her memoir Lit before this and liked it a lot better. Reading this book first might have given me greater insight into the other book and what may have led to her own substance abuse.
Why Karen Carpenter Matters by Karen TongsonOr..why I was named after Karen Carpenter.
A queer Filipino take on the 70's pop icon! Short and no pics sorry. But the 'Lead Sister' it seemed touched people everywhere, and not just in the white-bread suburbs of Downey, California.
The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I, by Lindsey Fitzharris4 stars!
A powerful study of the good that can come out of evil. The story consists of blended biographies of the doctors and dentists who made modern plastic surgery possible and just a few of their thousands of patients. I was overwhelmed by the difference they were able to make in these men's lives, and I was thrilled to learn the names and stories of several of the men whose injuries I remember so well from War Against War. Don't miss this one.
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3 stars
Mel Brooks has written, directed and acted in some of the most well-known and iconic movies ever. Young Frankenstein, Men In Tights, The Producers, Blazing Saddles and many more. He is a very intelligent and funny guy. This book has very little personal information. Maybe he wrote about his personal life in another book. He does spend some time writing about his childhood but not much after that. Each chapter is devoted to one of his movies and he tells you how he came to write it, how he chose the actors and any other important things he remembers. Interesting if you are a big fan, otherwise, after a while, each chapter started to sound the same.
The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish by Emily Voigt3 stars...or was it 4?
This book was exhausting in the way that The Levy caper was: the author galloped all over the world, again and again, chasing something just out of her grasp. The more frustrated she became, the more she wanted it. If you like crime this book has plenty of it, starting out with a grisly murder and moving from there into all areas of bad activity, from questionable research practices and smuggling to genocide and gang violence. But I found myself wondering what the author was even doing here.
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4 stars
I started this book and almost put it aside. I was frustrated that every time the author was upset about something she went to the pet store and brought home another animal. I will say, she did seem to take good care of the animals, though. I stuck with it because I have a son with autism and there were so many things about Wills that reminded me of when my son was that age. Although, we did have a dog, my son wasn't as attached to the dog as Wills was. I'm glad Wills became more social after he got a dog. Just a warning, you will need a whole box of tissues at the end.
In his book Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age author Robert D. Kaplan returns to the region around the Adriatic Sea where he worked as a reporter a few decades earlier. He includes a lot of literature and history as well as discussion of the current state of the former Soviet satellite countries in the Balkans.My review:
https://mypointbeing.com/2022/08/10/a...
Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio
David Thomson
4/5 stars
Thomson writes about the four Warner brothers that built a film studio, the stars they hired and some of the famous films they made. I really enjoyed this book. There are other longer books about them but if you want a book that just gives the basics, some interesting facts and what happened to the brothers this is the one for you!
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3 stars
If you are interested in the later years of the Disney Corporation (the Robert Iger years) you might find this interesting. He will tell you all about board meetings and details about acquiring or not acquiring different companies. There isn't really much history about the early years of Disney. If this interests you, I think you would like it, but I found it a little dull.
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Wizard of Oz: An Over-the-Rainbow Celebration of the World's Favorite Movie
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I am definitely a fan of that movie!