Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Book List

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Books reviewed in the community this year.


1) "J Randy Taraborrelli's awful Beyonce book" -- Ann reviews a book on Beyonce.

 

2)  "Sheila Weller's Carrie Fisher: A Life On The Edge" -- Marcia reviews a puff piece bio.

 

3)   "Sheet Pan Fajita Shrimp in the Kitchen" -- Trina reviews a cookbook.

 

4) "Container Gardening (book review), Idiot of the Week, and Kylie Minogue performed at the Brit Awards" -- Mike covers a book on container gardening. 


5) "Type II Diabetes (books)" -- Stan reviews four books on diabetes.


6) "faye dunaway" -- Rebecca reviews a biography of Faye Dunaway.  

 

7)  "THE FIVE-INGREDIENT COOKBOOK FOR MEN" -- Mike reviews a cookbook. 

 

 

8)  "SILENT SISTERS: PROFILES OF THE SHORT LIVES OF KAREN CARPENTER, PATSY CLINE, CASS ELLIOT, RUBY ELZY, JANIS JOPLIN AND SELENA" -- Ty reviews a sketch book.

 

9) "THE LESSONS OF MAMA TEMBO (Dona)" -- Dona reviews a children's book.

 

10) "Michael Schulman's OSCAR WARS: A HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD IN GOLD, SWEAT AND TEARS" -- Stan's book review. 

 

11) "Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life ..." -- Ann reviews a bad book about an early film star. 


12) "MY MAMA, CASS" -- Kat reviews a book by the daughter of Cass Elliot.  


13) "Media: The stupid return to target Target and a man writes a really dull, boring book" -- Ava and C.I. review A. Ashley Hoff's  WITH LOVE, MOMMIE DEAREST: THE MAKING OF AN UNINTENTIONAL CAMP CLASSIC.

 

14)  "THE DARK SIDE OF HOLLYWOOD (Ty)" -- Ty reviews a book about Charlie Chaplin, Lupe Velez and Jean Harlow.

 

15) "LADIES WHO PUNCH: THE EXPLOSIVE INSIDE STORY OF THE VIEW" -- Ruth reviews a book about ABC's long running gasbaggery. 

 

16)  "HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITIES: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? (Jim)" -- Jim covers a book that fails to deliver. 

 

17) "Andrew McCarthy's BRAT" -- Kat reviews Andrew's bio.

 

18) "A really bad book gets reviewed -- plus Paul Rudnick, Diana Ross, Chase Rice, Sam Smith " -- Elaine reviews Tina Brown's  THE VANITY FAIR DIARIES.

 

19)  "Boze Hadleigh's Hollywood Lesbians: from Garbo to Foster" and "'hollywood lesbians: from garbo to foster' by boze hadleigh" -- Marcia and Rebecca do their annual summer read.

 

20) "C'MON, GET HAPPY is the worst book of 2024 " -- Kat reviews a book supposedly covering the film SUMMER STOCK.

 

21) "Diet Clam Chowder in the Kitchen"  -- Trina reviews a book on the history of chowder. 

 

22) "CINEMA SPECULATION" -- Stan reviews Quentin Tarantino's book. 

 

23) "carrie courogen's elaine may book" -- Rebecca reviews MISS MAY DOES NOT EXIST.

 

24) CARRIE FISHER & DEBBIE REYNOLDS: PRINCESS LEIA & UNSINKABLE TAMMY IN HELL (Ty) -- Ty reviews a book about Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher.  

 

25) "SAL MINEO: A BIOGRAPHY (Dona)"  -- Donna reviews a biography about Sal Mineo. 

 

26) "THE FRIEDKIN CONNECTION (Jess)"  -- Jess' reviews a director's memoir.  


21) "California Dreamin': The True Story of the Mamas and the Papas" -- Marcia reviews a book about one of the great bands of the sixties. 

22) "Help! My Apartment Has A Kitchen" -- Trina covers a cookbook she recommends highly. 

23)  "He should have called it HOW TO GET AWAY WITH DROWNING YOUR WIFE" -- Stan reviews a laughable memoir.


24) "Cher: The Memoir, Part 1" -- Kat covers Cher's memoir. 



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