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sunshine_queenDay 14 → A non-fictional book
I don't often read nonfiction books. I love biographies,but I haven't read one in a while this is a lie, the book I am showing you today is kind of a biography. Anyway, usually the nonfiction books I'm reading are for class, and while I'm sure you guys would be fascinated in life in Medieval Italy and Russia, I'll spare you and instead show you this gem.
It is no secret at all that I love Hollywood, especially the Golden age. This book is pretty much exclusively about that, ONLY WITH SOME KENNEDYS AND BRITISH ROYALTY TOSSED IN. Dominick Dunne like, Forrest Gumped his way through life and wound up meeting everyone worth knowing in the 50s and 60s. This book is really like a giant scrapbook- big font, lots and lots of pictures, fun anecdotes scattered about- but enough text that I really got a feel for their opulent, almost unbelievable lives then. (And then I flipping started reading Dominick Dunne's book Fatal Charms, which is a collection of essays he wrote for Vanity Fair. The first one is "Justice," which is about his daughter's murder trial, and I literally had to stop reading it because I was about to start crying in the library at school- and when I say "about to" I don't mean that in an exaggerated way, I mean, my eyes were full of tears and I had a lump in my throat. He is an amazing author, and the trial was a horrendous miscarriage of justice.)
Anyway, even if you just like old pictures of Natalie Wood reapplying her lipstick in a knife's blade at the dinner table, or reading anecdotes about Warren Beatty playing piano at Sunday brunch, or hearing how Dominick Dunne's little girl curtsied when she was four and met The Beatles, I suggest picking it up.
I don't often read nonfiction books. I love biographies,
It is no secret at all that I love Hollywood, especially the Golden age. This book is pretty much exclusively about that, ONLY WITH SOME KENNEDYS AND BRITISH ROYALTY TOSSED IN. Dominick Dunne like, Forrest Gumped his way through life and wound up meeting everyone worth knowing in the 50s and 60s. This book is really like a giant scrapbook- big font, lots and lots of pictures, fun anecdotes scattered about- but enough text that I really got a feel for their opulent, almost unbelievable lives then. (And then I flipping started reading Dominick Dunne's book Fatal Charms, which is a collection of essays he wrote for Vanity Fair. The first one is "Justice," which is about his daughter's murder trial, and I literally had to stop reading it because I was about to start crying in the library at school- and when I say "about to" I don't mean that in an exaggerated way, I mean, my eyes were full of tears and I had a lump in my throat. He is an amazing author, and the trial was a horrendous miscarriage of justice.)
Anyway, even if you just like old pictures of Natalie Wood reapplying her lipstick in a knife's blade at the dinner table, or reading anecdotes about Warren Beatty playing piano at Sunday brunch, or hearing how Dominick Dunne's little girl curtsied when she was four and met The Beatles, I suggest picking it up.
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