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“I started out in a green house with a red door in a small town, where mysteries abounded.”

Born With Teeth by Kate Mulgrew

June 21, 2023 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

Voyager is my favorite Star Trek series so I was interested to read this book and learn more about Kate Mulgrew’s life. She is a very lyrical writer with a great eye for detail — having read other celebrity memoirs before, you can tell when one is ghostwritten and this one read as if it was purely her own effort. She has a strong voice and is able to really capture a scene and the elements that make it powerful. Her writing elevates this beyond […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #memoir, acting, Celebrity Memoir, kate mulgrew

GentleRain's CBR15 Review No:25 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #memoir, acting, Celebrity Memoir, kate mulgrew ·
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DNF Part 1: Crossing these off my list

The Greek Myths by Robert Graves

Troy by Stephen Fry

I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom

Paris Dallencourt Is About to Crumble by Alexis Hall

June 15, 2023 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

Here is the first batch of “did not finish” for CBR 15. Troy by Stephen Fry The audio book was 11 hours. Listened to about half of it. Skipped quite a bit. Still didn’t finish it. I read Mythos and thought that the audiobook version of Troy would be easier to digest. It was not. Greek Myths by Robert Graves This is basically an encyclopedia of Greek myths. Maybe you can use this as some sort of reference material. But I could not get through […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR15 passport, Alexis Hall, CBR15Passport, Celebrity Memoir, DNF, gay romance, greek mythology, mythology, queer romance, Rachel bloom, robert graves, Stephen Fry

carmelpie's CBR15 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR15 passport, Alexis Hall, CBR15Passport, Celebrity Memoir, DNF, gay romance, greek mythology, mythology, queer romance, Rachel bloom, robert graves, Stephen Fry ·
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Failing up and into my heart

Party of One by Dave Holmes

April 19, 2023 by carmelpie 1 Comment

“What to the untrained eye looked like vegging out in front of the television was actually me silently plotting a way to crawl inside.” “Looking back, I think my family raised me right. There were probably some lessons about decency and fairness and manners in there somewhere – who can remember? – but the main thing my parents and brothers taught me by example was how to appreciate pop culture and music. I want to thank them and also explain to them that I am […]

Filed Under: Featured, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Celebrity Memoir, dave holmes, LGBTQ author, the nineties

carmelpie's CBR15 Review No:5 · Genres: Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: Celebrity Memoir, dave holmes, LGBTQ author, the nineties ·
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A Terribly Sad Book That Probably Shouldn’t Have Been Written at This Point in Time

Spare by Prince Harry

January 28, 2023 by GentleRain 2 Comments

Honestly, where to begin with this one considering the amount of ink already spilled about it and the endless interviews. I am coming at this from the point of view of someone most interested in pre-WWI royalty, and as someone who is interested in the generational reverberations of child abuse. I am not that invested in who is right in the current generational struggle or really in any of the individuals in this book, and I tried to approach my reading with a fairly open […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Celebrity Memoir, family drama, generational trauma, grief, Prince Harry, psychological abuse

GentleRain's CBR15 Review No:7 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: Celebrity Memoir, family drama, generational trauma, grief, Prince Harry, psychological abuse ·
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“If you are a shy one, then please try not to settle for living in your isolation cage.”

And Away... by Bob Mortimer

October 17, 2022 by GentleRain 1 Comment

CBR14Bingo: Funky (It’s a good adjective for Bob Mortimer) Honestly I find this cover scary and have to keep it turned over so I’m not confronted with Bob Mortimer’s face all the time, but I do think it sums up his wacky charm, as well as the dark undercurrent in his work. And Away… is a celebrity comedian memoir, but one by a very smart and thoughtful man, and it has a depth of feeling to it that other memoirs under the celebrity umbrella can […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Bob Mortimer, cbr14bingo, Celebrity Memoir, comedian

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:102 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: Bob Mortimer, cbr14bingo, Celebrity Memoir, comedian ·
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Gemini Soul

Let Love Rule by Lenny Kravitz

January 27, 2021 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

I did not set out to read back to back hippie-esq A lister’s memoirs but Lenny Kravitz’s memoir, Let Love Rule, happened to become available on Overdrive the same week Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey was so here we are. If I had to choose between the two I would say Lenny’s story was more captivating and overall a better fit for my memoir preference. This is clearly a “first” memoir because he stops right as his first album is released but that is partly why it is […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Celebrity Memoir, Lenny Kravitz, Let Love Rule

Caitlin_D's CBR13 Review No:2 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Celebrity Memoir, Lenny Kravitz, Let Love Rule ·
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