Bingo Square: AlabamaPink In a fairly by-the-numbers biography, Donald Spoto follows Audrey from her childhood in Nazi-occupied Holland, to her years studying dance, her sudden rise to stardom after Gigi and Roman Holiday, her marriages and romantic life, motherhood, and her later work for UNICEF. I can’t say if this is a good biography of Hepburn or not – in terms of what it covers about her life. I am only vaguely familiar with her personal life after watching a Jennifer Love Hewitt film and […]
CBR10 Bingo: Alabama Pink and a third Bingo
Lollygagger recently reviewed a different book, Wicked, for the same Bingo Square- Alabama Pink- and came away with the realization that they would probably not have belonged in the same book club. I agree; Enchantment was the only book that interested me from the list of books Alabama Pink was able to read and review before her untimely death (I have yet to muster the motivation for our upcoming Book Club selection) and it was severely disappointing. I do wonder though, is it possible to glean a complete […]
Audrey is Great. This Book? Not So Much. (CBR10Bingo)
When we were voting for the AlabamaPink book club this book was my second choice (even though I don’t vote my first choice was Between the Bridge and the River and I’ll be talking about my feelings on that one in my next review) so choosing this for the Alabama Pink bingo square made perfect sense to me. I like biographies, Audrey Hepburn, and classic Hollywood – done and done. I am however left underwhelmed by the reading experience of this book. I think it […]