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Tittle Tattle in Georgian London

The Real Bridgerton by Catherine Curzon

April 22, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

This book guides us through a century of aristocratic scandals, covering both stories that are well-known today and others that have faded from public memory, discussing adultery, murder, and even incest. I read an awful lot of historical romance, and many Regency romances use the plot device of social ruin being carried around town by scandal sheets. Having read this book though, I am rather astonished that these fictional scandals managed to shock anyone at all, considering what the aristocracy was really getting up too! […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, ARC, Catherine Curzon, celebrity, England, Georgian, gossip, NetGalley, royalty

Pooja's CBR15 Review No:28 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, ARC, Catherine Curzon, celebrity, England, Georgian, gossip, NetGalley, royalty ·
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Iheard this was a good book

The Iheards by Emily Kilgore

July 15, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr14bingo Question Level 2   What are The Iheards? Emily Kilgore answers that in their book of the same name. And that was the question I asked myself when I saw the cover, and why I have chosen it for the Question category. Well, first I said, “Well that’s a bright cover. What is it about?” Then I saw, The Iheards. Then I said, “What are the Iheards?” And I assumed they were probably rumors and I was right. It is about the rumors and […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Health Tagged With: cbr14bingo, Emily Kilgore, friendship, gossip, rumors, school, Social Theme, Zoe Persico

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:379 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Health · Tags: cbr14bingo, Emily Kilgore, friendship, gossip, rumors, school, Social Theme, Zoe Persico ·
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out of the way, Mr. Hughes. Let the real stars shine.

Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood by Karina Longworth

May 5, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 4 Comments

You’ve seen The Aviator, yes? If not, maybe you know that it’s about Howard Hughes? Yes- the Spruce Goose guy. Yes, the keep on failing upwards guy. Yes, the “keep your pee in jars” guy. We’ve all heard or seen at least a little bit about Howard Hughes. His reach was wide and heavy, and he swept away businesses, careers, and entire studios in his wake. Karina Longworth, author of Seduction and podcaster extraordinaire, covered Howard Hughes’s Hollywood during a whole season of her phenomenal podcast a […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: 20th Century history, classical Hollywood cinema, gossip, Hollywood, Karina Longworth, Media, Money, Pop Culture, Power, sex, sexism, Show Business, showbiz, studio system, wealth, you must remember this

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:41 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: 20th Century history, classical Hollywood cinema, gossip, Hollywood, Karina Longworth, Media, Money, Pop Culture, Power, sex, sexism, Show Business, showbiz, studio system, wealth, you must remember this ·
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“He Had It Coming, He Only Had Himself to Blame”

One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

June 5, 2018 by Jen K Leave a Comment

I can’t believe how much I liked this novel!  I also was surprised that some of themes addressed in The Dirty Girls Social Club overlapped with this novel since two characters in this novel have similar issues to two characters from my previous read.  Then again, both novels have what could be considered stock characters but imbued them with enough life and personality to make them feel original and interesting so it shouldn’t be that big of a surprise. Another discovery I can blame on […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult Tagged With: gossip, high school drama, karen m mcmanus, one of us is lying

Jen K's CBR10 Review No:105 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: gossip, high school drama, karen m mcmanus, one of us is lying ·
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Scandalous!

Scandals of Classic Hollywood by Anne Helen Petersen

February 27, 2016 by terroringlasses 2 Comments

I don’t remember how I discovered Anne Helen Petersen’s Scandals of Classic Hollywood series over on the Hairpin. But I do remember devouring the latest entries during downtime at my job as a secretary. Petersen let contemporary fans like myself experience the restrictive glamour of stars under the old studio system. She did it with a clever, confidential voice that benefitted from hindsight, and I found the results fascinating. Her blog was a weekly read. The book is more of the same, which feels familiar […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: classic hollywood, gossip, Non-Fiction

terroringlasses's CBR8 Review No:5 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: classic hollywood, gossip, Non-Fiction ·
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Gothic crime and Victorian intrigue

Rustication by Charles Palliser

July 28, 2014 by Valyruh Leave a Comment

A Victorian novel in the form of an epistolary, this is the supposed journal of 17-year-old Richard Shenstone, who has just been sent home, or “rusticated,” from Cambridge because of misdeeds that are only slowly revealed in the course of the novel. Richard has recently learned that his father, once a respected deacon of the church, has died of a heart attack while under suspicion of embezzlement of church funds–and worse–and that his mother and older sister are living in dire circumstances in a delapidated […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: gossip, murder, opium, torture, Victorian era

Valyruh's CBR6 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: gossip, murder, opium, torture, Victorian era ·
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