This book is fine. It doesn’t really do anything wrong. Am I a little bitter than it didn’t explicitly talk about favorite movies? Of course. I, TOO!, AM A CHILD OF THE 80s! But really what it comes down to, is that the advice she gets from Peter Biskind to watch Salvador is the better advice in this book. I KNOW this is not her mission or her goal, but the 80s is chock full of amazing movies in the 80s and really this book takes […]
Book Announcement: #CannonBookClub Reads Non-Fiction
Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies by Hadley Freeman
With nearly 50% of the vote, our book club choice for June is Life Moves Pretty Fast: Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies by Hadley Freeman. Check out the discussion questions, and join the discussion starting June 14th. As always, I hope that if your vote wasn’t our final choice, that you’ll make the time to read both at some point during Cannonball Read 9 (for those that are curious, the runner up was Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann). […]