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“Everyone loves a beautiful dead girl.”

Windhall by Ava Barry

March 21, 2021 by Halbs 2 Comments

Windhall is a novel about Hollywood, the way men treat women, fame, obsession, and Los Angeles. Hailey is an antisocial journalist at a counterculture zine turned blog (I think) in LA. He is obsessed with the decades old murder of a Hollywood star at the home of an infamous director. His obsession weaves in with his own family’s story, as well as the DNA of modern day Los Angeles. It’s hard for him to separate the glamour and allure of the city with the facts, […]

“…reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.”

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

February 1, 2021 by Blingle Bells 1 Comment

Next up on my “Pajiba recommendations for sure shot books until I pay my library fines” list – in case anyone is wondering, my fines are paid and I’m now a fully operational library patron again and forevermore – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Basic premise – Evelyn is an aging, reclusive old Hollywood star giving the scoop of a lifetime to a reporter for a Vogue-surrogate magazine. Evelyn is brash, confident, and chilly. Monique, the reporter, is floating along letting her life happen […]

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

January 24, 2021 by jeverett15 2 Comments

In its own way, a near-great novel is just as frustrating to read as a bad one, if not more so. The false notes don’t bother you at a middle-school orchestra performance as much as they would at the Philharmonic. Taylor Jenkins Reid does so much so well in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo that it feels improper to focus so much on the parts I didn’t like, but unfortunately in my case those parts are the ones that stick in my mind so […]

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