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Scandal

Crooked:The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal by Nathan Masters

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As always, I renew my objection that there aren’t more books about the Warren Harding administration. People write off Harding as yet another dull mediocre white guy who briefly served in office before dying. But there’s more! Harding’s time was fascinating, both during and after his death. Ludicrously corrupt politics amidst the background of the Roaring 20s? Come on, now. Anyway, I was hoping this would cover Harding more but instead, it focused on Harry Daugherty and his dirty deeds. And that’s fine. It was […]

I Think It’s Me

Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson

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This review has been difficult to write because this book was good but I didn’t like it. I’m much better when I definitely love or definitely hate something! And this was just…frustrating for me. The story is set over about a week’s time in 1926 London, following a pair of girls who have runaway from York to become stars and inevitably get swallowed in the nightclub scene. And also the ex-field nurse turned librarian who goes to find them. And also the notorious nightclub owner. […]

Hear the 20s Roar

Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age by Debby Applegate

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This is another book where you really have to be deeply invested in the subject matter to enjoy it. Fortunately, it’s right up my alley. 20s, bootlegging, gangsters, New York City. Yes, yes, yes, and yes. It seems as if there was one running thread that connected gangsters like Arnold Rothstein to politicians like Jimmy Walker to entertainers like the Marx brothers to athletes like Jack Dempsey to the upper crust of Manhattan society, it was sex. Specifically the sex Polly Adler provided in her […]

Hemingway is jerk

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

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Last week the BF and I did a Paris-themed date night from the claustrophobic comfort of our condo.  I made a playlist with Edith Piaf, cracked a bottle of wine and put a Youtube tour of the Louvre on in the background.  I also started reading A Moveable Feast, Hemingway’s memoir of his Paris years in the 20’s- I’d been saving it for my next physical trip to the City of Lights, but as that trip might be years out, I thought I’d indulge in […]

Hell, they ain’t even old timey! (CBR12Bingo: The Roaring 20s)

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

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So, I may have fudged the numbers slightly; Winesburg, Ohio technically was published in 1919. That said, eras are funny things – you think of the disco era as the 1970s, but it pushed well into the 80s; you look at the 1990s and forget that the grunge era sidled right up to bubblegum pop with only a couple years in between, I refuse to think of the 2000-2010 era as a discrete entity and everything from about 2005 to present feels like “near past.” […]



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