This is not the book I thought it would be; I assumed that with a movie tie in book cover this was the book that inspired the 2010 Academy Award winning movie The King’s Speech but instead it is a book written by Logue’s grandson after being approached by film producers and inspired to learn more about his father’s father. However, it is a fairly unattached biography that leads me to believe co-author Conradi was the primary writer and the duo traded on the younger Logue’s name […]
“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”
Hedy Lamarr was a fascinating woman. She was billed as “the most beautiful woman in the world”, and she truly was gorgeous, but she was also brilliant, creative, and confident. Not that men wanted her for anything but her looks while she was alive. Hedy was born in Vienna in 1914 to a wealthy banker and his wife. She knew from a young age that she wanted to be an actress, and by the time she was a teenager, she was on the stage. After […]
Humans are the worst
Bear with me, I’m about to try to get you to read a nonfiction book about a species of fish. One of my best reading years as an adult occurred a few years back when I was tearing through a lot of non-fiction food books. So when one of the contributors to the site Serious Eats mentioned that “Cod” had a permanent place on his kitchen bookshelf, I made a mental note to pick it up the next time I went to the library. Well, […]
Fight the Power
This short (115 page) treatise comprises two lectures which noted Cambridge academic and classicist Mary Beard delivered in 2014 and 2017. In these lectures, “The Public Voice of Women” and “Women in Power,” Beard examines the classical roots of the silencing of women’s voices and its effect on women in the modern Western world. Ultimately, in considering how women might truly become “voices of authority,” Beard suggests a reconsideration of “power” itself. In the first essay, Beard takes the reader back 3,000 years to demonstrate […]
A Non-Western Immigration Story
Buzzfeed actually had a semi useful quiz a few weeks ago along the lines of, “answer these questions, and we’ll recommend a book.” My result was Pachinko so when I saw it prominently displayed at Barnes and Noble, I figured it meant I should go ahead and get it. Pachinko is one of those books that is always harder to review because while very well done, as a multi-generational family drama, there is a certain amount of familiarity to the general strokes of the story. “Poor […]
Learn from Women Who Dared
Working in an independent bookstore means you get to be exposed to many different genres, but I always go back to my favorite: children’s literature. Being a fiction gal means non-fiction is rarely fun. But Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebel is grand fun. Fifty-two women who have shaped the world by doing things “women are not supposed to do” are introduced with one page biographies. Most were women rarely (if ever) heard of. A few (such as Bessie Coleman) […]
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