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Making the Sausage – Hollywood Style

The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg

July 18, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

cbr17bingo Arts Schulberg, the son of a successful Hollywood producer, is probably best known for his screenplays (On the Waterfront, A Face in the Crowd), but he started as a novelist with What Makes Sammy Run?, about a Hollywood publicist. This book follows about ten years later, and is the thinly fictionalized story of an ill-fated trip Schulberg made with F. Scott Fitzgerald, to Dartmouth.  Fitzgerald was nearing the end of his life and was trying to scrape together cash by working on screenplays for […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Actually true story, Budd Schulberg, cbr17bingo, College musical, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Factory Hollywood, Love on Ice, Major drinking, Old School Hollywood, Perils of hero worship

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Actually true story, Budd Schulberg, cbr17bingo, College musical, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Factory Hollywood, Love on Ice, Major drinking, Old School Hollywood, Perils of hero worship ·
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“You became like water. . . You’re soft . . . but powerful.”

Out on a Limb by Hannah Bonam-Young

July 18, 2025 by Tracy 2 Comments

cbr17bingo: O I very rarely cry when I read a book, but this made me almost tear up a couple of times, in the best way, because of some poignant interactions between the characters, including main characters Win and Bo. They meet at mutual friends’ Halloween party, bond over each having a limb difference, and hook up with the intention of having a one night stand. When Win ends up pregnant, they decide to get to know each other as friends and co-parent the baby […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Disability rep, Hannah Bonam-Young, limb differences, pregnancy

Tracy's CBR17 Review No:49 · Genres: Romance · Tags: cbr17bingo, Disability rep, Hannah Bonam-Young, limb differences, pregnancy ·
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Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon

Girl in a Band: A Memoir

Girl in a Band: A Memoir by Kim Gordon

July 18, 2025 by llp Leave a Comment

I have to confess I have never been a particular fan of Sonic Youth. I would read about them in Sassy, but I didn’t really hear much of their music other than when the Kool Thing video played on Much Music, and I just didn’t really love it. The band had an aura of cool (New York, friends with Chloe Sevigny, etc) that felt really beyond me because I just did not get it. However, I was in a used record store this spring and […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Featured, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, cbr17, cbr17bingo, kim gordon, non fiction, Sonic Youth

llp's CBR17 Review No:7 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, cbr17, cbr17bingo, kim gordon, non fiction, Sonic Youth ·
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”Life is very short and there’s no time for fussing and fighting my friend”

John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie

July 17, 2025 by ElCicco 1 Comment

Cbr17bingo Arts Like millions around the world, I am a Beatles fan. An obsession developed when I was about 12 years old and lasted through my high school years. I spent all my money on Beatles records. They were my first real music love. Many decades have passed since then but my love was renewed when I saw Peter Jackson’s Get Back documentary on Disney+ a few years ago. And thanks to Facebook’s algorithm, my feed has been flooded with Beatles-related posts ever since. As […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr17, cbr17bingo, ElCicco, Ian Leslie, John & Paul, non fiction, The Beatles

ElCicco's CBR17 Review No:30 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr17, cbr17bingo, ElCicco, Ian Leslie, John & Paul, non fiction, The Beatles ·
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Cover of Apothecary Diaries manga Volume 1

Pick your poison

Apothecary Diaries (manga), vols. 1-13 by Hyūga, Natsu, Nekokurage, et. al

July 17, 2025 by vega-table Leave a Comment

Bingo row 5 – white Anyone else notice that manga with women and girls as protagonists tend to have white-based covers and spines? I don’t know if that’s a trend or coincidentally what I read. The Apothecary Diaries from author Natsu Hyūga is an ongoing series in the form of light novels (aka easy to read books with pictures), two manga series, and an anime. So that’s four simultaneously ongoing series of the same story and despite what people on Reddit say, they’re all about […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Hyūga, Natsu, Nekokurage, et. al

vega-table's CBR17 Review No:21 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: cbr17bingo, Hyūga, Natsu, Nekokurage, et. al ·
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The title says it all

Death of the Author by Okorafor, Nnendi

July 17, 2025 by vega-table Leave a Comment

Bingo row 1- review I’ve been a fan of Nnendi Okorafor for a while, but her books have always been vaguely unpleasant. Not because they’re bad, but because they hit something in my psyche that is very tender. Every time I finish one of her works, I say that’s the last one. I don’t have time to need recovery from a book. And then, she draws me back in. Death of the Author came out earlier this year and everyone loved it. I’ve seen Okorafor’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Okorafor, Nnendi

vega-table's CBR17 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, Okorafor, Nnendi ·
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