Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Story by John O’Dowd | Book Review
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Story by John O'Dowd Genres: Biography Original Publication Date: 2007 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Goodreads, Amazon Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye is about the tragic life of Barbara Payton. She looked like a very promising young starlet in the 1950s, as the beautiful but untrained actress gave good performances in her films. But Barbara could not control her private life, which made more headlines than her films. Mental illness and alcoholism followed. Barbara Payton became one of the most tragic figures in Hollywood history. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Story by John O’Dowd is the very sad true story…
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson | Book Review
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson Narrator: Tony Goldwyn Genres: Crime, History, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2003 (Audiobook 2006) Source: I purchased this audiobook. Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Blog, Twitter, Goodreads, Amazon The 1893 World’s Fair was held in the “White City” of Chicago, Illinois. Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the 20th century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the…
Brain on Fire: My Month Of Madness by Susannah Cahalan | Book Review
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan Genres: Illness, Medicine, Memoir, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2012 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Goodreads, Amazon Brain on fire: One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a “flight risk,” and her medical records—chronicling a month-long hospital stay of which she had no memory at all—showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. Susannah had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: a healthy, ambitious college grad a few months into…
Love Saves the Day by Gwen Cooper | Book Review
Love Saves the Day by Gwen Cooper Genres: American Literature, Fiction Original Publication Date: 2013 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Blog, Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon Love at first sight: When five-week-old kitten Prudence meets a woman named Sarah in a deserted construction site on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, she knows she’s found the human she was meant to adopt. For three years their lives are filled with laughter, tuna, catnaps, music, and the unchanging routines Prudence craves. Then one day Sarah doesn’t come home. From Prudence’s perch on the windowsill, she sees Laura, the daughter who hardly ever comes to visit Sarah, arrive with her…
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman | Book Review
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman Genres: Australian Literature, Fiction Original Publication Date: 2012 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Goodreads, Amazon The Light Between Oceans is about making the wrong decisions. After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries in the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man…
