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…
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz | Book Review
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz Genres: Biography, Food Original Publication Date: 2012 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Twitter, Goodreads, Amazon The definitive biography of Julia Child. Bob Spitz takes us beyond the image of Child as the tall, eccentric woman with a funny voice who taught America how to cook. He establishes her as a genuine rebel and beloved icon, a woman who redefined herself in middle age, and helped to change the role of women in America, set the standard for how to create a public personality in the modern media world, and altered the way America eats and…
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot | Book Review
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Genres: Biography, Illness, Medicine, Science Original Publication Date: 2010 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon, Instagram Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine: The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, which are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer,…
Rin Tin Tin: The Life And The Legend by Susan Orlean (2001) | Book Review
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean Genres: Animals, Biography, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2011 Source: Advanced Reading Copy from the publisher. Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Twitter, Goodreads, Amazon He believed the dog was immortal. So begins Susan Orlean’s sweeping, powerfully moving account of Rin Tin Tin’s journey from abandoned puppy to an international movie star who appeared in twenty-seven films throughout the 1920s. Spanning almost one hundred years of history, from the dog’s improbable discovery on a battlefield in 1918 by an American soldier to his tumultuous rise through Hollywood and beyond, this book is a love story and “a masterpiece” (Chicago Tribune) that…
