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#TuesdayBookBlog FIVE TIMES LUCKY by P. David Temple The perfect antidote for these colourless times #comedy

Posted on March 16, 2021 by OlgaNunez

Hi all: I bring you a funny book. I needed a change, and I thought you might enjoy it as well. Five Times Lucky by P. David Temple The perfect antidote for these colourless times In FIVE TIMES LUCKY, an intrepid traveler gets more than her share of tabloid celebrity. Who hasn’t wondered what life was like inside

Posted in Book review, Book reviews, Tuesday Book Blog acting, California, celebrity cult, comedy, dogs, fame, fun, Hollywood, labradoodles, Native American, P. David Temple, WWF

#Bookreview FALLEN IDOLS: A CENTURY OF SCREEN SEX SCANDALS (IMAGES OF THE PAST) by Nigel Blundell (@penswordbooks) Great pictures and a reminder

Posted on February 25, 2019 by OlgaNunez

Dear all: I bring you another one of Pen & Sword’s books, one for those of you who love movies and photographs of the Hollywood of the Big Studios and its tarnished stars. Fallen Idols: A Century of Screen Sex Scandals (Images of the Past) by Nigel Blundell (@penswordbooks) Great pictures, some amusing and some

Posted in Book review, Book reviews, Non-fiction actors, celebrities, Hollywood, Images of the past, Movie stars, non-fiction, Pen & Sword, photography, pictures, sex-scandals

#TuesdayBookBlog BETTE & JOAN: THE DIVINE FEUD by Shaun Considine Entertaining, funny, full of memorable quotes, and an irresistible insider’s view of the Hollywood of the studio era. #Bookreview #Hollywood

Posted on March 20, 2018 by OlgaNunez

Hi all: Today I bring you the review of a book about two women ‘bigger than life’. Bette & Joan: The Divine Feud by Shaun Considine They were two of the most talented beauties Hollywood ever produced: the elegant Joan Crawford, a former chorus girl who shot through the ranks at MGM, and the brash, tempestuous Bette

Posted in Book review, Book reviews Bette Davis, big studios, Feud, Hollywood, Joan Crawford, M.G.M., movies, Warner Bros, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

2 Brand new books and #bookreviews. WEAR AND TEAR by Tracy Tynan (@tynanthreads) and UNDERGROUND AIRLINES by Ben H. Winters (@BenHWinters) Very different but they’ll make you think.

Posted on July 15, 2016 by OlgaNunez

Hi all: As you know I’ve been sharing new books and reviews recently. These two have just been published this week (the first one only available in hard cover at first) and I thought they might appeal to very different readers, but I enjoyed them both (in very different ways). First: Wear and Tear: The

Posted in Book reviews, New books alternative history, Ben H Winters, clothes designer, dystopia, Elaine Dundy, Fashion, historical fiction, Hollywood, Kenneth Tynan, Net Galley, racism, slavery, theatre critic, Tracy Tynan