Tag: hollywood

No 410 Speedbumps by Teri Garr Book 11 of #20booksofsummer21

I am a sucker for a Hollywood memoir and have long been a fan of the wonderful Teri Garr, who I think is one of the best comic actors to have come out of Hollywood. I was keen to read her autobiography for more personal reasons as she has MS, which I too have, and…

No 690 Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub

Despite knowing nothing of Emma Straub (her previous short story collections or her famous father), I had high hopes for Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures. Maybe it was the glamorous cover – I’m shallow like that – or the book’s setting during the Golden Age of Hollywood, but I was hoping for a dramatic, cinematic…