pick3.5⭐(Light Pick)
•I feel like this was a bit unfocused and lacked depth. Maybe it needed to pick one genre and stick to it. It seemed to want to dip its toes into as many as possible without fully committing to one. Overall, it had elements that worked and ones that didn‘t work for me.
•The narration performed by Deanna Anthony, Carmel Jewel Jones, & Robin Eller was fantastic.
pickIt took me a while to get into this story, but I am happy I stuck with it. I had a hard time placing myself in the scenes that seemed like one event placed after another. It was the historical timeline and characters that hooked me and got me to care about the present-day ones. This is still a pick.
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pick7-31-24: My 26th finished book of 2024! What a powerful story. When Kitty Karr passes away she leaves her vast fortune to her next door neighbors 3 daughters. Making the oldest, Elise, the executor, she leaves her not only money but her secret life story. Told in present day with Elise and from Kitty‘s perspective from the past, we learn of her humble beginnings, and her rise to fame as a screen icon. It‘s the back story that will shock the world.
pickI read this for the book club I lead at work and was fascinated by Belle's life. I think the most interesting part about her though was her determined effort to erase her personal life from posterity. My only real hesitation about this is that in the notes at the end the authors stated how they did take some liberties with known fact. It's all well and good to use artistic license when there are gaps in the historical record but not when you know.
