Category: Biography
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Review: ROBIN by Dave Izkoff
BIG thanks to Henry Holt for providing my free copy of ROBIN by Dave Itzkoff – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Dave Itzkoff shows in this revelatory biography, Williams’s comic brilliance masked a deep well of conflicting emotions and self-doubt, which he drew upon in his comedy and in celebrated films like Dead Poets…
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Review: BARRACOON by Zora Neale Hurston
Thank you so much to Harper Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the…
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Book Mail: HARRY by Katie Nicholl
Thank you so much Little Bird Publicity and Hachette Books for sending me this lovely free copy! Does anyone else like reading books about the British Monarchy? I am obsessed! I’m so fascinated by Queen Victoria, Henry V, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, George VI and now Queen Elizabeth II thanks to my undying love for…
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Book Mail: THE ONLY GIRL IN THE WORLD by Maude Julien
I love memoirs–they are personal, emotional, and inspiring. This has been on my radar for a long time and it sounds so heartbreaking. Thank you so much to the fabulous Little, Brown and Company for sending me a free copy! SYNOPSIS: Maude Julien’s parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn…