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A family that reads together... loves to read? I dunno, I couldn't come up with anything clever, but @WildAlaskaBibliophile and I had some nice reading time this afternoon reading and cuddling with our familiars 😁

In this book, author Jeff Guinn, looks at the truth behind the headlines & the folk-myths about the notorious couple. Bonnie & Clyde - as usual the reality fails to live up to the 'glamorous' hype. They were certainly not master criminals, nearly everything they tried was either bungled or foiled due to bad luck & timing. Alongside a jail break (that Clyde got the credit for but didn't actually plan) & several bank hold-ups, (continued)

I don‘t think I‘ve read a nonfiction book that talked about something that is so specifically interesting to me. I need Mr. Harris to write a deep dive about every year in Oscar history.

I‘ve been looking forward to this since devouring book 1 a few years ago. I saved it as long as I could, then finally jumped in. I decided to go with the #audiobook and got hooked. The narrator is fabulous. The author does a great job going into more detail with the historical facts while also really humanizing Bonnie, Clyde, Buck and Blanche. You know what‘s coming at the end, yet you still hope things will work out for them in the end. 5⭐️

I love reading about this time period and I love classic movies, so this was right up my alley. It‘s strange to think about how revolutionary these films were in their time when they are so ingrained into the popular consciousness of film today. It got to a point that I was just tired of hearing about Dr. Doolittle, despite the hilarious dumpster fire it became. The narrator was fine, but nothing special. Recommend for fans of classic film. 4 ⭐️

In “Pictures at a Revolution,” author Mark Harris tracks the creation of the five movies — Bonnie and Clyde, Doctor Doolittle, The Graduate, Guess Who‘s Coming to Dinner and In the Heat of the Night — that competed for the Best Picture Oscar in 1967.
“Pictures” uses the stories behind those films to chart the clash of Old versus New Hollywood at a time of national upheaval. It‘s a dazzling look at the intersection of movies, culture and politics.

These are all potential reads for the #LittenListen Audioathon in June. I have so many audiobooks that have been piling up in Audible. Since I paused my subscription now is a perfect time to catch up and check some of these off my list.

A belated #bookreport from #hiselderliness

He enjoyed Birdmen, the story of the Wright Brothers, although he said “it‘s a bit complicated for my poor old brain” with lots of characters to remember. “They never proved who was the first in it, either”
Nearly finished The Wild Trees which he seems to be loving as he spent some time explaining to me how they slingshot a thin line up into the trees so they can get their rope up. ⬇️

This was so well-researched. If it‘s not (it might already be), it should be the go-to book about the two of them. It was slow to read, but nonfiction often is. It was fascinating and I was interested all the way through. There were multiple confrontations and shootouts, so I did get a few confused toward the end, and some of the criminals who came and went from the “Barrow Gang” also got a bit confusing, but overall, this was really good.

#GoldCover
#NamasteNovember

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