Thank you Amy for this amazing birthday package 🎉🎊❤️ can‘t wait to read this one! Love the wrapping paper too!
#LitsyLove
pickI started listening to this audiobook on 3/26/24 and finished tonight. I had to wait for holds, I was reading other books in between, but it has been a constant companion. I watched some of her films, and I enjoyed the experience thoroughly. What an accomplished woman and an inspiration. I‘m a bit melancholy I finished it. I learned so much and I appreciate her much more now than ever. Highly recommend!
pickI have a new love for Barbra after listening to this 48+hour audiobook. Easily the longest I‘ve ever listened to, but was never bored. She recounts nearly her entire life, starting in Brooklyn with a single mother, her father passed when she was about 18 months. From an independent young woman turning into a do-it-all genius powerhouse. I loved hearing about the causes she‘s supported and politics she‘s influenced. More amazing than I ever knew!
pickThis is like a mini trove of delights of his movies, excerpts from interviews and articles to highlight del Toro's work. Author's is a huge fan, and for an unofficial & unauthorized book, the author does a great job of collecting a lot of data that is probably common or known and mixes it with beautiful images from the various del Toro films and even some of the different inspirations that del Toro has mentioned.
bailedI loved listening to the first third of this book! Such a fascinating look behind the curtain of Broadway and Hollywood. Barbra‘s narration and sound clips were so perfect. Unfortunately I got bogged down with the political stuff 30% in and had to return it to the library because my loan was up. Don‘t know if I feel like placing another hold.
#AboutABook #PhotoChallenge
I haven‘t participated in the monthly photo challenge in forever so am going to try to post every day in August.
#Publishedin2023
Storygraph says I have 93 unread books published in 23 😱. Pictured are 2 audio, 2 nonfiction and 2 BOTM books of that 93.
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
so-soMy feelings about this book are complicated. I didn't care for the characters in the first half. I was honestly annoyed with all of them throughout the book. It had a fairly simple storyline, and it only half appealed to me. I didn't particularly care for it. However, it had some touching moments. And it was those moments that really made the book worth it. I wish we had more of them.
pickI started this in print but the book proved too heavy for bathtub reading so I switched to audio and I must say, give yourself this gift. Allow Babs to read her memoirs to you. Every song, every aside, it's just the best possible way to take in this story. Am I obsessed with Barbra Streisand? Yes. Does she deserve my adoration, undoubtedly so. She deserves yours as well.
