I picked these up from the Book Swap on the way home from pole dancing on Monday night.
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I picked these up from the Book Swap on the way home from pole dancing on Monday night.
BUSY day yesterday but I made time to open my #LittleChristmasSwap just before bed. @CSeydel ~ I am thrilled with used books. I always add my books to my Little Free Library after reading them. The chocolates 🍫, though, won‘t be shared. @bookish_wookish Thank you for a great swap to cap my holidays!
My favorite line from this book is: “You saw what I wanted you to see and what you expected to see. Things are not always as they appear.“
The main characters in this book are: Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, Baroness Emma Orczy, Margery Allingham, and Ngaio Marsh. Five authors from 1931.
This book is very good.
Full review: https://lsmoore49.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-queens-of-crime-by-marie-benedict.htm...
pickA fictional take on the life of Hedy Lamarr, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, up to the WWII. As a young woman, Hedy stars in a play onstage & gains an admirer. He is a powerful Austrian arms dealer, & may be the key to allowing her & her family to evade Nazi persecution despite their Jewish heritage. Her husband turns out to be controlling & jealous & when Hedy overhears the Third Reich's plans at a dinner party one night, she decides to flee.
so-soElla Fitzgerald is one of my favorite singers. I don‘t know much about Marilyn Monroe, so it was interesting and sad to learn more about her life. I was impressed with how strong Ella was. She stayed away from all alcohol and drugs, in contrast to Marilyn who struggled severely. She stood up for herself professionally and personally, despite race and attractiveness. Both struggled with difficult childhoods, men, and fertility.
Thank you so much @Meshell1313 for this book & chocolate! I love this author & am excited to read this #historicalfiction about Margaret Fuller, the heady times she lived in, & the transcendentalists she interacted with. I plan to start tonight right after our traditional lasagna dinner. I imagine you crafted the card? It‘s now an ornament on my tree! #jolabokaflodswap
Thank you so much for organizing this @MaleficentBookDragon !
Monica is soo ready for a lazy reading day. Thank you so much @staci.reads and @MaleficentBookDragon for hosting this years #jolabokflod (she was sniffing the chocolate too much so the other one is not pictured 😅)
December 14th #ChristmasCheer Bell #WinterGames24 #HolidayBookDragons @StayCurious @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
