Tuesday, July 21, 2020

2020 Summer Reading Challenge: First Round-Up




It's that time again! It's time to share all of the wonderful reviews that the participants of this year's Summer Reading Challenge (winter for those of you on the Southern Hemisphere!) have been writing. I have a whopping 38 participants this year including my husband who joined at the last minute. And I'm so proud of this eager group of classic film lovers because they have really dived into their TBR stacks with great enthusiasm. I encourage you to read every single one of these reviews (I did myself, why shouldn't you?)

Happy reading!


Andy at AndyWolverton.com
Painting with Light by John Alton
The Psycho File by Joseph W. Smith III
The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin

Breanna of Bresfilms41
The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan
Jimmy Stewart by Marc Eliot
Olivier by Anthony Holden

Carlos of Live Fast Look Good
The Man Who Seduced Hollywood: The Life and Loves of Greg Bautzer, Tinseltown's Most Powerful Lawyer by B. James Gladstone
Hollywood Godfather: The Life and Crimes of Billy Wilkerson by W.R. Wilkerson III

Jess of Box Office Poisons




Lee from Lee Mac on YouTube
Christmas Holiday by W. Somerset Maugham
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: My Life by Sophia Loren
TBR list

Pacia of Sylvia Plath, Shirley Jackson, and Dorothy Parker Walk into a Bar…
Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood by Karina Longworth
West of Eden: An American Place by Wendy Vanden Heuvel




Raquel of Out of the Past
Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, The Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock by Christina Lane

Rich of Wide Screen World
The Real Tinsel by Bernard Rosenberg and Harry Silverstein

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Robby on Instagram
Growing Up in Disneyland by Ron DeFore

Sarah from Goodreads

American Prince: A Memoir by Tony Curtis


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Shawn of The Everyday Cinephile
Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity by Jacqueline Najuma Stewart

Steve from Goodreads
Hank and Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart by Scott Eyman
The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend by Glenn Frankel

Vanessa of Super Veebs
Complicated Women: Sex & Power in Pre-Code Hollywood by Mick LaSalle
Swanson on Swanson by Gloria Swanson
The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
Silent Stars by Jeanine Basinger


If I missed your review, make sure you submitted it to the Book Review Links form at the bottom of the challenge page.

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