Buried Alive by Myra Friedman William Morrow & Company, 1973 [Challenge # 12 : A book where music features prominently, or about musicians.] As a singer Janis Joplin is, unfortunately, something of a museum piece now. Her icon status has faded with the decades, unlike her contemporaries Aretha Franklin and Dolly Parton, both of whom …
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Sep 07
M Train [Review]
- By Cobalt Jade in Reviews
M Train by Patti Smith Alfred A. Knopf, 2015 I read this book as a challenge for Seattle Public Library. Every summer they have a book bingo game, and if you fill in a row of five (the center square is free) you are entered in a contest. Each square is for a book of …
May 23
A Wizard of Earthsea [Reading Challenge 2019]
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin Bantam, 1975 (originally published 1968) [Challenge # 49: A book you loved as a child.] Oh Earthsea, Earthsea, how little I knew thee! For my childhood revisit read for this years’ challenge, I chose Ursula K. LeGuin’s A Wizard of Earthsea. I had read it way back …
Oct 30
The Queen of Vampires
- By Cobalt Jade in Erotica, Horror
Sleek, stylish, discrete. All hail the Queen of Vampires, Catherine Deneuve, from the 1980 horror movie The Hunger.
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