Tagged with actors
The Last Black Unicorn
reviewdate:
May 27 2019
isn:
9781501181849
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Yes, My Accent Is Real: And Some Things I Haven't Told You
reviewdate:
May 3 2018
isn:
9781476761855
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This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
reviewdate:
Jul 6 2017
isn:
9780544786905
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Don't Touch
reviewdate:
Apr 17 2017
isn:
9780062220950
Station Eleven
It took me a little while to get into this post-pandemic novel, but once I was in it, I was uncomfortably in the lonely world where only .6% of the population survives a flu outbreak. I'm still not getting a flu shot, btw.
reviewdate:
Jan 8 2015
isn:
978-0-385-35331-1
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Someday, Someday, Maybe
Like with First Spring Grass Fire, you wonder of Someday, Someday, Maybe how much of the story of a young aspiring actor in NYC written by a former young aspiring actor in NYC is autobiographical. While reading it I was thinking that it's possible that fictionalizing one's life might make it easier to tell the emotional truth.
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I grasp onto the nearby silver pole, steadying myself as the train lurches along, my hand slipping on the smooth surface, vying for a safe position along with half a dozen other hands. Today, everything about New York leaves me feeling like I'm competing for space, and just barely hanging on.
reviewdate:
May 8 2013
isn:
978-0-345-53274-9
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Third Girl from the Left
This is one of the best literary novels I’ve read in recent memory. I’ve been too mentally fatigued to enjoy much but genre fiction lately. Lucky Third Girl is both an easy and satisfying read. It tells the story of three generations of African-American women: a woman scarred by a 1921 race riot in Tulsa, her daughter who went to Hollywood to be a movie star and instead became a Playboy bunny and blaxploitation bit player in the 1970s, and then her daughter, who aspire to be a filmmaker in present day New York.
reviewdate:
Oct 27 2011
isn:
0-618-47023-9