Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
reviewdate:
Dec 29 2019
isn:
9780316364577
Tagged with dysfunctional families
A Woman Is No Man
reviewdate:
Jul 15 2019
isn:
9780062699787
book type:
Run
reviewdate:
Jun 27 2019
isn:
9780545831154
The Disturbed Girl's Dictionary
reviewdate:
Oct 24 2017
isn:
9781512439762
recommendation:
Radical
reviewdate:
Aug 15 2017
isn:
9780763674144
recommendation:
Paper Life, a
I love all of Tatum O'Neal's child-star movies and her in them--especially Paper Moon (well, yeah, the book was better, but what can you do?), The Bad News Bears and Little Darlings. O'Neal's autobio fills us in on the horror behind her success. The nine-year-old youngest-ever winner of an Academy Award went to the ceremony sans her selfish, druggie parents. If this tell-all is even half-true, O'Neal's parents, stepmother Farrah Fawcett and husband John McEnroe were serious douches to her.
reviewdate:
Oct 8 2013
isn:
0-06-054097-4
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book type:
Girl Made of Dust
An eight-year-old, as sympathetic as she may be, is not always the most reliable narrator. I think Abi-Ezzi counts on the reader to understand what her protagonist Ruba isn't able to explain. Or maybe the storytelling just isn't that great. The premise--a Christian family trying to get by in Lebanon in the early 1980s--is compelling enough, but I just didn't buy into the drama of the fucked up father and the terrible secret from his past.
reviewdate:
Mar 3 2010
isn:
978-0-8021-1895-0