Book #30

(Book #30!! I'm very excited for this!!)

 

You Must Remember This: Life and Style in Hollywood's Golden Age by Robert J. Wagner

272 pages

 

 

 

This is a book I bet I would have enjoyed more if I had listened to the audio version of it instead of reading it. The book is snippets of stories about the people, places and times in Hollywood from the 1930s and the 1950s. Instead of going chronologically in order, Wagner chooses sections of Hollywood life to talk about at a time, like "Houses and Hotels" or "Nightlife" and covers all decades pertaining to that subject in that chapter.

 

This reads like an old man tell stories of his life and memories (which, it mostly is). And while that can be entertaining, it can also make it easy to be lost when it comes to reading the sections. There were many names mentioned I recognized (Clark Gables, James Dean, Jean Harlow, Fred Astaire to name a few) but many more I was unfamiliar with. I'm sure someone with a much more in-depth knowledge of old Hollywood would pick up on quips and jokes along the way that I did not.

 

For now, I'm taking a break from non-fiction! I'm non-fictioned out!!! Hoping to find some good fiction reads in the next few I've selected.

 

Next up: Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple