The County Library discussion

Can you believe it's March? I feel like last month just flew by. In honor of the recently held Oscars, your challenge this month is to read something about Hollywood!

Check out nonfiction titles like Hollywood Then and Now, Hollywood Horrors: Murders, Scandals, and Cover-Ups from Tinseltown, Hollywood Fashion: 100 Years of Hollywood Icons, or Hollywood Hellraisers: The Wild Lives and Fast Times of Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty, and Jack Nicholson.

You can try biographies of famous actors like Scrappy Little Nobody, orThe Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family, or Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend, or Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years.

If fiction is more your speed, try His Girl Hollywood, or Celebrity Crush, or Long Island Compromise, or Invisible Woman.

If you're interested in learning more about the golden ago of Hollywood, make sure you register for our March Lecture, Icons of Hollywood's Golden Age: Deanna Durbin and Judy Garland.

You can register here:
thecountylibrary.org/LectureSeries

Woo hoo! I was getting worried about you.

Teresa wrote: "Woo hoo! I was getting worried about you."

Nope just busy. Sorry!

I read Making It So by Making It So It was the best memoir that I have read in a long time. The audiobook is amazing. I could listen to him read his shopping list. I loved hearing about this experiences before, during, and after his time in Hollywood.

I read A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime by Casey Sherman.

3/3 for 2025

Carolyn wrote: "I read Making It So by Making It So It was the best memoir that I have read in a long time. The audiobook is amazing. I could listen to him read his shopping list...."

That's a good reminder that I need to listen to that. I love him.

Greg wrote: "I read
A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime
by Casey Sherman.

3/3 for 2025"

Ooh, Lana Turner is one of those Hollywood stars whose name I know, but I don't think I've seen any of her movies, with maybe the exception of Ziegfeld Girl. I wonder what's streaming for free with her in it.

What did you think of the book?

If anyone wants to attend the Virtual Lecture | Icons of Hollywood's Golden Age: Deanna Durbin & Judy Garland, it's tonight at 7 pm. You can still register at thecountylibrary.org/LectureSeries

The Library Big Read this month would qualify if you haven't selected a book yet, I think. The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel by ReShonda Tate

I'm going to read the fake biography "Look Out for the Little Guy" by Scott Lang (aka Antman played by Paul Rudd)

Clancy wrote: "I'm going to read the fake biography "Look Out for the Little Guy" by Scott Lang (aka Antman played by Paul Rudd)"

I enjoyed that one.

I finished reading How to Kiss a Movie Star for this challenge. It was a cute but slightly predictable rom-com.

I read Thea Stilton and the Hollywood Hoax. It was a fun children's book

Elizabeth wrote: "Greg wrote: "I read
A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime
by Casey Sherman.

3/3 for 2025"

Ooh, Lana Turner is one of those Hollywood stars whose name I kn..."

Interesting book. Definitely puts Lana Turner in a bad light.

I completed The Hollywood Daughter by Kate Alcott on 3/17. I would give it 2.5 stars. I will also try and finish The Queen of Sugar Hill this month, but might run out of month first.

I read To Boldly Go: How Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek Helped Advance Civil Rights.

Loving all of the Star Trek Love, btw. That's at least two books about actors from the scifi show. :D

Greg wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "Greg wrote: "Definitely puts Lana Turner in a bad light..."

Oh see, now I'm intrigued. I saw that some people think she did it, and blamed her daughter. Even going as far to say that her testimony on the stand was the best acting she ever did.

I don’t know why I keep forgetting about these monthly challenges! Well, maybe I’ll start back in April. I always get such great ideas from you all.

Darin wrote: "I don’t know why I keep forgetting about these monthly challenges! Well, maybe I’ll start back in April. I always get such great ideas from you all."

Yes, you should absolutely remember to visit these challenges. :D

I have a reminder in my calendar on the first of every month.

Teresa wrote: "I have a reminder in my calendar on the first of every month."

That's a good way to keep track.

Only a few more days to let me know if you've finished a book that fits the theme!

Does reading Cher: the memoir count for this? Or more specifically Hollywood golden?

The closest I came was The Penny Mansions, which has a play in it. Probably doesn't count.

Whitney wrote: "Does reading Cher: the memoir count for this? Or more specifically Hollywood golden?"

That counts! In general, if you think it counts, it counts. But, I also think this counts. :D

Cher not only had a music career, but a film and tv career. (I think one of my mom's favorite movies is Moonstruck.)

Deborah is our prize drawing winner for March’s reading challenge for reading How to Kiss a Movie Star by Jenny Proctor.

Congratulations!