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  If you need a book that just leaves you saying "Whoa!" then oh boy do I have a book for you. This book is about fifteen-year-old Alice who has been held against her will for the past five years, honestly as a sex slave. The "man" who holds her, Ray, keeps her at home, away from anyone that she could tell, makes claims that Alice is mentally handicapped, so even if she tells anyone, no one would believe her, since he was "such an upstanding man." Also, Ray reminds her fairly often if she tells anyone, he will go and kill Alice's family. Alice knows that Ray will kill her because he keeps talking about her death and Alice is damned if she's not going out without a fight. Now, I'm gonna give heavy trigger warnings for rape and pedophilia. This book is so so so dark and twisted, but honestly probably accurate. I don't want to say more than that because I don't know what else to say because this isn't a long book (under 200 page

           Okay, so most of you know the Sharon Tate murders and her life so this might be a bit on the shorter side, but I don't want to go into details that you already know. So Sharon Tate was born  on January 24, 1943, in Dallas, Texas, and at six months old, Tate won the "Miss Tiny Tot of Dallas Pageant." Being an army brat, Tate had lived in six cities by the age of 16 and found it difficult for her to make friends. She had ambitions to study psychiatry, but her family was relocated to Italy in 1960 and she soon became a local celebrity due to a photograph of her in a swimsuit being the cover of the military newspaper.  She and her friends, who were also army brats, became interested in the filming of Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, and they eventually got to become paid extras in the movie. This paved the way for her film career, and was employed by Pat Boone and appeared in an episode of The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom. She continued to find r

   Okay, so maybe quite of few of Y'all have read this book, but for those of you who haven't, PUT IT DOWN! I really recommend listening to the audiobook for this because I think it is much more of an audio experience than a reading one. Now if you're confused, I got you. Sadie  is a dual perspective story that surrounds the murder of Sadie's sister Mattie, one perspective is Sadie: Mattie's older sister who knows what happened to Mattie and is one the search for her killer. Also, Sadie has a speech impediment, which is part of the reason I recommend the audiobook because they do implement it pretty well. The other perspective is a podcast a la Serial set after Sadie leaves to find Mattie's murderer as West McCray, the host of the podcast, tries to find Sadie and Mattie. I really enjoyed the book overall, it's been a few months since I read it so I can't go into super details, I felt truly immersed in the world and the podcast was unique and actual

   Bob Crane was born on July 13,1928, in Waterbury Connecticut. He began playing drums when he was 11 and joined his high school's marching band and orchestra. In 1948, two years after graduating from high school, he enlisted in the National Guard and was honorably discharged in 1950. That same year, he started his broadcasting career at WLEA in New York. He moved to different radio stations in the northeast until 1956, where CBS radio hired him to host the morning show KNX in Los Angeles. He quickly topped the morning rating and eventually started to move into acting; guest-hosting for Johnny Carson on Who Do You Trust? and making appearances on The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, General Electric Theatre, and even The Dick Van Dyke Show. He was offered a guest shot on The Donna Reed Show in 1963, which turned into a recurring role for a year. In 1968, Crane got his big role starring in Hogan's Heroes, which takes places in a German POW camp although it is

  Okay, so I read this novella because one it was on Unlimited and two it was written by Taylor Jenkins Reid and after how much I loved The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, I try to give her books a chance whenever I come across them. So the basic premise is that a woman finds letters to her husband written by his mistress and she starts up a correspondence with the mistress's husband since he's the only person that can understand what she's going since through. A friendship grows between the two as their marriages are on the potential for destruction. I really enjoyed that this book was written in just letters, the book is set in the 70s, and thank you people that choose fonts (typesetters?) for making each person have a different font. It's lighthearted but still a conversation we need to have, what makes you stay in a relationship. If you're expecting the same writing from Seven Husbands you will be upset, but this is a novella, you don't have the time t

         Virginia Rappe was born on July 7, 1895, in Chicago. Her single mother died when Virginia was 11 and her grandmother started to raise her. Virginia started to work as a commercial and art model and in 1916 she moved to San Francisco to pursue her career. She eventually became engaged to dress designer Robert Moscovitz, but he was killed shortly later in a streetcar accident, causing her to move to Los Angeles. In 1917, she finally got her first movie deal playing a prominent role in Paradise Garden and costarred in Over the Rhine, where she won "Best Dressed Girl in Pictures," although this film wasn't released until 1920, where he released it as An Adventuress and then rereleased it in 1922, after Rappe's death, as The Isle of Love. In 1919, she began a relationship with Henry Lehrman, a director/producer. They became engaged and were living together, although according to the 1920s Census, she listed herself as a "boarder" in Lehrman's

 Time for another review for a book y'all have probably read, but for the people that are on the fence, be prepared to be more on the fence because I'm slightly conflicted about this one. Don't get me wrong, it's good and I'm interested in the sequel, but it felt a bit too generic. It felt like a more violent version of the Selection set in a more patriarchy time. I will say this is my main complaint because I've always been a person that looks heavily at a plot for creativity and originality and this didn't really have it for me, BUT this is a book that kept me reading throughout the night and I don't know the last time I did that (maybe one of the Ember in the Ashes books, but if not then before high school!). I just got completely enraptured in the book and the politics and even though this is the first book, I feel like you get a feel for the politics and the dual perspectives does well for showing that.   Okay, now let's talk about the syno

     George Reeves was born as George Keefer Brewer on January 5, 1914, in Woolstock, Iowa. His parents separated soon after he was born and eventually he and his mother moved to California. His mother married Frank Joseph Bessolo and he adopted Geroge as his son in 1927. The marriage lasted for 15 years and they separated when Reeves was away visiting relatives and when he returned his mother told him Bessolo had committed suicide. Once he got in high school, Reeves started acting and singing in high school and then became a student at Pasadena Junior College, where he continued acting.   We're gonna skip a lot of his acting career, but the TL:dr of his filmography was that his film career started in 1939 as one of the suitors of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (where he was incorrectly listed as Brent Tarleton,) then was in several B-pictures, two with Ronald Reagan and three with James Cagney, co-star in Lydia with Merle Oberon, was in Charlie Chan's Dead M

   Why so green, we're talking about new releases! Also, this month is a bit smaller than most because some of the books I was excited for this month bumped back their release date. A Question of Holmes by Brittany Cavallaro Genre: YA, Mystery, Retellings Release Date: 3/5   Okay, so I still haven't caught up on the series, but I can still be excited about the continuation of a series I enjoy, but essentially the series is a retelling of the Sherlock Holmes story but in this world, Holmes and Watson were real people and this follows their descendants: Charlotte Holmes and Jamie Watson The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton Genre: Psychological Thriller Release Date: 3/26 Juliette loves Nate and she knows that they are meant to be together. She's willing to do whatever it takes to be his perfect girlfriend, she becomes a flight attendant for his airline so she can keep an eye on him. Even though he broke up with her six months ago, she has a plan t