Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere.

Monique is not exactly on top of the world. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. What more can I say-it’s so good and worth your time.Īging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. This another story where it doesn’t go where you might expect. Very exciting! Although, I actually think it lends itself better for a series but I’m sure the film will still be fantastic.Īs someone who used to be really into Old Hollywood, I just loved reading this story and Evelyn Hugo is vivid-she felt real. The Hollywood Reporter just announced that Netflix will adapt the novel into a feature film. As I mention, it’s very epic in scale-covers many decades-and set in Old Hollywood.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo shows Taylor’s maturity as an author. Here’s my full review and book club questions. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice. The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. What happens next will become the stuff of legend. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.ĭaisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.Īlso getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. Here’s the synopsis:ĭaisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. Highly recommend this one as it’s such a standout book and one that will stick with you for a long time. I was a bit unsure of the writing style going in-it’s told in an interview format-but it ends up working so well.ĭaisy and Billy’s relationship is not what you expect and I loved how she handled it. It was a toss up for me between Daisy Jones and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

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