by Wendy Lawless
Chanel Bonfire was an amazing read. I’ve always been infatuated with reading true stories about people growing up with a narcissistic parent(s) so I knew I needed to read this memoir. I devoured this book in a matter of hours—I couldn’t put it down. I loved how in their own right both Wendy and Robi...
I can easily see "Chanel Bonfire" being made into a book. It's honest, emotional, dark, with a few moments of humour sprinkles here and there. And it's beautiful.Wendy Lawless captures her own disjointed and emotional childhood by focusing on her mother's impact on herself and her sister Robin. It's...
Great read! Honest and painful memoir, with a few laughs sprinkled in for good measure. Wendy Lawless and her sister, Robin, grew up with an unstable Grace Kelly-ish mother who drank and drank and then, unfortunately for all involved, drank some more. Their beautiful and conniving mother also collec...
In a sentence, this book is shallow and vapid and the prose is insipid and full of glib cliches (at one point, she compares working as a stage hand changing sets to clocking in on a slave ship and rowing for twelve hours. Really?). If you're a fan of Gossip Girl (books or show), then this is the adu...
Although a biography, this amazing story has the readability of a novel. It flows well and the story told is totally captivating. Told from Wendy's (Georganne's daughter) point of view, one can only gasp at the horrors being told, and told from a seemingly detached point of view that some would faul...
If you're 19 years old and the only worldly wisdom your mother has to offer you is "Never screw a spider," it's time to look elsewhere for guidance. Wendy Lawless was smart enough to do just that, and she created a life of sanity for herself after a childhood of pure insanity. This is not a pleasant...
6/12/12
6/12/12
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