Full review published here: http://www.brazenbookworm.com/2012/09/audiobook-review-chaperone-by-laura.html(AUDIO) Loved this historical fiction-ish story imagining the life of the woman who accompanied silent film star Louise Brooks on her pre-stardom journey from Kansas to NYC...
This is a decent summer read--it draws you in and moves quickly (at first), but the last third of the book completely falls apart. Cora becomes too perfect and good, nothing bad really happens to her, and since everything's on tell-don't-show fast-forward mode, you're not emotionally invested in the...
In 1922, Cora Carlisle accompanies young Louise Brooks to a dancing audition in New York City. She is her chaperone. But Cora has other things on her mind while in the city, and has she searches for her past, we find that she has not such a wonderful present. But will she be daring to embrace he...
Oh, brother. I liked the story at first, and the writing seemed ok. The main character seemed a bit contradictory and not very consistent (or maybe just not very well-developed), but I kept going. I wanted to learn more about her and the flashbacks to her earlier life was interesting enough.However,...
I first had the pleasure of reading Laura Moriarty's debut novel The Center of Everything many years ago and meeting her shortly after. What a pleasure both her novel and her friendly and open personality were. The Center of Everything was by no means perfect, but it was a very strong debut. And her...
This fascinating dip into a fictional female American life, encompassing social history from the 1920’s to 1940’s is told in three parts. Part One is the train journey from Wichita to New York, Part Two the time spent in New York and Part Three Cora at home in Wichita again.It begins with the read...
When she was chosen to spend the summer of 1922 studying with the Denishawn Dance Company in New York City, fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks--several years away from becoming a silent-film superstar--intended to make it one-way trip out of Wichita, Kansas. But a fifteen-year-old girl doesn’t make a tr...
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