Title: The Chaperone Author: Laura Moriarty Publish Date: June 5, 2012 Publisher: Riverhead Books Format: Audiobook Page Count: 13 hours, 10 minutes Source: Library (via OverDrive) Date Read: May 2-6, 2020 Review A dull saga about people living in Wichita. I can't even shelve this as "historical f...
Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone, who ...
I seriously loved this book - the story of a regular 1920s Kansas housewife who chaperones a teenaged Louise Brooks to New York, but for reasons of her own. Cora felt like a real woman and I always wanted to know more of her life and of how her experiences change her as the world around her changes,...
This book was narrated by Elizabeth McGovern so it helped my Downton Abbey withdrawal. The story is a fictionalized account of Louise Brooks, a real life movie star in the 1920's, when she was chaperoned from Wichita, Kansas to New York at age 15 by one of her mother's acquaintances. Cora Carlisle ...
I found this story of Cora, and her chaperoning of a young Louise Brooks (a future silent film star) to New York in 1922 impossible to put down. The author did an impressive job of capturing the lives of women in a time of great social upheaval in a very realistic way. So often in historical fiction...
It is 1922, Cora Carlisle, happily married in Wichita, but facing an empty nest, decides to be a chaperone for 15 year old Louise Brooks on her trip to New York City, where she will study with a renowned dance teacher for the summer. Cora’s husband, Alan, prefers that she doesn’t go; but he gives hi...
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,...
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