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The Hollywood Book Club
The Hollywood Book Club | Steven Rea
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Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Gregory Peck, Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroethe brightest stars of the silver screen couldn't resist curling up with a good book. This unique collection of rare photographs celebrates the joy of reading in classic film style. The Hollywood Book Club captures screen luminaries on set, in films, in playful promotional photos, or in their own homes and libraries with books from literary classics to thrillers, from biographies to children's books, reading with their kids, and more. Featuring nearly 60 enchanting images, lively captions about the stars and what they're reading by Hollywood photo archivist Steven Rea, and a glamorous stamped case design, here's a real page-turner for booklovers and cinephiles.
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TieDyeDude
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A delightful coffee table book containing photos of silver screen legends looking at books. The captions make some effort to discern the true readers from obvious publicity staging. They actually put some effort into trying to determine the book as well, when the cover is obscured.

TheBookHippie I love this book. 2w
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UwannaPublishme
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Here‘s a crazy fun read for bibliophiles who love movies. Plenty of photos and trivia on literature covered in the film industry and which books Hollywood icons love to read. Can you name the films where these fictional bookstores appeared? 1. Acme Book Shop 2. Argosy Book Store 3. Embryo Concepts 4. Flourish and Blotts 5. The Shop Around the Corner (Answers below👇🏻)
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UwannaPublishme 1. The Big Sleep 2. Vertigo 3. Funny Face 4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer‘s Stone 5. You‘ve Got Mail 4y
mrp27 The Los Angeles public library has a Gregory Peck reading room. He used to hold readings once a week. As if he wasn't swoon worthy enough! 4y
TheAromaofBooks Fun!!! 4y
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UwannaPublishme @mrp27 How cool! Can you imagine listening to him read? Yes, I‘m swooning. ☺️ 4y
PurpleyPumpkin Sounds like a fun book!📚 4y
mrp27 @UwannaPublishme Right?! LA public library is an awesome place to explore and it's fitting to have some celebrity influence. 4y
rubyslippersreads This book sounds right up my alley. 😊 4y
UwannaPublishme @rubyslippersreads It is! They even have a photo of Judy and the Wizard of Oz cast. 👠🙌🏻 4y
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JoyBlue
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4⭐ for photos; 2⭐ for text & editing. Even though I watched a lot of old movies when I was little, I still had trouble identifying a few of the stars. In all fairness, they were all *at least* a generation before me (more were two or more generations before me). Anyway, the photos were pretty darn gorgeous, but the writing and editing were mediocre/poor.

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TheBookHippie
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When two book friends send you a book you absolutely were drooling to get and THEN you open them early and your friend who is struggling as a younger widow comes by for tea and coffee and sees the two books and cries because she can‘t believe I got this book she wanted for us to look at together 😳❤️🎄 I of course gave her the story of how these books came my way. Sometimes you send things out in the wilderness that turns out so beautiful 😭❤️

Butterfinger I love this post. 4y
Soubhiville Aw, that‘s sweet ❤️ 4y
GingerAntics This is the best post!!! 4y
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TheBookHippie @Shadowfat This is the gift I got I thought it was from @TheWordJar I‘m so sorry if I‘ve messed this up. 4y
Shadowfat That's ok @TheBookHippie I'm just glad you got the package and liked it, even if you got the same book! That's a sweet story 🙂 4y
TheBookHippie @Shadowfat oh goodness!!! I love it so much! It has brought so much joy! More than you could ever imagine!!! ❤️❤️❤️thank you so much!! 4y
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Soubhiville
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I received this book in LibraryThing‘s Early Reviewers program.

It‘s a beautiful book, with photos of famous folks (mostly actors, some directors) from the 30‘s through the 60‘s. Each photo has a descriptive paragraph on the opposite page.

Unfortunately it‘s geared towards either older than me folks who will recognize those pictured, or real B&W movie buffs. While lovely, it‘s lost on me.

Eggs Beautiful 4y
rubyslippersreads 😍⭐️😍 4y
TheBookHippie This is on my Christmas list!! 4y
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Amie
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Two of my favorite things: books and old Hollywood. Contains photos of stars reading books, mostly publicity shots or stills from films, with bits of info about the stars and/or films. This would make a nice gift for bookworms who also like classic films.

I won this in a giveaway on LibraryThing. Published by Chronicle Books.

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