2014 Summer Reading Classic Film Book Challenge

After being a student for nearly my whole life, I finally feel like I have had enough time off from all the crazy deadlines and never ending reading lists to pick back up reading for enjoyment.  So this summer I am taking part in Raquel's Summer Reading Classic Film Book Challenge and I am pretty excited to get a few titles checked off my list. 


Here's what I'll be reading:

• Confessions of an Ex-Fan Magazine Writer by Jane Wilkie
• Hollywood Hoopla: Creating Stars and Selling Movies in the Golden Age of Hollywood by Robert S. Sennett
• Conversations with Joan Crawford by Roy Newquist
• The Way We Wore: Styles of the 1930s and '40s and Our World Since Then by Marsha Hunt
• Majestic Hollywood: The Greatest Films of 1939 by Mark A. Vieira
• Hollywood Canteen: Where the Greatest Generation Danced with the Most Beautiful Girls in the World by Lisa Mitchell

A few of my selections are for pure enjoyment and a few are for some projects I am working on -- what can I say, it's really hard to fully leave the world of academia.  Now to pour a glass of lemonade and relax on my patio chaise lounge!