Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara

5 reviews

danimacuk's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Cursing, Suicide, and Terminal illness

Minor: Cancer, Death, Infertility, Grief, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

rtaire's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, and Suicide

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Body shaming, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

mshiiken's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

This book was magnificent! As someone who grew up a female horror fan, I identified strongly with O'Meara's characterizations of what it's like to be so. Milicent Patrick's story is inspiring and I highly recommend this to anyone who's interested in film history at all!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism and Misogyny

Minor: Mental illness, Sexism, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

This is a description of a woman's life who lived and worked in the early 20th century, so there are a lot of gross, misogynistic quotes and behaviors described in the book to illustrate what she had to deal with.

laurenleigh's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

This was soooo amazing, and right up my alley! It’s inspiring me to read more biography and more nonfiction. I also adored Susan Orlean’s The Library Book, so I think I just love nonfiction set in 20th century LA. The focus of this book is on the artist who created and designed the monster in Creature from the Black Lagoon. For decades, her work has gone uncredited, for a whole host of reasons that O’Meara explores. This alone was a fascinating tale of Old Hollywood, but this book is so much more than that. Milicent Patrick’s life is such an amazing story! Her history touches on the creation of Hearst Castle and Julia Morgan’s architecture, the early animation days of Disney, and of course, the legendary monster movies from Universal. If you love California history, this is a must read! I really enjoyed how O’Meara tells Milicent’s story alongside how she discovered these facts. As a lover of research, this was so fun. O’Meara also uses her own life as material, especially where it mirrors Milicent Patrick’s. At the heart of this is an important discussion of Hollywood’s sexist roots, and how this disease is still infecting the entertainment industry today. This book comes at the perfect time in the Me Too movement. I can’t wait to read her next book on the background of women making and participating in the alcohol industry!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

Moderate: Suicide and Medical content

Minor: Body shaming, Infertility, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

lezzieborden's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Misogyny and Sexism

Minor: Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship