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A review by emilydaisies
The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara
5.0
I should probably preface this with the fact that I am a fan of the podcast reading-glasses which Malory is a cohost on. That is how I knew about this book. Also that I don't normally like nonfiction and rarely give any 5 stars.
That said I was very entertained by this book. If you are looking for a flat biography this is not that. It's a story of Mallory's search to find more about a woman she idolized and a bit about that woman's life. As someone who had no previous knowledge of Hollywood and how things worked in the early 1900s this was an interesting intro into that. It was also interesting to hear about the woman who designed the creature from the black lagoon. But my favorite parts are where she connects the story of Millicent to the larger experience of being a woman in the workforce and how she went about doing the detective work to unearth her info.
That said I was very entertained by this book. If you are looking for a flat biography this is not that. It's a story of Mallory's search to find more about a woman she idolized and a bit about that woman's life. As someone who had no previous knowledge of Hollywood and how things worked in the early 1900s this was an interesting intro into that. It was also interesting to hear about the woman who designed the creature from the black lagoon. But my favorite parts are where she connects the story of Millicent to the larger experience of being a woman in the workforce and how she went about doing the detective work to unearth her info.