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A beautiful Marilyn biography

August 2, 2017 by Beth Ellen 3 Comments

Full disclosure I received this from fellow Cannonballer Xoxoxoe as she frickin’ wrote/drew this. How cool is that?! All thoughts and opinions though are my own, but I’ll start with this one is definitely staying on my bookshelf. There’s not much to plot here, it’s a biography of Marilyn Monroe. We start with Norma Jean and work our way through to the end of her too short life. I really enjoy history, and especially Hollywood history (the podcast You Must Remember This is amazing y’all […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novel/Comic Tagged With: Beth Ellen, Elizabeth Periale, Unfinished, Unfinished: A Graphic Novel of Marilyn Monroe

Not Just Another Pretty Face.

August 2, 2017 by No Pithy Name 2 Comments

Full disclosure:I was given a free copy of this book to read and review. There was no implication that the review must be favorable. Could there be a better way to present Marilyn Monroe, a woman who loved to be photographed, than in a graphic novel packed with beautiful images of this beautiful woman? Using a visually arresting collage style, Elizabeth Periale brings a fresh eye and voice to the oft-told tragic story of America’s Bombshell. Having only a passing familiarity with Monroe’s life, the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novel/Comic Tagged With: biography, Elizabeth Periale, Marilyn Monroe, Unfinished, xoxoxo e

Unfinished by Elizabeth Periale

Poor Marilyn

July 26, 2017 by Gracey the Giant 2 Comments

I won the book, Unfinished…, from fellow Cannonballer Elizabeth Periale (also known as xoxoxoe) and I was excited to read it because Marilyn’s fame has always been interesting to me.  I’ve never obsessed over her like some, but it’s interesting to me how many people do, still, to this day, obsess over Marilyn Monroe.  Or, at least the image of Marilyn Monroe. Periale uses many of those images, along with quotes, by and about Marilyn, in this graphic novel. And she does so to great […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novel/Comic Tagged With: Drug Abuse, Elizabeth Periale, Hollywood, Hollywood eats it's young, Marilyn Monroe, Unfinished, Unfinished: A Graphic Novel of Marilyn Monroe

So much more than that girl standing on the subway grate

July 13, 2017 by katie71483 3 Comments

I was offered an advance copy of UNFINISHED: A Graphic Novel of Marilyn Monroe by Elizabeth Periale in exchange for a timely and fair review. Y’ALL. THIS THING IS FUCKING GORGEOUS. Why did we as adults give up one of the best parts of books? The illustration for goodness sake. I mean, how could it not be considering that its subject matter is one of the iconic beauties of the 20th Century? It’s more than that though. You can tell that a great deal of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novel/Comic Tagged With: Elizabeth Periale, katie71483, Marilyn Monroe, Unfinished

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