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Me: Stories of My Life - Katharine Hepburn

 
Description: ISBN 0140172718 / Author: Katharine Hepburn / Genre: Biography / Katharine Hepburn reflects on her childhood and youthful misadventures. She tells us about the ups and downs of her career, her early experience in the theatre and her rise to stardom. She describes her warm and ... more
Me: Stories of My Life - Katharine Hepburn ... sometimes stormy relationships with David Lean, George Cukor, Howard Hughes, Leland Hayward, Cary Grant and Louis B. Mayer among others. And in a book that is pervaded with love - love of parents, love of family, being loved and loving - she tells us about the love of her life: Spencer Tracy.

Newest Review: ... One could even say that there are times when you're reading this book that you might feel as if the amazing Kate was talking ... more

 ... to you directly – at least I did. In fact, throughout most of the books I could hear her voice, see her smile and twinkle in her eyes. Mind you, sometimes this type of style can be a touch confusing, especially when she was trying to recount conversations. But with just a tiny bit of perseverance you'll get over that quite easily. If I had to sum her writing style in general, I'd say that it's human, realistic and highly conversational. Certainly there's nothing stand-offish or overly-intellectual in her w...more

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Crowned Review Me: Stories of My Life - Katharine Hepburn: Kissed by Kate! (829 words)
by TheChocolateLady - written on 29/06/06 (Very useful, 122 readings)
Rating:

I don't often read non-fiction and I almost never read biographies because who can tell how much of it is true and how much is rumor or gossip. As for autobiographies, well, most non-writers who actually have interesting lives usually end up taking some ghost writer to help them tell their stories to the world, and they usually produce stilted and/or bombastic volumes. If they don't take a ghost writer, their work ends up sounding amateurish at best, or boring at worst. Not so with "Me: Stories of My Life" by Katharine Hepburn. Katharine Hepburn was my all-time favourite actress in the world – if not my all-time favourite personality in general. ...

 

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