My Life So Far

Jane Fonda

I really enjoyed this. She's had such an interesting life, yet she also has adapted herself to the men in her life for most of her life. If someone so famous, (as an ardent feminist, no less )and rich could still feel she needed to define herself by the man in her life, what does that say about society? Was Fonda just a product of her time, or is there something more to the story?

It's not a typical "hollywood" bio -- I would have found the story interesting without all the hollywood stuff. In fact, there really isn't much dishing of the stars. She talks a lot about her relationship to her father, but it's certainly the story of many Americans of their eras who aren't famous. Of any era, really.

Brava, Jane!

I, Elizabeth

by Rosalind Mills

I've gotten behind in my journalling, and I read this a few weeks ago so my memories may not be the best. While I enjoyed it, and enjoy this type of literature for the most part, I didn't like it as much as the Phillipa Gregory books or the Jean Plaidy ones.