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Book: 'The Scandalous Life of Evelyn Hugo'

Author Taylor Jenkins Reed

Genre: Novel, contemporary fiction

Rating (1 to 6): 5

I've mentioned several times in posts that I participate in a literary club. I haven't told you more about it, though. It's organized by a Canadian blogger I like and our meetings take place online. It's not a big club, but people from all over the world participate and it's interesting to read contemporary titles that are gaining popularity, translated into different languages.

So far with them, I've read Midnight Library - an interesting title that explores the possibilities of time travel and I'll definitely be writing more about it here - and A Little Guide to the Hyuga, which is a scarily enjoyable read, but is better suited to previews and aesthetic shots on social media.

I'm making this long introduction to introduce the title we're reading in March, The Scandalous Life of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reed (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo) from Intance Publishing. В @books we have already written about it once, but as you may know, since we have quite different reading tastes, we often find it interesting to present a title from more than one point of view. And thanks to Booksy and the reviews each does, we also inspire each other for new reads.

"The Scandalous Life of Evelyn Hugo" is a much commented book in the world book market in general. Here's why. It introduces an adult actress who talks about the things that happened to her from the 1950s to the 1980s in Hollywood. A one-time sex bomb who has consistently ended up on the front page of the tabloids, but also among the nominees for all the acting awards. That's the basis, the foundation of the plot.

In addition to a detailed look at the behind-the-scenes of Hollywood's embryonic society, Taylor Jenkins Reed manages to keep the reader in suspense until the very last page. You've just been told that the story is already clear to you and it plunges you into new dimensions to the profound.

It raises issues of women's rights, violence, racial discrimination, homosexuality, but turns them on their head and presents you with elements of the human psyche that play a key role in them, which are harder to find on Google.It describes tense life situations and gives you a realistic view, as if they were told by a person who has been in such situations, experienced such moments and felt such feelings and emotions. And the constant attempt to guess who was the inspiration for the book - Google says it's Elizabeth Taylor, I imagine Marilyn Monroe while reading - is a nice bonus.

The times we live in are good, the social freedom of the individual is immense compared to even 30 years ago, and millennials often ask (joking aside, naturally many people do): how could this have happened, how could it have been "normal". Taylor Jenkins Reid shows us how. She tells us the stories so that we can experience them along with the characters. He manages not to take the human factor out of the social issues.

Well, this text is starting to turn into something other than a book review, so I'll end here. "The Scandalous Life of Evelyn Hugo is intriguing, cleverly written, funny and important, read it.