Sganow, Herman

Since my last post, I read an issue of The New Scientist, a biography of Victor Fleming, the director of such films as Gone with the Wind, and Mistress of the Vatican by Eleanor Herman.

I devoured the Herman in about three hours. I had never heard of the powerful sister-in-law of a pope, Olimpia Maidalchini. The book was a quick, easy read. I was a big disappointed in the Fleming biography by Sganow, it became too much like a list of movies made and what the author thought of them. I was shocked to learn that many early classics are now lost.

I plan to read more to day than I did yesterday.