A review by devoneylooser
Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love and Die at the Movies by Tara Ison

5.0

Tara Ison’s memoir is funny, moving, and beautiful. If you grew up loving movies—if you grew up *on* movies—this book will bring you back to those days. It will make you think about what it means to allow scenes on the big screen to become so much a part of you that they shape your life. Ison knows movies, and she tells aching stories of coming of age through watching iconic characters and actors. There are a few movies I’m just dying to see again after reading this book (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Little Darlings). There are also some I’ll never see again in the same way (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), because I’ll have Ison’s moving stories in my head as I re-watch them. This book is an absolute gift to anyone who loves film and great storytelling.