morethanmylupus 's review for:

The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki

2.0

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If Marjorie Post had an interesting life, I will never know it just by reading this book. She's rich so we get a lot of talk about her projects, but by the end of the book I didn't feel like I got to know where at all. We don't need to hear about every redecoration she undertook, truly. We skip the Great Depression (except for a very brief reference to her soup kitchen) which felt offensive given her wealth. This book makes her sound flighty like she rushed into marriages and then divorced with equally little consideration. Was that intentional? I have no idea, because, again, I don't feel like I got to know her personality at all here.