A review by brinnet
Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman by Karen Karbo

3.0

A good overall view of Chanel's life with "life lessons" (some tongue in cheek, some not) thrown in throughout. This book would have been stronger if either the story of Chanel or the lessons took center stage, but instead it wandered back and forth between the two, never making the focus of the book clear. With that said, Karen Karbo has a sometimes-irreverent tone that keeps the book a fun read. I'm taking her list of books in the "Acknowledgements" section and adding most of them to my "to read" list. I'm not sure I'd recommend this book to a friend, but I didn't consider it a waste of my time reading it, either.