I’ve been listening to a podcast series about the Mamas and the Papas, and remembered that this book by Cass’ daughter was in the works. One quick download from the library and I started reading.
It’s a wistful book–losing your only parent at seven doesn’t lead to many first-person anecdotes. More interesting is Elliot-Kugell’s life growing up with the loss.
I’m going to have to go back and listen to the few tracks I have of her to see what her singing voice is like compared to her mom’s. The most interesting thing I learned is that she thought of the idea for a singing group and what became Wilson Phillips until they cut her out of the group!
This is another one that I’ve had in the queue for a while on the ereader. I backed a Kickstarter for it on the basis of hearing about it through Chuck Gannon, and there are some great names contributing here. I didn’t read every story (honestly, maybe about half), but Fonda Lee’s “Welcome to the Legion of Six” was delightful. The book must have done well as it has become a series with number 5 coming out this March.
I recently finished this book after having it in my ereader for YEARS. I bought it originally because it had Wil Wheaton’s first fiction sale in it. (It’s a decent story.) It’s a great idea for a collection; shorts (there’s even a poem) that detail events from the first movie from alternate POVs. There are sequels covering the next two movies of the original trilogy as well, and proceeds were donated to a book charity, at least when originally published. I will probably look for the next two, but who knows how long it will take to read them! 😉