Kris Jenner and All Things Kardashian

  I got this biography a while back on sale at bookoutlet.com. I love biographies no matter who they are so I added this one to my collection.
  This biography is what you would expect from Kris Jenner - fluffy and bubbly and fast paced. You don't read this expecting to change your life or receive life changing advice; you read it because they're an interesting family.
  This novel was written pre-Caitlyn Jenner so in here Kris is still raving about the wonderful man she married. It's also pre Kim and Kanye.
  Kris moves quickly from topic to topic, because if she went in depth on all the exciting events of her life she would have a 1000 page novel. There are affairs, divorce, several moves, entrepreneurial adventures, heartache and happiness. She breezes through the events in her life with a bubbly effervescence. There's no dirty gossip, no backstabbing, no throwing anybody under the bus. It sounds like she lives her life being accountable for the mistakes she made and being open minded about her loved ones.
 Surprise takeaways are that I didn't realize Kris was a spiritual woman. I've never seen Keeping Up With the
the Kardashiens, so I don't know if she's discussed her faith on the show, but it sounds as if it's always played an important role in her life and her decisions (well, except for that dalliance during her marriage, but in the larger scope of things she's a very Christian woman.)
 The book also deals with her friendship with Nicole Brown Simpson and her earlier friendship with OJ and how the family dealt with that tragedy. Kris took it hard because she had been close friends with Nicole, but at the same time it must've was devastating when someone you had been friends with for so long like OJ is charged with your best friend's murder and you also lose trust in him during the process.
  All in all, it's a fun read. Kris brings her exciting and nonstop life to us like a 302 page US magazine article - Great section of family photos and fizzy fun dialogue.

Seventeenth Summer by maureen Daly

 My Autumn of Retro Books continues with this little gem written in 1952 and on it's eighth printing by 1974. Again, like with Love is Never Enough, there is such an authenticity of the era to books actually written as modern day romances of that time. Angie falls in love with a boy who delivers bakery goods in his truck, they sweat it out all summer in a house with no air conditioning, they eat hot dogs on 'rolls' with 'tomato sauce' at the county fair.....There are scenes and settings in these classic romances that can take you back to that time like no other.
  Seventeenth Summer is all about 17 year old Angie and her summer before college, as she meets Jack and falls in love.
 Books written before the 70's tend to be pretty long winded. Beautifully written with detailed scenes and descriptions of everyday life but they are light on action. This book is 285 pages of small print and nothing more exciting happens than watching Jack court Angie, but because of the incredible descriptions it feels more real than modern romance novels.
 If you find this on Ebay - buy it. ( By the way, the price for it in 1974? 75 cents.)

Love is Never Enough by Bianca Bradbury

There is nothing I love more than a good paperback from the 70s, that delicious tea yellow color of the pages and he retro covers...
  Love is Never Enough was published in 1971 by good old Scholastic Books. When I got it (from somewhere, I don't know where!) I didn't realize it was a YA novel for those times but it is.
  Love Is Never Enough features a very young couple (she's 17, he's still in college) who unexpectedly have a baby and have to get married. The book is through the eyes of the young mother who feels isolated in their small trailer, doesn't feel like she fits in with her husband's college friends, and feels the general malaise of being a housewife without a purpose.
 The book has a wonderful retro tone and definitely speaks from the early 70s, but the theme could just as well be suited today's young mother's who are not ready to give up their lives to focus entirely on a baby and marriage.
 I don't believe you would find this book anywhere but on Ebay - maybe - but this post is mainly about snatching up these retro novels when you find them. Books today can replicate the 70s tone, but you feel the authenticity in a romance actually written during that time.