Book Reading.......

[disneydream06]

I just finished up book No. 42 tonight.
I read Shirley Jones A Memoir by Shirley Jones.
She is probably most well known for playing Shirley Partridge on The Partridge Family, but she also was in movies Oklahoma, Carousel, Elmer Gantry, for which she won an Oscar, and many others.
She is quite the lady. And a whole lot of contradictions.
She spends a lot of the book convincing us that she's not the innocent Mrs. Partridge when it comes to her sexual life. She LOVES sex. However, she saved her virginity for her first husband, Jack Cassidy, a married man. Jack was a HUGE womanizer and pretty much flaunted it in her face, never apologizing for it, and she accepted it because he was her husband and she loved him. She eventually even had a three way with him and a back up dancer from a show they were doing because he wanted it.
She finally had to give up on the marriage after Jack had a break down, was diagnosed as being bipolar and refused treatment. One night nearly burning down their house with her and the kids in it.
She eventually fell for another man, comedian Marty Ingalls, who ironically was later diagnosed as being bipolar. :o She openly admits that even though she loves Marty, the true love of her life will always be Jack.
The kids hate/hated Marty and now after nearly 40 years of marriage, from the sounds of it, just tolerate him. :o Very mature boys.
Towards the end of the book she points out that even now in her late 70s, she loves to masturbate. :o
On a side note, in this political season, she grew up in a family of Democrats only to be a Republican herself. So disappointed in Mrs. Partridge. lol... Gotta wonder how she feels about Trump? lol.....


Book List 2016:
1. Schooled in Revenge by Jesse Lasky
2. A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
3. Kicking and Dreaming by Ann & Nancy Wilson with Charles R. Cross
4. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
5. A Kingdom Keepers Adventure: The Syndrome:Finders Keepers Losers Sleepers by Ridley Pearson
6. The Carpet People by Terry Pratchett
7. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
8. Before Tomorrowland by Jeff Jensen/Jonathan Case/Brad Bird/Damon Lindelof
9. Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
10. Dean and Me(A Love Story) by Jerry Lewis and James Kaplan
11. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
12. Detective Strongoak and The Case of the Dead Elf by Terry Newman
13. Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich
14. The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice by M. G. Lord
15. They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie
16. Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
17. The Return: Disney Lands by Ridley Pearson
18. The Return: Legacy of Secrets by Ridley Pearson
19. Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen by Serena Valentino
20. If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't) by Betty White
21. Confirmed Diagnosis by Mary King
22. The Book of Deacon by Joseph R. Lallo
23. Cyndi Lauper A Memoir by Cyndi Lauper with Jancee Dunn
24. A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
25. Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
26. 4:50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie
27. The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
28. Complications by Mary King
29. The Beast Within: A Tale of Beauty's Prince by Serena Valentino
30. The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic by Jason Surrell
31. The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side by Agatha Cristie
32. A General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates by Captain Charles Johnson
33. Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich
34. Gods & Monsters A Novel by Christopher Bram
35. Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich
36. Abigail & John Portrait of a Marriage by Edith B. Gelles
37. 9 to 5 by Thom Racina
38. Life Among the Lutherans by Garrison Keillor
39. Poor Unfortunate Soul: A Tale of the Sea Witch by Serena Valentino
40. A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
41. Blinded By The Sight by S. L. Smith
42. Shirley Jones A Memoir by Shirley Jones

Comments

[kaishin108.livejournal.com]

That is pretty weird to read all of that about Shirley Jones. It feels a bit TMI, ahh hah! I guess it is healthy for people to write books like that though.

I forgot all about Jack Cassidy. He always looked strange and unbalanced to me, now I get it.

Hugz,
Helen

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I think she was definitely going for the shock factor.
She shared that Jack was quite well endowed and, not sure how she knew, but David, his son from another marriage, was even bigger. :o

[kaishin108.livejournal.com]

Whoa!
LOL!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

It also goes to show you which marriage was important to her in that she has been married twice as long to Marty, but he maybe got about a 1/4 of the book. Granted her career is a lot slower at that point.

[kaishin108.livejournal.com]

That is interesting. It sounds like it was true love. It must have been so painful for her to see him so sick and not taking his meds, that is sad :-(

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I have a real problem listening to her accept his womanizing. :o

[kaishin108.livejournal.com]

That is sick. It is surprising what 'true love' will put up with. :-o

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

That's a mentality that I hope is dying out. :o

[kaishin108.livejournal.com]

Yes! I hope it does die out. I think it has to do with low self esteem.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

She doesn't come off as being that way, but maybe she is. :o

[owlstorm_9]

hmmm.....interesting.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

That would be one description. lol.......

[seaivy.livejournal.com]

well, that's one book i don't have to think about reading

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

My review was enough, huh?

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Trump is why she probably included the masturbatory part ... LOL!

I've read that Jack Cassidy was gay or bisexual. Any mention of that in the memoir?

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Yes actually. He apparently told her he had a one off with a theater guy to get a job, but then somebody told her later that he had a relationship with this guy. :o

[changeling72.livejournal.com]

Never heard of her.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

You guys didn't get The Partridge Family over there?
She was the female lead in both Oklahoma and Carousel.

[changeling72.livejournal.com]

Not that I'm aware of. I may have been too young, though.

I have seek Oklahoma, but not Carousel.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Carousel is kind of dark story. I think there is abuse and/or murder involved. You know you typical light musical. :p

I think The Partridge Family originally aired late 60s or early 70s.
I had to look it up. It starte in the 1970 and ran for 4 seasons.

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

heyyyyyyy slow down you!!

now where was the time that you told me you would never be able to reach 50 books by the end of the year???
You still have 2.5 months to go and just need 8 books now!!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

First chapter done in the next book. LOL.........

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

okay... I'm aiming for the 60 now

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Not going to hold my breath for that big of a number. I will be happy with 50. :)

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

naaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh that's not enough

let's say 55

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

EEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

LOL ah come ooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Interested in sex but still wanted to stay a virgin till she got married .. does not sound like a recipe for a happy life to me nd comedienne that he was such a womaniser.
Sounds a fascinating read nonetheless.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I would call Jack Cassidy a comedian.
But definitely a womanizer, and apparently bisexual on top of it all. He told her he had sex with a theater guy to get a job, and then later somebody told her that he actually had a relationship with the guy. :o

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

A typo , should have read "and considering". Sometimes the keys stick on this Chromebook of mine , and sometimes the spell check goes awry.Well , that is my excuse and i am sticking to it.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

LOL..................
Stupid keyboard. :o