Monday, February 03, 2014

Carol Berkin's "Wondrous Beauty," the movie

Featured at My Book, The Movie: Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte by Carol Berkin.

The entry begins:
Ah…who has not fantasized about casting the movie version of a book? I have spent many an hour with close friends, sipping Malbec and arguing good-naturedly over who should be cast if some smart producer decides to put Wondrous Beauty on the wide screen. Who should play Betsy Bonaparte, her lily-livered husband Jerome Bonaparte, her oppressive father, her many hapless and scorned suitors, her son and grandsons—and, of course, Napoleon?

For the young Betsy—Jennifer Lawrence? No, somehow not right. Keira Knightley? A good choice, and she should be...[read on]
Read more about Wondrous Beauty at the publisher's website.

My Book, The Movie: Wondrous Beauty.

--Marshal Zeringue