More holiday reading and a glamorous stash

A quick one today, after the long blog I wrote yesterday. 

I am looking forward to the holiday so I can go out and walk in the countryside - I do hope the weather will be clement enough for it! 
But I know there will be some days when I will just spend many hours on the sofa with my books... 
I am absolutely thrilled to have at last acquired Louise Brooks' Lulu In Hollywood, a collection of essays the fascinating 20s actress and icon has written for various film publications over the years - including Sight and Sound and Film Culture. I have already started on the first chapter, a previously unpublished account of her childhood and her move from Kansas to New York to start her entertainment career. And what an absolutely fabulous read this is! Louise Brooks is an accomplished writer: witty, clever, funny, wildly honest and unsentimental, she writes a riveting, often hilarious account of her younger years. I cannot wait to pick it up again. 
This edition is the Arena Edition, 1987. 

The BFI have had a Gothic film season and I haven't been able to attend any of the events... So I will console myself with the superb Gothic: The Dark Heart of Film, a great book exploring all the aspects of the Gothic genre in films and its inspirations. There are fab pictures and essays written by, among others, (usual suspects) Matthew Sweet, Kim Newman, Mark Kermode, Roger Luckhurst, Mark Gatiss and Guillermo del Toro- apologies to the other ones, these are the names I know!  
And whilst flicking through the book, I realised that I've seen quite a lot of them, but I still have a very long list of movies to watch... 

Finally today, and still cinema related, a wonderful stash of 1920s actresses. I collect cards with pictures of actresses, but you are only able to find mainly Edwardian ones. I hadn't found any 1920s ones until the Alexandra Palace Antiques fair last September, where I managed to get my hands on a few. 
My fabulous partner got his hands on over 100 of them at a market in London!
 
Now that's what I call glamour... 


Now if you'll excuse me, I have a first draft to finish off before the end of the year...