Big Batch of Bios

My library recently purchased more Who Was/Is Bios on audio!  So I was very excited, having learned a lot from the batch I had listened to on CD.  This time around I read to the ones about Bruce Springsteen, Dolly Parton, Stevie Wonder, Gandhi, Selena, Michael Jackson, the Rolling Stones , Bob Marley and Queen Victoria.
Random, I know.
These were very enjoyable.  I didn't know anything about the Rolling Stones or Queen Victoria, and I learned so much.  And even people I thought I knew, like Dolly Parton, were full of surprises.  As always I am impressed by the ways in which topics like the accusations against Michael Jackson, Dolly's support of gay marriage, Bruce Springsteen's first marriage, drug use among some members of the Rolling Stones, are addressed.

Don't Know Much 'bout Current Pop Culture

but I do know that Joan Crawford and Bette Davis didn't like each other at all and that sisters, Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland didn't feel much family love and that Judy made Lena mad because Judy was kinda last minute and Lena liked to be prepared.

But I didn't really know much about Kathy Griffin until my mom started saying how much she loved her.  Mom is a big Anderson Cooper fan, as am I, and Griffin and Cooper's mom, Gloria Vanderbilt are best friends, or at the kids say today, "besties."  Well, maybe not best friends, but super good friends.  And I also think that I knew that Griffin and one of my all-time heroes, Joan Rivers were close.
So I bought my mom Griffin's new book, Kathy Griffin's Celebrity Run-Ins:  My A-Z Index and she is loving it.
I then saw Official Book Club Selection:  a Memoir According to Kathy Griffin on one of the downloadable sites from the library and listened to it and loved it.  Then I bought A-Z on audible and blew through that, too!
Very funny lady.  Very hard-working.  I know that some people find her mean, but they said that about Joanie, too.

Jumping the Shark

Jump the Shark:  When Good Things Go Bad was a little dated, but I still enjoyed it.  Its by the guy, Jon Hein, who came up with the concept of tv shows and another people and groups "jumping the shark."  Jump the Shark itself jumped the shark when TV Guide bought it. Bone the Fish is a website that took up where Jump the Shark left off, but I think it is over as well.  Too bad.  Great idea it was and great fun!  The book though, was just a quick listen to pass the time until my audible credit gets here.