Joyce Carol Oates - Blonde: Una Novela Sobre Marilyn Monroe

Pros: A fascinating, disturbing look into Marilyn's world.
Cons: Flow-of-consciousness style of writing can be very difficult to follow.

When I was in graduate school, working on my MSW, I was assigned to work with a client who had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. One day, she tried to tell me what her world was like.

“I feel as if every day I wake up in a...

Pros: very interesting book. I enjoyed it.
Cons: Very long and can be confusing at times

Blonde, by Joyce Carol Oates is a fictional look at Marilyn Monroe’s life. It is not a biography, it is a fiction novel based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. The book begins with Norma Jean Mortenson’s childhood, her life with her mentally unstable...

Pros: Oates' best book
Cons: None

Norma Jean Baker was not Marilyn Monroe--she just played her in the movies. But the fact that she could never make anyone else understand that, least of all her husbands and lovers, aided in pushing a woman of already fragile mental health further to...