Thursday, March 26, 2015

Missing Reels

Missing Reels by Farran Smith Nehme, 341 pages

Ceinwen Reilly works in a vintage clothing store and is obsessed with old movies, almost exclusively watching films produced in the 1950s or earlier, and dressing the part in '40s-era clothes. Perhaps because she has such a starry-eyed, romantic view of the world, Ceinwen suspects her downstairs neighbor Miriam is a silent film starlet, after all, she is a beautiful elderly woman with style to rival Grace Kelly. In a plot reminiscent of Old Hollywood, Ceinwen drags her mathematician boyfriend Matthew along on a wild search for a silent film that is believed to be lost... and which just may feature Miriam.

I loved this book. It's a great tribute to old movies, as well as a bit of a love letter to New York City. It makes me want to do a Katharine Hepburn movie marathon.

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