Love, Sometimes, Barbara Rose Brooker
Love, Sometimes, Barbara Rose Brooker
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Love, Sometimes
A Novel About Risk, Hollywood, and Controversial Love

Author: Barbara Rose Brooker

Narrator: Donna Postel

Unabridged: 8 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/20/2020

Categories: Fiction, Legal, Women


Synopsis

A passionate, sixty-eight-year-old author single-handedly fights ageism in the Hollywood networks and risks her TV series, fame, and fortune—finding controversial true love along the way.

After publishing many books, and after many failed TV opportunities, Bette Roseman finally signs a network contract for a TV series based on her novel, The Viagra Diaries, and dreams of a hit show. But when WC Network changes her protagonist's age from sixty to twenty-something, Bette angrily confronts Network CEO Joshua Bitterman. She demands that her protagonist maintain her original age, but he insists the public "wants young." After betrayal, intrigue, and bartering with the multi-million-dollar network, the impassioned Bette finds herself in the middle of a high-stakes Hollywood legal court battle. Wanting to make a deeper connection with her feelings, writing, and her two adult daughters, she begins to explore her past and her subconscious for her truths.

About Barbara Rose Brooker

Barbara Rose Brooker, age activist, teacher, painter, and poet, has published eleven books of fiction and won a National Library Award for her poetry. She has appeared frequently on The Today Show, The Talk, ET, Andy Cohen, and Watch What Happens Live. Also a columnist, she has published "Boomer in the City" for the JWeekly and the Huffington Post. Currently she teaches writing at San Francisco State/OLLI and other venues. She is the founder of agemarch.org, the first march in history to celebrate age pride. She believes that anyone at any age can write and publish a book. She lives in San Francisco, has two daughters, and loves dogs. She is at work on a book of short stories about aging with glamour and never giving up on one's dreams.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Katherine on February 10, 2020

I just finished this book and loved it.... It was funny, sad, and real... The depiction of the Hollywood types was hilarious but the author also expresses feelings such as regrets and frustrations about ageism that many women can identify with.. The story is told with a deep thread of psychological......more