{"id":7208,"date":"2021-04-21T19:05:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T23:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calverosdepot.com\/blog\/?p=7208"},"modified":"2021-04-21T19:05:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T23:05:53","slug":"day-28-favorite-fiction-book-30-day-charlie-chaplin-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calverosdepot.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/21\/day-28-favorite-fiction-book-30-day-charlie-chaplin-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 28 – Favorite fiction book – 30 Day Charlie Chaplin Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have not read many (well, there’s some “non-fiction” books…but I digress), but one that I have had fun reading is “Shadow and Substance: My Time with Charlie Chaplin (A Novel)” by Gerry Mandel. I have read it 3 or 4 times. Summary is that it takes place in the late 1990s and it’s about a guy named Cooper whose a huge Chaplin fan, who been hired to work on a documentary on Chaplin. And who appears from the mists of time to help him with this quest but Chaplin himself. Is Charlie a ghost? Time traveler? I’ll let you decide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That does sound like a hokey description. But a fitting one that doesn’t give away too much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it a literary masterpiece? I wouldn’t say that. Is it a lot of fun to read? Yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if the title sounds familiar, it’s taken from one of many film projects that Chaplin had started on<\/a> but never completed. And when he met his last wife Oona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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