When you nostalgia watch a 90s movie loosely based on one of your favorite 80s books, and then get hit with insomnia you clearly have to reread the original book. Or relisten, if the audio is all that‘s available on Libby in the middle of the night. It holds up surprisingly well for a light teen read written in 1972.
I‘ve watched this movie before but never ready the book. I think that this book is perfect for young adults to try and understand where their parents are coming from when they make decisions. On the other side this story helps parents understand what their children may be going through during their teen years.
pickThis book is a classic that explores the funny and insightful consequences of a mother and daughter swapping bodies. The story is witty, filled with relatable moments, and carries a heartwarming message about understanding each other's perspectives.
pickI cannot believe I never read this as a kid because I loved the Jodie Foster movie so much! Well, I have remedied that situation. 😂
#bookspinbingo
#TemptingTitles #WithAWeekday I must have read this version with the pink cover at least a dozen times when I was little. Even though I should‘ve been too old to care about the Jamie Lee Curtis adaptation when it came out, I totally saw it, and I was MAD that it had basically nothing to do with the plot of the book! @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs
#Haunted
15. #FreakyFriday
I saw only the one with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee-Curtis when I was a teen and loved it ❤
I am having such a frustrating day! Hubby left early for work so I got a nice long shower, but everything has gone to pot since then. Smoke detector signaled its end of life 45 minutes before kiddo had to be up, outside her door. School did not go well thanks to that wake-up. Then I find our next four weeks of history curriculum make no sense and I have to rearrange/prune all of it. Hubby suggested takeout for dinner. 👍 I wanna hide and read!😩
Long before Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis brought their body-swapped mother/daughter characters to life in the 2003 movie Freaky Friday, there was a book that inspired it! On Episode 111 of my podcast, author Suzanne Park joins me to discuss the source material, a 1972 middle grade novel by Mary Rodgers. We compare the book to the movies, take a close look at the book‘s more problematic elements, and more. 🤷🏻♀️ Link to listen in bio!
1. Anything by Neil Gaiman. The Wrath & the Dawn books. The Lunar Chronicles. The list goes on and on.
2. Favorite comedies are all pretty much Seth Rogan comedies or other such dumb comedies. I also thoroughly enjoy White Chicks. Fantasy movies are always great for distractions.
3. Favorite podcast, hands down, is Lore. TV shows include GoT, My 600-Pound Life, Hoarders, Catfish (yes I love trashy reality TV)
4. Reading (obvs), also cross-stitch
1. The Counselors in Training shot from 20 or 25 feet away from the targets! Almost all of them hit the targets.
2. Belfast, NI
3. Apple pie
4. Definitely
#friyayintro #camplife #camplifeisthebestlife #friday #archery
Cool local things - footie and The Beatles
No queues in shops on campus!!
Love any sort of fresh salad
Prefer print but read a lot of ebooks too
👋 happy Friday people
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1. I love all sorts of music and don‘t feel guilty for any of it. Even when I‘m belting out Disney songs ... in the car ... with the windows down. 🤣 Sometimes people do stare. But it‘s okay, I just smile and sing “let it go!” 🎶
2. 🍂 autumn
3. Urban fantasy/paranormal
4. I had a grilled chicken sandwich.
5. Happy Friday 👋🏻
1. They all have pros and cons... I‘m only emotionally connected by music - not pop or country- so I‘ll go with the decade that‘s gave us 80‘s alternative.
2. Real life book.
3. Older... by over a decade
4. No
5. Anyone else want to answer?
Thanks @Gissy for the tag! #friyayintro
1. Scorpio, although I'm more like a Libra
2. I went to work today even though I had a terrible hacking cough. 😷😷😷🤧🤧🤧
3. Stiff by Mary Roach
4. Working, and sneaking glances at my phone to check NCAA basketball scores.
5. 😍😍👌👌👍👍❤❤❤
#friyayintro @howjessreads
1. No.
2. went to see Aloe Blacc at the Melbourne Zoo as part of their Zoo Twilights series. I got to see some otters before the show 😍, tonight (Saturday) I‘m off to see Up! in a park so it‘ll be picnic time again! And then a post break up lunch with some gfs on Sunday.
3. Action movies & IG 🤪
4. Cape Schanak Lighthouse, Cape Liptrap Lighthouse & the Split Point Lighthouse
5. Favourite mythical creature? #friyayintro
1. I wish...but my daughter's allergic to 🐕
2. No plans whatsoever
3. Bullet journaling
4. California, Texas, and Seattle
5. What's your favorite dessert?
#FriYAYintro @howjessreads
Most of the selfies I have taken have been with my husband when we have gone somewhere together. We send them to our daughter to annoy her (she doesn't think anyone should take selfies). This is the most recent one, taken at Nyhavn in Copenhagen.
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1. Toy Story
2. Yes! I drove an RSX-S for ten years. There is no other thrill quite like dropping into 6th speed!!!!!
3. The Golden Compass
4. Helping out the parents; they are both having medical issues (but on the mend! Yay!)
5. Done! 💖
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@howjessreads
1. Literary fiction
2. Beets
3. Paternal grandmother would be 128!
4. Scotland
5. 🕺
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1. I have 2 - literary fiction and romantic suspense.
2. Anything canned! Except tomatoes, which are technically a fruit...
3. 108, 97, 97 and 94.
4. Minnesota. 😨
5. 🕺
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1. Right now, nonfiction, but it changes
2. I like most, but I guess turnips
3. My fathers parents would be 100 and 98, but they died in the ‘00s. My mother‘s parents died before I was born.
4. My grandmother New Mexico, my grandfather eastern Kentucky.
5. My mom likes the Hustle, so I‘m doing that for her! 🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻
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1. Fiction - chick lit
2. Onions
3. The oldest any of them lived to be was 75 and that was my mommom. She died in 1991. They would all be over 100 now.
4. All within the area (or really close) that I was raised in and live now. My mom and her parents went to the same high school. It closed and a new one was built. I graduated from there as did my kids.
5. 💃🕺
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@howjessreads
1. I loved Freaky Friday! Jodie Foster😍
2. Onion rings😋
3. Went to see Phantom of the Opera with my girls yesterday, so I'm obsessed with this music right now.
4. Alias Hook for my #lmpbc read.
#friyayintro @jesshowbooks
1. Nothing comes to mind. My daughter came home - all is right in my world.
2. Went to the beach with my daughter today. Enjoying some girl time this weekend since the boys are away.
3. Crown
4. The Perfect Couple
5. Hope you feel better!
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@jesshowbooks
@TheReadingMermaid ROCKS for offering this #FT13Giveaway 🤘🏻🎸🎶😎 Thanks, because I need a pick-me-up today!
Favorite genres: nonfiction, true crime, mystery/thriller/suspense.
And the winner is... @CSeydel 🐰🎉!
It must be good karma for running the #shortstoryswap. 😉
I‘ll tag you in a separate post with the list of my Top 25 favorite books! You can choose any book off the list & I‘ll send it to you post-haste.
Thanks for playing & for participating in the #freakyfridaychallenge posts!
The time has come to choose the winner of the #freakyfridaychallenge!
Moxie takes her Litsy responsibilities very seriously.
Gotta find the perfect name! Just the right one...
I‘ll be posting the winner of the #freakyfridaychallenge at some point tomorrow morning! Sorry it‘s taken me so long. 😱😳 I‘m making this public statement to ensure that I actually do it & get it done!
Prizes (for this & to @TheKidUpstairs ) will go out before the week‘s end. Pinky promise.🤞🏻
#procrastinatorsunitetomorrow
1. Laurel 2. I listen to podcasts more than anything. Looking forward to hearing "Dimly Lit," a podcast about books hosted by a former student! 3. Last day for teachers where I teach is May 29. 4. I am finishing my 25th year teaching speech/debate/drama in the same classroom! 5. "All the world's a stage. We have our entrances and our exits..." Congrats to all the grads! #friyayintro @jesshowbooks
1. Yanny
2. Lately audiobooks. I do love my podcasts and music though!
3. My daughter finished yesterday. My son has his last class 6/8 & last exam 6/18
4. Daughter- just completes 12th grade & graduating High School in less than 2 weeks. I honestly have no clue how that went so fast!!, Son is finishing 11th grade!
5. I don‘t know who is graduating so congrats to all that are!
#friyayintro
@jesshowbooks
1. Laurel 2. Have never listened to an audiobook. Listened to Serial, couldn't believe there was no answer at the end 😳, So I guess it's music! 3. High school in eastern Iowa is out May 31. 4. My youngest of 4 is starting her senior year at the Univeristy of Iowa. 5. I only personally know 1 other Litten... Happy graduation to any Littens that happen to read this 👍 #friyayintro @jesshowbooks
1. Had vacation this week, & didn't get half the stuff done that I wanted to do 😕
2. Books, of course!
3. Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny
4. A cheeseburger
5. Everybody 😊
#Friyayintro @jesshowbooks
#freakyfriday Stats:
Books Read: 9 + started 2 more
Pages Read: 2,937
Favorite Book: Bellweather Rhapsody
Least Favorite: A Room With A View (but I still liked it so it‘s a worst of the best kind of thing)
The best part was reading books I may not have ever picked up otherwise. Spending a month as @monalyisha was a blast! 👯♀️You‘re my bookish sista from another mista... or my mandarin duck twin 🦆I‘m stalking your book choices now! 😘😎
#FreakyFriday Stats:
Books Read: 5
Pages Read: 2330
Favorite Book: Once Upon a River
Least Favorite: A Discovery of Witches
The best part of this event, for me, was getting to know such a diverse group of strong women: Margo Crane; Lynn McBride; Jane; Lily; Snow Flower; & Diana (not to mention all of the outspoken, powerful & clever side characters) - &, of course, @MeganAnn !
Girl, you & I are like two mandarin ducks.
🦆🦆 Or something.😅🙌🏻
I‘ve had a lot of fun with the #FreakyFriday challenge this month. I read 9 of the 11 books I hadn‘t previously read and enjoyed a couple rereads. I‘m still working on The Ring and Outlander, but I have every intention of finishing them in May.
Thanks for the great list, @Amy-Laura and thanks for organizing the swap, @Clwojick and @monalyisha !!
The time is almost upon us! At the stroke of midnight, you & your match will re-swap & you‘ll be you & again & they‘ll be them. Also, all of your books will turn into pumpkins! 😱🎃 That‘s how #freakyfriday works, right? I‘m not confusing it with anything else? (Just kidding; I like a good pumpkin pie as much as the next girl but that‘d be horrible.) Seriously, thank you to everyone who participated for all of your willingness & positivity! 💖👇🏻
And I‘m wrapping on #FreakyFriday. I made it through all the new to me books ( except Outlander, which I will definitely finish)! I had so much fun with this “swap” and I even found a few new favorites to recommend the next time we do this. Thanks @Karkar for sharing some of your favorites with me! You have very good taste in books! And Thank you @Clwojick and @monalyisha for hosting!!
#FreakyFriday status
Didn't finish @PenguinInFlight s list, but I think I'm in good company ?
I would have done better had I not been traveling this last week.
❇ I finished 6 books (1 audio)
❇ I dropped one
❇ and I'm halfway through 2 more (1 audio)
And for the flight tomorrow, where I hope to catch up a bit, I've got "Daughter of Smoke and Bone" in both formats.
THANK YOU @monalyisha @Clwojick for hosting this fun event.
My beautiful #masterpiece 🎭🎨 I'm not even going to make excuses for this drawing. It's beautiful 😂😂😂 Also...the figure on the left is a woman...that is a smudge, not a detached penis...#imnotfixingit
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@monalyisha @Clwojick @BookFreakOut
Haha... can't believe I'm posting this horror! Lol!
I just started the Talisman and this was the opening scene so here you go! Lol #freakyfridaychallenge
@dariazeoli @monalyisha @Clwojick
This #freakyfridaychallenge gave me an excuse to use the drawing tools in the Notes app!
Poorly, I might add 😂
Can you believe April‘s almost over? It‘s time for our last (!) #freakyfridaychallenge.
Draw a picture of something in your current #freakyfriday read. Snap a photo of your “masterpiece.” If you‘re anything like me, you may need to write a description for your creation to be remotely identifiable (😅) OR you can submit it without comment & make your match/other Littens guess!
Open only to pre-registered #freakyfriday participants. Details below.
Here‘s my current list of books I‘ve finished for #FreakyFriday so far. @Tiffy_Reads has recommended some stunning books for me, and an awesome variety of genres. As you can see, I‘m hooked on the Woman‘s Murder Club series again. ♥️
How many have you read? How many do you have left? With only a week left in April what‘s the one book you hope to read before April is over?
@monalyisha
How‘s everyone doing? Are you enjoying yourselves? Have you found any new favorite books? Have you read anything you‘ve loved to hate? 😉 Have you read more or less than you thought? Are you planning to continue your list in the coming month(s) or are you done once April is?
We‘d love to hear from you! 🖤
I‘ve read fewer titles than anticipated (despite ignoring all my other reading obligations; sorry book clubs! 🙈) & will be reading into May.
I‘d probably name my future pet Arsinoe from Three Dark Crowns. She was my favorite of the triplets in that book. It‘s also been my favorite pick so far!
I‘m trying not to cheat and use a Harry Potter character, even though that series was on @jenniferw88 list! It‘s cheating since I already want to name all my pets after HP characters! 🤪
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