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Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption | Stephen King
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Amiable
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1. “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption” by Stephen King
2. “Night” by Elie Wiesel
3. “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” by Katherine Ann Porter
And a bonus:
4. “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” by Thornton Wilder

Thanks for the tag, @dabbe !
#ThreeListThursday
#TLT

dabbe #2: 😭 #1: only saw the movie, and I loved it--I need to read the novella! And the others are on the TBR! Thanks for sharing. 💚💙💚 7d
AmyG I forgot Night. 🙌🏻 7d
Amiable @AmyG Elie Wiesel was a professor at Boston University when I was an undergraduate there. 7d
AmyG Did you ever get to see him speak? Wow. 7d
Amiable @AmyG Yes, but I was too young to appreciate the experience. What I wouldn‘t give to do it over again. 7d
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BarkingMadRead
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I hit my 3rd reading goal and the most books I‘ve ever read in one year!

AnneCecilie Congratulations 🥳📚🥳📚 4mo
IndoorDame Woohoo!!!🎉🥳🙌 4mo
Deblovestoread Well done! 🎉🎉🎉 4mo
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dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 4mo
Ruthiella Well done! 👏👏👏 4mo
TheLudicReader Impressive. 4mo
CaliforniaCay Amazing! Congrats! 🎉🎉🎉 4mo
Meshell1313 🙌🎉 4mo
TheBookgeekFrau Congratulations!!! 🎊🎉 4mo
Gissy Amazing 📚📚📚💪🤩 🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏 4mo
Roary47 Yay! Great job! 💛 4mo
mrp27 🎉📚🎉📚🎉 4mo
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BarkingMadRead
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Listening during our long drive home

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Eggs
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LaraReads My favorite movie of all time! 9mo
Eggs @LaraReads So memorable and wonderful characters💙 9mo
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ChelseaM6010
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#VolumesAndVocals
Day 3. Folsom Prison Blues
#FolsomPrisonBlues

LaraReads Great prompt choice! 10mo
Eggs Perfect 🤩 10mo
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dabbe
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#MayMontage
#Incarceration
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

One of my top 5 fave movies as well. “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” 💙💚💙

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️😱🖤 10mo
Eggs Great story/movie 😢 10mo
dabbe @Eggs 😍 10mo
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dabbe
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#ThemedThursday
#Redemption
@dabbe

Couldn't resist also having the word in the title. 🤗

Read4life This is my pick, too! 11mo
dabbe @Read4life Great minds think alike! 🤣💙🤗 11mo
LoverOfLearning This is funny. I have never read a King novel before but I did just add Shawshank Redemption to my Libby account to listen to soon! What a coinicidence. 11mo
dabbe @LoverOfLearning I think you'll love it. The movie is spectacular, too! 😊💙🤗 11mo
LoverOfLearning @dabbe I'll have to watch it! I've seen parts here and there, it's definitely popular. 11mo
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intothehallofbooks
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Finished the first novella in the Different Seasons collection and absolutely loved it. I‘ve always loved the movie, and I think it was a great adaptation of King‘s story. I loved Andy and I loved Red, the narrator. I love that Red is telling us Andy‘s story in his own voice. I could visualize the entire thing in my head and the end made me happy. Just solid writing by the greatest and a pleasure to read.

Up next #readingStephenKing: Apt Pupil!

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InkedBookworm13
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"It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying."

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InkedBookworm13
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Maxwell is keeping me company this evening. There's nothing like curling up in a comfy chair with a blanket, a dog and a book. ❤️
#DogsofLitsy

RedxoHearts So cute! Looks like your pup loves stuffed animals as much as my girl 1y
InkedBookworm13 @RedxoHearts That mess is thanks to my other dog Dexter. He's a puppy and the one that loves all the stuffed toys. I try to put them in their toy basket and he just drags them all out immediately. My entire living room is covered with them. 😆 1y
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Blueberry
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-The Shawshank Redemption
-Nim's Island

#SundayFunday @ozma.of.oz

@NataliePatalie

NataliePatalie Oooh so many to choose from 1y
Q84 Both of these are great! It's so hard to choose and sometimes I don't realize they were books 😆 1y
kaysworld1 Nims Island I absolutely love it 1y
BookmarkTavern Those are some great choices! Thanks for sharing! (edited) 1y
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mom_of_4
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Mehso-so

Strange little book but good. It was a slow read for me.

Blueberry Awesome book and movie. 1y
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mom_of_4
Shawshank Redemption | Stephen King
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Such a beautiful day outside today decided to sit out here a read. Enjoying the cool weather.

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Cinfhen
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Pickpick

Slim but powerful- a book that‘s been on my #TBR FOREVER - like a lot of King‘s stories, this feels a bit dated but the character development is so strong and King manages to create such a tight tale in under 120 pages. Impressive 🙌🏻

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VioletMoonBooks
Shawshank Redemption | Stephen King
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MommyOfTwo I just found out he wrote that now I need to read it. 2y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect choice! 2y
Eggs Well done 2y
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Addison_Reads
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#SavvySettings @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Sticking with my King answers, the #Library is a key setting in this novella. Although the character of Brooks gets a bigger focus in the movie, but I'm okay with that because I love his character.

Eggs Well done 2y
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freeatlast1137
Shawshank Redemption | Stephen King
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A quick little novel about Andy Dufresne and the man who can get you things inside of the prison Shawshank.

I‘m really enjoying Stephen King, I‘ve always avoided his novels because he writes horror, and I‘m not a fan of being scared, but his novel/novellas are worth it.

Blueberry The Green Mile is another great one, not horror but not novella. 2y
freeatlast1137 @Blueberry The Green Mile is definitely one of my favorites. ☺️ 2y
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Billie84

“It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

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Juliev
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Pickpick

I watched and loved this movie years ago. This short story (about 150 pages) was so great. Most people know the story of Andy Dufresne who is wrongly convicted of murdering his wife and lover and his time spent in Shawshank maximum security prison.

Blueberry 💜 book and movie 2y
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GinaKButler
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Staci
Shawshank Redemption | Stephen King
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Pickpick

This was really good. Better than the movie!

Blueberry Which is a high standard! 😃 2y
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TracyReadsBooks
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Friday morning coffee with a book. ❤️

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EadieB
Shawshank Redemption | Stephen King
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#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView Thanks for the tag!

1. Shawshank Redemption - Andy Dufresne works to build up a prison library to provide books 📚 for the inmates.

2. I would like to see Watch Her Fall by Erin Kelly about the ballet Swan Lake made into a movie 🎥

Can you play? @kspenmoll @DivineDiana @Aims42 @Reviewsbylola @booksellerofyourdiscontent

kspenmoll Such a great movie!!! 3y
TheSpineView You're welcome and Thanks for playing! 3y
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Daisey
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I was having a hard time choosing an audiobook to start as I did a few random farm jobs this morning, but I settled on this novella that‘s been on my TBR for way too long. I think the movie is fantastic and have been meaning to read the original story for years. It was a great story, and even knowing what would happen, I thoroughly enjoyed listening straight through the entire thing as each detail was revealed.

#audiobook #BooksOnTheFarm

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CaitlinByTheBook
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Wow! This short story now published as a stand-alone novella was great! I read it in one sitting last night. King‘s writing here was so different than in Carrie. I look forward to continue reading his books this summer and fall! 5⭐️

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Birdsong28
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Very good. Even though I am not a fan of Stephen King I absolutely love the film of this and so I thought I would read the book it was based on. This book is only 111 pages long but every page is full of rich detail and drama that you just want keep reading. A must read for everyone who loves the film.

#Scribner
#SimonandSchuster

ravenlee I just recently read this (hubby kept saying how weird it was to see me reading Stephen King) and really liked it. I only sort of know the movie, but was impressed how they followed and where/why they diverged. Both well done. 3y
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Twainy
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Pickpick

📚 Stephen King packs so much into 128 pages!!

It‘s a tough read!

The movie follows the book ... they have differences but nothing that‘s a deal breaker!

What do those posters mean to him .... freedom. 😈

SUCH A GREAT MOVIE!! The book adds a little but come on, it‘s 128 pages!! Still it feels like a lot more!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👇🏻

Twainy Red (the guy who can get you anything in the shank, a crap prison in Maine) tells the story of Andy Dufresne. One of the 10 inmates Red ran across who he feels was innocent. Andy is a banker convicted of killing his wife & her lover, a golfer Glen Quentin.

The Mangler makes an appearance. 🥺
3y
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Danielle145
Shawshank Redemption | Stephen King
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💛💛💛💛💛 ‘Remember that hope is a good thing, Red, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies‘

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ctelford
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Pickpick

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - bow down, Stephen King. Despite it being classed as one of his “short stories”, it doesn‘t stop you experiencing every ounce of emotion, every smell & every punishment dished out in the Shank. SK has an uncannily beautiful way of writing, it is fair justice that one of my favourite films is now also, a favourite book.

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paulareadsallthetime
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Pickpick

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was a good book. King did a great job of telling the story. It is the story of Andy Dufresne who has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his wife and her lover.

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BooksCoffeeNurse
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1. Bill Hodges 2. That‘s hard to say... too many good books with too many good endings. 3. I‘m reading a couple books this week. 📚❤️ #playtagshare

Tattooedteacher Bill Hodges! Agreed. 3y
BooksCoffeeNurse @Tattooedteacher I love Bill Hodges! 🥺❤️ 3y
Reagan Omg Bill ❤️ 3y
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BooksCoffeeNurse
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Up next on my list. 😁 I‘m hoping it will be a quick read since it‘s only 111 pages. ❤️

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Alora
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Just finished this book and watched the movie for the first time!
I loved both of them!
The few changes to the movie didn‘t take away from the book in my opinion!
It was very well made and followed the book very well!
I can always see King‘s writing so vividly in my mind while I‘m reading his books!

#bookreview #tbr #fabulousfebruary #stephenking #readathon

AmyG The movie is one of my most favorites. 3y
DogMomIrene I love both too! The audiobook version of this story is excellent as well. 3y
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BooksCoffeeNurse
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Yay! My goals for the #AnyWayYouReadathon are to finish Pretty Girls, finish Misery, and read The Shawshank Redemption. ☺️ I do work tomorrow and all weekend, so we shall see. 😁📚💕 Readathon starts now!

Eggbeater Yay! Thanks for joining us! Misery is a favorite of mine. 3y
BooksCoffeeNurse @Eggbeater Yeah I‘m about halfway through. I love anything Stephen King. ☺️ 3y
kimmypete1 Thanks for joining! 🤩 3y
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mromain20
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"Get busy living or get busy dying."

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Mccall0113
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Took a tour of the Mansfield penitentiary in Ohio today with the family. Pretty neat.

keys_on_fire I‘ve been there for the haunted penitentiary tour at Halloween, but have never been there for the day tour. I‘d like to! 4y
Mccall0113 @keys_on_fire we‘ve heard about the haunted tour. The only option we had was a self guided tour. It was fun. 4y
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JamiQuan
Pickpick

I found this book after watching the movie countless times.l, it‘s one of my favorites movies and now books. As in SK style he has a way to take you on a journey that is full of hard truths and often ugly facts so well written that well I want more! The book in audio edition went by quicker than I wanted, I had to do it again

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JulAnna
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#Gratefulreads
Many people don‘t realize that this excellent movie was based on a Stephen King novella.
This adaptation does a wonderful job of staying true to the tone and message of the novella.
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”

Lucy_Anywhere Thanks - I learnt something today. I loved the film, but didn't realise it was based on a book! 4y
erzascarletbookgasm I loved this movie too! 4y
JulAnna @Lucy_Anywhere It is a good collection of four novellas. It surprises people who think they know SK‘s writing that none of these novellas are horror per se. The Body is also included in this book, it was the basis for the movie Stand By Me. 4y
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TheEllieMo
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Confession - until planning my photo challenge posts for today, I never knew that the film The Shawshank Redemption was based on a short story by Stephen King

#Prison #LetsTravelAugust
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@OriginalCyn620

OriginalCyn620 Me neither! And I‘ve never seen Shawshank! 😮 5y
jb72 I‘ve not seen the movie, but I really enjoyed the book. 5y
Birdsong28 Love the movie my all time favourite!! 😍😍😍😍📚📖 5y
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Martta
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Here is the inside quote closer. I love this so much! My cousin is so awesome to paint this for me! ❤ 😍

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Martta
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Another image of the chest. On the inside there is a quote from Stephen King.

Texreader 💜💜💜 5y
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Blueberry
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1. The Shawshank Redemption and/or Clue
2. Indiana Jones
3. All the American National Parks (geeky?)
4. Mystery series
5. English and sign language

#premondayvibes @pepsicola
(Pepsi is my favorite soda).

goodbyefrancie Love the National Parks! We have been to 31 and are adding three more this year. 5y
Blueberry @goodbyefrancie 💜💙💚 5y
RamsFan1963 @Blueberry I watched Clue last night, for the first time in years. I forgot how much unadulterated fun the movie can be. 5y
Blueberry @RamsFan1963 haha, I love it! 5y
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Abooker18
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Pickpick

So good

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Buechersuechtling
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Picture from: https://goo.gl/images/7sPg8p

Scrolling through the books @kaye read I saw this. Dialogue with my significant other.

Me: “The film »Shawshank Redemption« is based on a book. By Stephen King.”
Him: “Hunh?”
Me: “»Shawshenk Redemption«. »Die Verurteilten«.”
Him: “Sure. Could‘ve told you that.”

Who else knew❓For me, this was completely new. And I‘m such a chicken, so I don‘t read any of his books. But … This one isn‘t scary at all. ?

Kaye Thanks for the tag , and although I‘m nowhere near as big a Stephen King reader as lots of people in here are, I‘ve read a handful that sort of go from this type, which really isn‘t scary , to the ones I have yet to read , such as IT and others too numerous to mention. King‘s books are surprising, as some may just have a strange story or character, some may just be mildly spooky, to others such as IT and The Stand which are probably really scary ? 5y
PickwickPlockPlock 🙋 I knew. I think it's based on a short story? 5y
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Gina
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Ummmm... Awkward... yeah I got nuthin...

sprainedbrain 😂😂😂 5y
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Gennic
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Finally finished this, I saw the movie years ago and never got around to the book I‘ll now. Such a great book! I loved it so much. I‘d recommend this anyone who would read it!