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I finished this book 📕 this morning and convinced the husband to watch the movie 🎥 with me tonight. Now, I am usually a generous film critic when the story is a book I have read: I want to be surprised with delight that the director has captured something new, perhaps. But alas, the movie fails to capture the sweet angst and bitterness of trying to repair their broken childhood. Read the book, the movie can be skipped. ⬇️

I can‘t say I enjoyed this exactly— it is sad and heartbreaking— but I very much appreciate old people main characters and their choosing life on their own terms. Well done Ella, you feisty grandma you. And as fearful/nervous as I was about how it would end, I admire how it was portrayed; “well done.”

Post from April 2020 with Esther in her Easter scarf modeling for my review of this read. I just saw the movie last night (Sept 2021) Beautiful cinematography! Much passion, a very “artsy” film (or at least compared to what we usually watch LOL) Certainly not a “book is better”; more like a solid balance of the two art forms. #Book2Movie #LitFilm

LOVED THIS. I cried. I needed a good cry. (Who doesn‘t?) #ClassicsClub #inthehouseforyears #finallyread #thanks to a bloggerfriend who mailed it to me in 2012 #DogsofLitsy #EstherAssisting #Griff #WHPG #Estheris11onthe17th #WiaN #ONECategory #WiaN2021 #WhatsinaName #MothersandDaughters #FathersandDaughters #AssistedSuicide #Cancer #Book2Movie

Got this gorgeous new cover of A Christmas Carol and just had to read it again...
#HolidayRead and a #Book2Movie adaptation

#WinterGames #Elfies
@Bookwormjillk @StayCurious @Clwojick

Adding another #HolidayRead
This was a heart-warming tale of love, long over due. Somehow I was expecting a crime/thriller and not a romantic drama.

The awesome part is this is also a #Book2Movie adaptation. And I believe I've found my next #HolidayMovie

#WinterGames #Elfies
@Bookwormjillk @StayCurious @Clwojick

I enjoyed this one a lot more than Red Dragon.
The thing I enjoy most is that the FBI and police is really ignorant about the killer.
A lot of times authors seem to miss that the protagonist doesn't have to know everything about the killer.

#TBRRead #Book2Movie
#WinterGames #Elfies

@Bookwormjillk @StayCurious @Clwojick

I always try to work this one in this time of the year.
I love how it warms my heart each and every time I read it. Now I must just decide which one of the movies to watch.

#HolidayRead #Book2Movie #WinterReadsBingo
#WinterGames #Elfies

@Bookwormjillk @StayCurious @Clwojick

This was the sweetest book ever!
I can‘t believe I've never heard of it before now.
Will have to reread it every year form now on.
And the BEST part of all... It will be a Movie next year!

#HolidayRead #Book2Movie #WinterReadsBingo
#WinterGames #Elfies

@Bookwormjillk @StayCurious @Clwojick