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Just before Halloween, over-the-air ABC showed the movie Hocus Pocus Two. We really liked it 🎬💝.

To my surprise, it was completely different from the book!

Which one I liked more 📚🤔🎬 is difficult to say...

Neither is perfectly good as part one, yet I enjoyed both continuations.

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Watching Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker returning as Winifred, Mary, and Sarah Sanderson was splendid fun.

My two favorite parts of the movie are:

1- The beginning, showing the Sanderson sisters as children and how they truly received their book.

2- And the ending, showing Winifred's love for her sisters is genuine.

I also liked the message of the movie, that magic is meant to be shared.

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With the book, it was equally as nice that the whole cast returns (or are mentioned).

While the novelization to the original was in the 3rd POV. This continuation is from Poppy's POV (Allison's and Max's daughter). I liked this.

Loved having an update on “all“ the original characters, which seemed respectful to the original story.

The very ending, which was focused on the Sanderson's Book of Shadows was surprising and interesting.

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AnnCrystal Weighing movie VS book...

The original movie and the novelization are amongst my five-star favorites ⭐⭐🌟⭐⭐.

With the continuations:

While the book had the extra add of a blooming relationship between Poppy and a character named Isabella, both movie and book focus on the power of friendship.

Yet I believe that there was something important missing from both versions.

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AnnCrystal The 1st. movie had a powerful foundation based on siblings. It is what I always loved about the movie.

The movie continuation kept this only with the Sanderson sisters.

I would have like a kid sibling mixed somewhere into both continuing storylines. Like maybe with the book, have given Isabella a little sister and kinda turn the tables on the first character setup...

For this reason, both continuations will always be four stars...sorry.
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Thank you @TheSpineView for creating this fun play-card & for the tag 💕 🐎💝.

1 - Equally beautiful...there's something magical about both. Each makes me stop a moment and appreciate the change in atmosphere. 💕🌇🌞🌛🌆💝.

2 - just finishing Hocus Pocus Two (the book version). Trickery, heuristic, and friendship.

#Two4Tuesday

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dabbe Thanks for the new word, “heuristic“! 🧡🍁🤎 2w
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AnnCrystal Thanks for the tag @dabbe, an interesting word indeed 😉👍💝. (edited) 2w
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Thank You @debinhawaii for #5JoysFriday, hope that by next Friday, one of your own joys is that you're all well 🙏💝.

Thank you 🌺💝 and @TheSpineView for the tags 🐎💝.

1- Halloween was fun & peaceful 💕🎃💝

2- Today begins day one of Day of the Dead (Dia De Los Muertos) 💕👻💝.

3- Completed eight books for #HauntedShelf and & #SpookOWeen...never really tracked how many books I read per-month, yet this feels like a record for me.

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AnnCrystal 4- November is Native American Heritage Month!

5- Over-The-Air ABC showed Hocus Pocus part two (on the Sunday before Halloween)! That was an unexpected Halloween treat!

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I won't complete part two of Hocus Pocus until after Halloween...yet, not bad if I do say so myself, eight books! 📚🥳.

Total this second half: 210
Total overall: 660

Thanks for Hosting #HauntedShelf @PuddleJumper 🌺💝.

Thank You Team Leader of the #BlackCatCrew @BookwormAHN🐈‍⬛💝.

And another thanks to @TheSpineView 🐎💝 for hosting #SpookOWeen.

I've truly had a Spooktacular time!

Happy Halloween!

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Thank You @TheSpineView for creating this fun play-card 🐎 & for the tag ☺️👍💝.

1 - I try to dress up every year, even if it is low-key-simple...like saving a new pair of character slippers for Halloween night 😂.

2 - Hocus Pocus! Probably won't finish part two until after Halloween. Part one (a novelization of the original movie) was Spooktacular 🧹🧹🧹🎬📚💫!

#Two4Tuesday

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I have not read many novelizations, yet this is the best written one that I have come across.

Novelizations can seem impersonal. Events of the story more reported...told instead of shown. Even my Batman Begins book felt this way in some parts.

A.W. Jantha did an exquisite job taking Hocus Pocus from movie to book. Beautifully written and given respect on the page. There is true feeling weaved into the storyline all the way through.

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AnnCrystal This is nearly identical to the movie, with a few minor exceptions: hidden in next three comments 👇 4w
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1- Some omissions (When Thachery was pushed away by his father and called a beast after he was first transformed into a cat. And the cop who wasn't a cop).

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2- Although the flow remained intact, there were a few differences in a few scenes and/or dialogues.

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AnnCrystal 3- And a few additions to the storyline (the most interesting was when Winifred recalled a cemetery wedding from over 300 years ago just before the bus driver scene. And the name Elizabeth Sanderson as being logged as the last mistress of the Sanderson's Book of shadows which is added to the scene when Allison opens the book in Max's room to try and find a way to help Binx).

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AnnCrystal The “added scenes“ must help build a foundation for the new continuation...which I should begin tonight 😉📚💝.

The movie and the novelization are equally excellent...now both are favorites amongst my movie-AND-book favorites.

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#SpookOWeen

Hi @TheSpineView 😊💝.

This gave me three Bingo Board Prompts: Cat, Pumpkin, and Potion.

Thank You 🐎💝.

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Hi @BookwormAHN 🐈‍⬛😊💝.

This book gave me two search words, Pumpkin and Cider equalling 30 points.

I managed to read another four hours between the 23rd - 26th, equalling 40 points.

Plus 20 extra points for being a, Spooky or Autumn themed read.

These 90 points together with my previous 210 points all totals to 300 pts.

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Thank You.

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Hopefully I will read the remainder of part one (which is the original movie) tonight.

Read while enjoying an Empanada 🥟 💝. Been meaning to snap a photo of my mama's pumpkin Empanadas every weekend...they usually vanish before I get a chance 😋😂💝. We didn't make apple this year, only pumpkin.

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PageShifter Now I want to have one too 😭 4w
AnnCrystal @PageShifter 💕🥟🤔🪄 wish I could wiggle my nose and Bewitch one to you 😉🫂💝. 4w
TheSpineView I love pumpkin anything! That looks yummy! 4w
AnnCrystal 💕 Thank you @TheSpineView 🥟🎃👍💝. 4w
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Been meaning to read this for every Halloween since I purchased this book!

It has been a few years since adding this book to my library 😂.

I always run across it in November and say, “Oops, I guess next year.“

One of my favorite movies 🎬📚💝...this is the year I discover if the novelization and sequel are just as good 🤞😉💝.

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